As part of an official policy against illegal mining, the South African government has declared that it is not going to help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the North West…
NEWS: Ethiopia has “no motive to harm” Egypt…
Ethiopia Prime minister Abiy Ahmed stated the country has "no intention to harm" neighouring Egypt and Sudan. Comments that come after months of negociations over the Renaissance Dam, situated upstream of the two countries, have…
Ivory Coast: African Court of Justice Deems Gbagbo…
The African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights dominated on Friday to reject the exclusion of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo from the upcoming presidential elections of October 31 — ordering the Ivorian nation to…
Guinea: Opposition urges ECOWAS intervention as vote looms
Guinea’s primary opposition leader called on neighboring West African states to help to give up a political crisis in Guinea where President Alpha Conde is running for a third term in the October elections. The…
NEWS: Ethiopia set to charge over 2,000 suspects…
Charges have been filed towards greater than 2,000 suspects in connection with the assassination of Oromo activist-singer Hatchalu Hundessa, and the ensuing violence, the Ethiopian government introduced Thursday. The killing in early July precipitated sizable…
NEWS: ECOWAS may lift Mali’s sanctions on Friday
The West African bloc ECOWAS will probable figure out on Friday whether or not to carry probably crippling sanctions imposed on Mali after last month's coup, its mediator said. The mediator, Nigerian former president Goodluck…
NEWS: Cameroon records 9 cholera cases
At least 9 cholera instances have been tested in southwestern Cameroon, with one death, nearby media pronounced Wednesday. “The cholera outbreak declared in Buea is very regarding due to restricted get right of entry to…
NEWS: Protest in court over trial of Moroccan…
Protesters gathered outside the Casablanca Appeal Court on Tuesday, as Moroccan investigative journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi appeared to be questioned by an examining magistrate. Radi was first tried in March and was…
NEWS: Rising Terrorism Sees 310,000 Mozambicans Displaced
The escalating extremist insurgency in Northern Mozambique has displaced heaps of thousands of people. The rebels have recently stepped up assaults in Cabo Delgado province, seizing the strategic port of Mocimboa da Praia, which they…
NEWS: Outcry as killer soldiers bag 10 year…
A video showing soldiers executing two ladies at shut range, kneeling and blindfolded, alongside with a woman and a baby two years ago had prompted massive outcry in Cameroon. But there is even extra outcry…
NEWS: Ramaphosa wants stronger UN role in confronting…
With the seventy fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly taking region this week, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday harassed the urgent want to support the U.N position in confronting challenges. It…
Mauritania: Floods from heavy rains in Nouakchott
Residents of quite a few neighborhoods in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, observed their toes in the water on Sunday after a rare abundance of rain. Driving used to be impossible in some neighborhoods whose…
Uganda: 6 bodies recovered from river
At least six bodies of humans who drowned in Sezibwa River, Central Uganda when their boat capsized had been retrieved on Sunday. Among the deceased is a mother and her year-old baby, police spokesperson Hellen…
NEWS: Guinea begins the distribution of voting cards…
Distribution of balloting cards started on Saturday, in what will be one of the most watched elections in Western Africa. In key opposition neighbourhoods, some have argued the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) had voluntarly…
NEWS: Ethiopia accuses members of the opposition in…
Ethiopia has introduced it will have interaction legal hobbies towards opposition leaders, along with Jawar Mohammed et Bekele Gerba of the Oromo Federalist Congress members. Terrorism and telecom fraud-related prices that relate to the lethal…
NEWS: Somalia appoints new PM, postpones the model…
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has appointed Mohamed Hussein Roble as the country's new Prime Minister. Roble, a newcomer to Somalian politics will have to fill the vacancy left by means of the former PM…
NEWS: Court set date for Zimbabwean Author Tsitsi…
Required to appear in courtroom on Friday, award-winning and famend Zimbabwean author, Tsitsi Dangarembga — dealing with expenses for disturbing the peace and inciting violence following her arrest at anti-government Harare-based prohibited protests in June.…
NEWS: Hero of Hotel Rwanda denied bail in…
Paul Rusesabagina, whose movements during the 1994 Rwandan genocide inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda", was once denied bail by a Kigali court docket on Thursday. Rusesabagina, a critic of the Rwandan government, has been living…
NEWS: Manhunt for more than 200 naked and…
Ugandan forces are looking for greater than 200 naked inmates, who escaped in a jailbreak on Wednesday. Many of the 219 escapees stripped off their yellow uniforms to avoid being identified as they fled into…
