Electors in more than 17 African countries accounted for a significant proportion of the estimated 3.7 billion people who voted worldwide in 2024. Now that the election year is drawing to a close, many Africans…
Zimbabwe Summons US Envoy in Protest Over Sanctions…
Zimbabwe on Friday summoned the US ambassador to Harare to protest US travel sanctions imposed on its envoy to Tanzania over his alleged role in a military crackdown that left six civilians dead last year.…
Namibia Inaugurates New Port Terminal
Namibia’s president, Hage Geingob has inaugurated a new $200 million dollars port terminal at Walvis Bay, an extension that will double the country’s port capacity from 350,000 containers to 750,000 per year. The inauguration ceremony…
Ghana Police Retrieve Body Parts in Famous Kidnap…
Police in Ghana have retrieved body parts from the home of a suspected kidnapper in the country’s Western region. The suspect, one Sam Wills, is being held on charges of kidnapping three girls in Takoradi,…
Nigeria Military Denies Burying Soldiers in Secret Mass…
The Military in Nigeria has denied allegations that it has been secretly burying soldiers killed in the Boko Haram terrorist war. According to the report by Wall Street Journal at least 1,000 soldiers killed since…
Mogadishu’s Mayor Dies in Qatar While Getting Treatment…
The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has died of wounds sustained in a suicide bomb attack on his office, government officials said on Thursday. He died in Qatar where he had gone for treatment after…
How Brexit Will Favour Nigerians – UK
The British Government has said Nigerians will gain from Brexit as it was an opportunity of opening its relationship with the rest of the world. The British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms Gill Atkinson…
Somalia: Mogadishu Mayor Dies After Al Shabaab Attack
The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has died in Qatar of wounds sustained in an Al-Shabaab inspired suicide bomb attack on his office, government officials said on Thursday. Abdirahman Omar Osman, a naturalised Briton died…
Nigeria’s Insecurity: Un Ex-Top Official Sends Message To…
Ibrahim Gambari, Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has advised the Federal Government to make war against terrorism one of its priorities in the country’s foreign policy. Gambari gave the advice on Wednesday…
Cameroon: Detained Ambazonia leaders say lawyers under threat…
The ten detained leaders of the Ambazonia separatist movement say lawyers defending are under constant threats from security forces. The detained leaders who embarked on a hunger strike yesterday to request government to reveal the…
Nigeria: El-Zakzakey Group Suspends Street Protests
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria do hereby announce to the general public and the international community that it has temporarily suspended its Free Zakzaky street protests to allow for some new openings into the resolution…
Sudan Suspends Schools After Student Killings
Lessons in all Sudanese schools have been suspended indefinitely amid mass demonstrations over the shooting death of schoolchildren at a rally. The ruling military authorities ordered schools nationwide to close their doors from Wednesday, the…
South African Develops App to Help Farmers Sell…
A pioneering app in South Africa lets investors, eager to benefit from rising global beef demand, buy shares in a cow from their mobile phone for as little as 576 rand ($41). Self-styled “crowd-farming” company…
Ghana ‘Exports Rosewood Timber Illegally to China’
About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is mostly used to…
Mauritania Frees Blogger Sentenced to Death Over Facebook…
Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed Mkhaitir, a blogger sentenced to death in 2014 has been freed by authorities in Mauritania, press rights group Reporters Without Borders, RSF, have disclosed in a July 30, 2019 statement. He…
US Congressional Delegation Led by Nancy Pelosi visits…
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in Ghana as the head of a Congressional delegation to hold discussions with President Nana Akufo-Addo Monday and to address Ghana’s lawmakers on Wednesday. While in Ghana, Pelosi and…
Top UN Official Discusses Elections on First Visit…
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General James Swan made his first visit to the Horn of Africa on Sunday. Swan discussed the importance of building Somaliland’s achievements and the impending elections. “We also…
Ghana: 895 Trafficked Ghanaians Rescued
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), Mrs Cynthia Morrison has revealed that about 895 victims of human trafficking have been rescued since 2017 by the ministry in collaboration with the Ghana Police…
Kenya: Bomet Govenor Joyce Laboso is Dead
She had been admitted at the facility's ICU last week after her arrival from India where she was receiving treatment. Laboso had left the country on May 29 for the United Kingdom (Royal Madden NHS…
