Politics

Northern leaders rejected a call by Malam Yerima Sani, who served as the Governor of Zamfara State from May 1999 to May 2007, asking Bola Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, to negotiate with terrorists and…

Bola Tinubu, the 16th and current president of Nigeria, has requested the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to give confirmation about the newly appointed service chiefs. Tajudeen Abbas, the 15th and current…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s eastern region was the scene of an attack on Wednesday that claimed the lives of at least eight people, including five women and two children, according to local…

Kenya said on Wednesday that it will delay the reopening of its border with Somalia as a response to recent attacks on Kenyan soil that were blamed on radical Islamists affiliated with Al-Shabaab. It was…

Salva Kiir, a South Sudanese politician who has been the President of South Sudan since its independence from Sudan in 2011, has pledged for the country’s first election.  On Tuesday, South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir…

Witnesses reported that a fighter plane was shot down on Tuesday in Khartoum, which is the capital city of Sudan and is now in a state of civil war. The fighting and artillery fire targeted…

On Monday, the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, put an end to months of stressful uncertainty by announcing that he would not seek a third term in office in the next year. This announcement paved…

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent the Baltic countries into panic by inviting the notorious Wagner Group to train its military. This comes just days after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary group, took…

At least 48 people have been murdered after what appears to have been a loss of control by a truck that caused it to crash into other vehicles and pedestrians at a major intersection in…

The Defence Headquarters of Nigeria has ordered several top military generals to retire before Monday. This directive came in a memo dated June 26, issued by Maj Gen Y. Yahaya on behalf of the chief…

Germany, which has approximately one thousand soldiers stationed in Mali, is currently pulling them out of the country and is to finish pulling out all of its troops by May 2024. German Defence Minister Boris…

According to local officials and researchers, at least 700 people have perished as a result of hunger in the northern Tigray area of Ethiopia in recent weeks following the cessation of food aid by the…

Russia has been boosting its influence in Africa via Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary group, to contain conflicts from spiraling into a full-fledged war. There are thousands of Wagner group fighters in Africa.  The Kremlin has…

On most evenings, Godwin Mumbere and his fellow students at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, which is located on Uganda's western border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, quietly study and sing together before…

The day after the presidential election in Sierra Leone, which went off quite peacefully and the votes for which are still being tallied, the police in Freetown made an announcement claiming they had deployed tear…

On Saturday, citizens of Sierra Leone are heading to the polls to vote in hotly contested presidential and legislative elections. These elections take place in the midst of worldwide pleas for peace and a crisis…

A formal complaint consisting of 170 pages has been submitted against the President of Senegal, Macky Sall. His primary opponent, Ousmane Sonko, has submitted a criminal complaint in France alleging that the defendant committed "crimes…

On Thursday, a group of protestors stormed the parliament in Ghana, demanding that sanitary pad taxes be removed. Protesters said that the government of Ghana should remove the 20% import tax and 12.5% Value Added…