Politics

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…

On the evening before the so-called summit for a New Global financial Pact, French President Emmanuel Macron met with his colleague from Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, for a discussion. This meeting took place on…

Muhammad Shehu, the chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), an agency of Nigeria, has said that the salaries of elected Nigerian politicians, judges, and public office holders will be increased by…

On Tuesday, June 20, Sierra Leone's incumbent president, who is seeking re-election, held his last rally in the nation's capital, Freetown's Lumley Beach. A demonstration for Julius Maada Bio was the last one to take…

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015, has charged African leaders with the full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a free trade area…

On Sunday, June 18, at 6:00 p.m. UTC, polling booths in Bamako, Mali, closed so that election officials could begin tallying the votes. Voting on a new constitution had taken place throughout the day among…

At least 41 people, including 38 students, one guard, and two members of the local community, have been killed in a deadly attack on Lhubiriha Secondary School in the border town of Mpondwe in Uganda,…

The majority of those who perished when a boat capsized in Nigeria's north-central region were women and their children, survivors and local authorities told the Associated Press on Thursday as search efforts came to a…

According to an announcement made by the South African presidency on Tuesday, the African leaders who are attempting to help bring an end to the war reached an agreement on Monday to send a mediation…

Cyril Ramaphosa, a South African businessman and the President of South Africa, arrived in Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe, on Friday, as part of an African peace mission. The South African presidency said on…

On Thursday, the conflict between two opposing generals in Sudan entered its third month with no end in sight. Planes attacked a town in the south for the first time, and the regular army accused…

South African lawmakers have voted in favour of a controversial new health insurance bill that aims to provide free universal health care to millions of poorer citizens. On Tuesday, South African MPs agreed to the…

According to a note that was released on Monday evening by the State Department, the United States has modified its travel advice for Uganda following the promulgation in May of the "Anti-Homosexuality Law 2023", which…

According to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the region, an attack on a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) resulted in the…

Bola Tinubu, the current president of Nigeria, has urged Nigerians to be patient after his decision to remove a popular petrol subsidy that increased petrol, transport, and food prices. On June 12, the Nigerian President…

An assistance organisation that is based in the United States stated that roughly $900,000 was taken from its programmes in the Congo by personnel of the organisation who colluded with others from outside the organisation.…