The UK has put specific sanctions on people connected to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) because more proof of war crimes in the Darfur region has come to light. After a BBC Verify investigation found that executions in El-Fasher were the fault of a high-ranking RSF officer, the move was made. El-Fasher is a place […]
Ecuador has made a bold move to strengthen its national security apparatus and this was done via the official declaration of the Muslim Brotherhood qas a terrorist group under Presidential Decree 239. This action indicates the growing world-wide apprehension against extremist movements and indicates a strong desire of Ecuador to be part of the international […]
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 of the defense staff. The decision is in line with the military tradition that when new service chiefs are appointed, […]
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 Pistorius has declared that his country wants to remove its troops from Mali more quickly while maintaining order. The UN […]
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 United States and the United Nations. After uncovering a plot to steal donated wheat that was intended for those in […]
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 been using this notorious mercenary group as one of its most influential foreign policy tools. Following the weekend mutiny, an […]
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 turning off the lights at 10:00 p.m. and climbing into their bunk beds. An unknown number of attackers, who are […]
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 gas canisters to disperse opposition supporters in the city. This took place on Sunday evening. On Twitter, the primary challenger […]
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 in the cost of living that helped spark violent riots last year. The West African nation’s economy, which had never […]
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 against humanity” between the months of March 2021 and June 2023. During a news conference on Thursday (June 22), Sonko’s […]
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 Tax (VAT) on sanitary pads. Import tax and VAT have made sanitary pads expensive in the country. According to the […]
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 Wednesday, June 21. Restructuring debt and reducing poverty through the realignment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 […]
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 114 per cent. Muhammad Shehu presented the reports of the reviewed salaries package to Nasir Idris, governor of Kebbi, a […]
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 place in the nation’s capital before voting began on Saturday, June 24. Additionally, voters will choose the members of the […]
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 surrounding most of Africa. While attending the second Kenneth Kaunda Memorial Public Lecture on Saturday in Pretoria, South Africa, he […]
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 the populace. The revised draft of the constitution includes a number of significant modifications, the most significant of which are […]
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, a country in East Africa. According to police, militants linked to Islamic State reportedly shot those people outside the school. […]
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 conclusion. A total of 108 people were reported missing after the incident. According to survivors, the wooden boat was carrying […]
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 mission to Russia and Ukraine in the middle of June. Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, mentioned a month […]
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 Twitter that the South African president would meet Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, on Friday. Reportedly, the South African president […]