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 […]
Botswana’s former president Ian Khama has hit back against corruption allegations, vowing to sue a lead investigator for defamation after he accused the ex-leader of syphoning-off billions in state funds. After a decade in power, Khama, 66, dramatically resigned from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in May – which has held power since 1966 – […]
Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping said on Tuesday that the appointment of the president’s eldest son as his top aide showed that the Central African country was turning into a monarchy. Noureddin Bongo Valentin, 27, was appointed co-ordinator of presidential affairs last week after his father Ali Bongo Ondimba’s chief of staff was sacked for […]
South Sudan’s exiled rebel leader Riek Machar is due to meet with president Salva Kiir in Juba on Tuesday. Machar’s visit was confirmed to Radio Tamazuj by the deputy spokesman of the opposition forces. The two protagonists are expected to discuss issues seen as critical to the realisation of the peace accord signed in September […]
The Gabonese presidency has defended the recent appointment of the president’s son as a top presidential aide stressing that it was more for his competence and experience than any other reason. The 27-year-old Noureddin Bongo Valentin, was last Thursday appointed the general coordinator of Presidential Affairs, to “assist the President of the Republic in the […]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is pressing on with plans of the new Prosperity Party despite an open opposition by a close ally and Minister of Defence Lemma Megerssa. Abiy on Sunday (December 1) met with other leaders of seven of the nine regions of the country to sign a document that officially marked the […]
Incumbent Namibian President, Hage Geingob, was re-elected with 56.3% of the votes cast, a very sharp drop from the 86% he received five years ago. The leader of the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), which has been in power since Namibia’s independence in 1990, was well ahead of Panduleni Itula, SWAPO’s dissident candidate, who […]
Namibia’s president Hage Geingob on Friday looked set to secure a second term with partial results from this week’s general election showing him leading with 56% of the vote. The southwestern African country held its sixth presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday amid economic woes and growing frustration against the regime. Geingob’s South West Africa […]
Sudan’s National Congress Party (NCP) on Friday condemned the government’s decision to dissolve it, and confiscate its assets, insisting that its ‘ideas will prevail’. The NCP which is ousted president Omar al-Bashir’s party accused the new “illegal government” of trying to confiscate its properties to help tackle Sudan’s economic crisis. “To rely on the assets […]
Sudan’s transitional government has abolished a law criminalizing immoral conduct and indecent clothing that rights groups criticize as targeting women and say is a holdover from the three-decade rule of toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir. Sudan’s sovereign council and cabinet announced early Friday that they would overturn the notorious Public Order Act, and also order the […]
Tanzania’s ruling party won more than 99 percent of seats in local elections boycotted by the opposition, according to official figures released on Monday. The vote on Sunday was for 16,000 seats for street and village leaders, positions that are highly influential in Tanzanian life. The long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President John […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday warned it had a standby military force poised to “re-establish order” in the event of a coup in Guinea Bissau. The warning came as the West African states rejected claims of ballot fraud in Sunday’s election despite claims by incumbent Jose Mario Vaz’s campaign team […]
Former Deputy Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Obert Gutu who is also the Vice President of the opposition MDC led by Thokozani Khupe has claimed that there are some quarters who were not amused when investors were coming to Zimbabwe. Posting on microblogging site, Twitter, Gutu said: Level of negativity within certain circles […]
Senior officials of MDC have said that they do not want another military coup in Zimbabwe. Since the return of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from China on Saturday morning, there has been speculation that the opposition is keen for him to lead another coup. Presidential Advisory Council member, Trevor Ncube claimed the MDC is praying […]
Tanzania on Sunday held local government elections, viewed as a test case ahead of national polls next year, with the main opposition party boycotting the ballot citing violence and intimidation. The long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President John Magufuli is therefore set for a sweeping victory. The nationwide polls, with over 19 million […]
Deputy President William Ruto has insisted that Kenyans should not be coerced to support Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. Speaking at Muraga Technical Training Institute in Tharaka-Nithi County on Saturday, Dr Ruto said Kenyans must be given enough time to read the BBI report in order to make an informed decision on whether to support […]
Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that he arranged VP Chiwenga’s hospitalisation in China directly with China’s President Xi Jinping. Mnangagwa revealed this to journalists after meeting Chiwenga’s at his home yesterday. I am confident that now the whole of Zimbabwe knows that the Vice-President is back and fit, and he is very clear and […]
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is back in Zimbabwe in time for the Zanu PF annual conference scheduled for 11 to 16 December in Goromonzi. He returned to Zimbabwe earlier today and was welcomed at the airport by a delegation of Chinese people and some relatives. With his return imminent, a Zanu PF insider commented earlier […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says he will not seek a third term in office at the end of his second term in 2023. The Nigerian Constitution sets a two-term limit for the president and state governors, but that has not stopped speculations that Mr Buhari may want to stay beyond 2023. Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was […]