Keir Starmer recently asked people to watch his keir starmer live press conference strait of hormuz crisis, scheduled for April 1, 2026, at 9:00 AM. The announcement, which was shared on X, quickly gained traction, and 10 Downing Street also amplified it, highlighting the importance of the address amid rising global tensions. Why This Press […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) set up a regional military force called the Monitoring Group. Its main goal was to bring peace and stability back to West African countries that had been affected by civil wars and political unrest, highlighting the Nigeria ECOMOG missions cost in sustaining such efforts. ECOMOG was at […]
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 […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that there have been significant changes in Zimbabwe since his ascendancy to power. He speaks two years after Zimbabweans marched on November 18th, 2017, during the military assisted transition which resulted in the demise of Zimbabwe’s founding leader, the late former president Robert Mugabe. ED, as Mnangagwa is popularly known […]
Leader of the opposition party, Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP), Kisinoti Mukwazhe has died, at the age of 49. Mukwazhe died on Sunday night at Karanda Mission Hospital after a short illness. He died after being admitted complaining of a sore throat. Mukwazhe is survived by his wife Shaderah and seven children. Mourners are gathered at […]
Hama Amadou, the main opposition leader in Niger’s last presidential election recently returned from medical exile in France but has since hauled into jail. Multiple news portals said the former Speaker of the National Assembly, appeared before the Niger High Court after he was summoned on his return. He was escorted by security official to […]
Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF, the four-member ruling coalition governing Africa’s second most populous nation, on Saturday announced an agreement in principle by its top leadership to merge into one party. The decision was announced after an Executive Committee meeting of the leadership. The decision is however subject to final endorsement by the EPRDF’s […]
Mozambique’s largest opposition party Renamo has lost its bid to annul last month’s election results after the country’s top court threw out its challenge, according to a court judgement seen on Friday. Renamo, the rebel group turned opposition party, lodged an application after it lost the October 15 election to the long-ruling Frelimo party. It […]
Twenty-three MPs have accused DP William Ruto of undermining President Uhuru Kenyatta and demanded his resignation. They said the DP has been attacking government officials and working round the clock to scuttle Uhuru’s handshake deal with ODM leader Raila Odinga and undermine the yet-to-be-released Building Bridges Initiative report. The lawmakers, drawn from Jubilee, ODM, Ford […]
An Egyptian government minister slammed a UN expert who warned that former president Mohammed Morsi’s death in June could amount to a “state-sanctioned arbitrary killing”, but said Cairo was investigating. “The former president (Morsi) died in the courtroom in front of everybody,” Egyptian Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Omar Marwan told AFP, rejecting a statement issued […]
Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the United States have thrown their weight behind Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, kicking against any plans to ridicule him by some people in the country. The leaders who were reacting to some of the news making the round in Nigeria said that Osinbajo has contributed greatly to […]
The Amhara Democratic Party, ADP, the governing party in Ethiopia’s Amhara regional state has backed plans by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to reconstruct the ruling coalition into a united national party. Announcing the decision, a top regional official, Lelaku Alebel Addis wrote on Twitter: “Cognizant that it intertwines Ethiopianism with identity & [because] it is […]
The president of the electoral commission in Guinea announced on Saturday that the legislative elections, which have been delayed for months, will take place on 16 February 2020. The same chairman of the electoral commission had proposed in September the date of 28 December. The opposition and its representatives on the commission had denounced an […]