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 […]
Kais Saied, a political outsider and retired law professor, was sworn in as Tunisian president on Wednesday after he won a landslide victory in this month’s election. Saied’s win delivered a heavy blow to a governing elite accused of failing to improve living standards or end corruption since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy after […]
Guinea’s president Alpha Conde has become the latest African head of state to seek an extension his legal mandate, a move that fuelled protests in the country this week. If Conde tries to run for a third term in 2020, he would be copying from an established playbook in Africa, where incumbent presidents have sought, […]
South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar on Saturday arrived in Juba to try and save the fragile peace agreement as the mid-November deadline for forming a government with President Salva Kiir approaches. The two men “will meet behind closed doors at the presidential palace today,” said a spokesman for Machar’s SPLM-IO party, Manawa Peter Gatkuot, […]
Mozambique’s main opposition party, Renamo on Saturday accused the government of violating a recent peace agreement by using “violence” during the general elections this week and called for the election to be cancelled. “The ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) (…) has violated the cessation of hostilities agreement, which states that violence and intimidation must not […]
Citizens of the North African country, Tunisia, will go to polls on Sunday to vote in legislative elections amid political and economic challenges. Last month, contenders from Tunisia’s major political blocs, including the moderate Islamist Ennahda and secular Nida Tounes Party, suffered a shock loss in the presidential vote. Two political outsiders – independent academic […]
Cameroon’s main opposition leader Maurice Kamto walked free from jail Saturday after a military court ordered his release at the behest of long reigning President Paul Biya.Kamto was greeted by hundreds of supporters as he was driven away surrounded by a dozen-strong escort of klaxon-blaring vehicles.The opposition leader was released after nine months imprisonment, and […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that all political parties who contested in the 2018 harmonised elections are welcome to take part in the Political Parties Dialogue (POLAD). Presenting his State of the Nation Address in Harare on Tuesday, Mnangagwa said: _I am happy with the progress being made under the ongoing Political Parties Dialogue and […]
Authorities in Uganda are searching for five Eritreans who disappeared from a hotel where their team was playing in a soccer tournament. The missing players could be planning to seek asylum, which some Eritrean sports players have done in the past while traveling abroad. Tens of thousands of Eritreans flee their small Horn of Africa […]
The presidency in Nigeria on Tuesday dismissed reports that president Muhammadu Buhari’s government would seek a constitutional amendment to allow him seek a third term. In a statement posted on social networking site, Twitter, the presidency called out ‘so-called support groups, staging street demonstrations’ asking Buhari to extend his time in office. ‘‘There are NO […]
Tunisians will take to the polls on October 13 in the second round of the presidential election that pits jailed Nabil Karoui against retired law professor Kais Said. Said and Karoui’s success in beating established political leaders including the prime minister, two former premiers and a former president, during the first round, was seen as […]
Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday urged political parties in his home region to work together to serve the Oromo people. Abiy, who was representing his Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) at a meeting of political parties from the region, added that the ‘time when political parties work against each other should come to an […]
The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of turning Nigeria into a joke, adding that there is nothing to celebrate except pains, division, incompetence, banditry, tribalism, and hopelessness as the country turn 59. CUPP said that Buhari’s leadership style and incompetence is a mockery of the efforts of the nation’s […]
Leader of the opposition MDC, advocate Nelson Chamisa has said that Zimbabwe has two presidents at the moment. He said that one of them was elected by the people whilst the other one came from the courts. President Chamisa: “We have two Presidents, one who came from the people and the other who came from […]
Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo wants President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition chief Raila Odinga out of the 2022 political equation to save Kenya from a possible acrimonious contest. Mr Kabogo said the involvement of the two leaders in the next poll would negate their push to unite the country through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) […]
Lagos-based lawyer Inibehe Effiong on Thursday said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo does not have the constitutional power to waive his immunity. Effiong said this in a statement while reacting to Osinbajo’s vow to waive his constitutional immunity to challenge what he claimed to be false allegations against him and his office in the media after Timi […]
Somalia and Kenya have agreed to normalise ties, following months of tension over a maritime border dispute. In talks mediated by Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Kenyan and Somali heads of state agreed ‘to restore relations to previous status’ and ‘take diplomatic steps to build confidence between the two governments’. Kenya and Somalia have […]
Algeria on Wednesday jailed its once-untouchable spy chief and three other members of the ruling elite, including Said Bouteflika, the former leader’s junior brother, as the army seeks to quell mass protests demanding a purge of old power brokers. The military court in Blida, south of Algiers, issued 15-year terms for “conspiring against the army” […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has allayed fears that Ghana will be in turmoil during and after the 2020 general elections. He said the country will be intact after next year’s elections though the atmosphere is a little tense. He said despite the negative picture some people posted on social media about the threat to […]