Local Ethiopian officials claimed on Wednesday that Tigray forces have killed over 120 civilians in recent days as a result of battlefield losses, in what would be one of the deadliest massacres of Ethiopia’s 10-month war. Forces in Tigray have denied killing civilians. According to Sewunet Wubalem, the administrator for the Dabat district in Ethiopia’s […]
Ethiopia, on Thursday, said rebellious forces from the troubled Tigray region had been defeated in the neighbouring Afar region and had withdrawn. The Tigrayan forces, on the other hand, said they had just shifted troops to neighbouring Amhara as a part of their strategy. “The TPLF force has fled from Afar,” foreign ministry spokesperson Dina […]
Liberal RNI party of Morocco has secured majority seats in the parliamentary elections. On the other hand, preliminary results show co-ruling moderate PJD Islamists have faced a crushing defeat. The coalition party in previous two governments, PJD, has taken hold of only 12 seats. Billionaire agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch led RNI party has bagged 97 […]
Following a recent coup in Guinea, the West African bloc ECOWAS has decided to suspend the country, according to Burkinabe Foreign Minister Alpha Barry. Barry told reporters in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will send a mediation mission to Guinea on Thursday. Guinean special forces led by […]
The Group of Seven (the G7) countries, yesterday, urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to select and name a prime minister as soon as possible. This statement – asking Tunisia to return to the constitutional norms in which Parliament has a prominent role – was signed by the ambassadors of Germany, the United States, Britain, France, […]
Libyan authorities announced on Tuesday that a senior member of the Islamic State (IS) was apprehended in a raid south of Tripoli. The capture of Embarak al-Khazimi was “a great success for our security forces,” according to the interim government of the North African country’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. A warrant for Khazimi’s arrest […]
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has taken the government and six companies to court for asking thousands of workers to get vaccinated with one of the Covid-19 vaccines else be prepared to get sacked. The ZCTU, which is an amalgamation of 35 labor unions in the African country, is representing 189,000 workers who […]
After the government failed to compensate a young man injured in Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, he burned himself alive. The self-immolation of 26-year-old Neji Hefiane harkens back to the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor whose suicide by fire on December 17, 2010, sparked the Tunisian revolution, eventually toppling President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali […]
In a video supplied to an AFP correspondent on Sunday, Guinea‘s special forces claimed to have arrested President Alpha Conde and “dissolved” the country’s institutions, while the defense ministry stated it had repelled their attack on the presidency. “After taking the president, who is currently with us, we have decided to dissolve the current constitution, […]
The former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has been freed on medical parole – two months after he was imprisoned due to contempt charges. It was revealed by the government’s department of correctional services on Sunday that Zuma’s parole had been “induced by a medical report”. No details, however, were given about the nature […]
Tanzanian authorities have arrested numerous members of the country’s largest opposition Chadema party, marking the country’s latest crackdown on a group advocating constitutional reform. It came after President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government detained Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe on “terrorist” accusations, which his party described as an attempt by President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government to silence […]
The political situation in Somalia has been degrading since the country let in foreign involvement in internal matters and gave up its military power in search for regional control. Now as the things are reaching the edge of the cliff, the African Union has finally given up on making any improvements alone and seeks involvement […]
Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region looted warehouses, in recent weeks, belonging to a US humanitarian agency in the Amhara region – said USAID’s mission director, Sean Jones, in Ethiopia on Tuesday. “Rebels in the war-torn Tigray region have been looting aid warehouses, and the alleged thefts are a huge concern for humanitarians.” Jones said, “We […]
The Nigerian military claims that approximately 6,000 Boko Haram members have surrendered to authorities in the previous several weeks, including commanders, fighters, and their families. Hundreds of Boko Haram members have reportedly surrendered in Cameroon. According to the army, terrorists in Nigeria have surrendered in large numbers as a result of a fierce military onslaught […]
Gunmen kidnapped 73 students in yet another school attack in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, prompting authorities in Zamfara state to close all primary and secondary schools. The new kidnappings occurred just days after three other groups of hostages were reportedly freed after large ransom payments, raising hopes that other captives will be released soon. According […]
Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh has stressed the need for holding general elections in the country in December 2021 as per schedule. On Wednesday, Saleh held a meeting with Spanish ambassador to Libya Javier Garcia-Larrache in the eastern city of Gubba. During the meeting, he underscored the importance of holding the general elections in the […]
Leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Access Now, Mnemonic have called on social media platforms to preserve and archive all content relevant to provide evidence of incidents of human rights abuses in Afghanistan in view of ongoing crisis in the landlocked country. Issuing a statement, international human rights organizations have asked […]
Tanzania’s main opposition leader appeared in court on Tuesday to face terrorism charges in a case his party described as a politically motivated attempt to suppress dissent. Police allegedly tortured Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe in custody to force him to make a statement in the trial, which began under tight security with most journalists […]
On Monday, the son of Mozambique’s ex-president, Armando Guebuza, denied taking bribes to facilitate a $2 billion secret government loan that plunged the country into a financial crisis. Ndambi Guebuza, Guebuza’s eldest son, is one of 19 high-profile defendants on trial in Maputo’s high-security prison for alleged ties to a 2013 corruption case known as […]
Leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Freeman Mbowe, appeared in court to face “terrorism” charges – a case termed by his supporters “a politically motivated one”. His supporters claim that the move to chain Mbowe is aimed at crushing dissent. The Chadema party’s 59-year-old chairman has been behind bars since July 21. He was arrested […]