The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the countryâs premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
Breaking: Burundi President Nkurunziza dies of heart attack
The government of Burundi has announced the sudden death of President Pierre Nkurunziza. According to a statement on Twitter Mr Nkurunziza died today after suffering a heart attack. He was aged 55. âThe government of…
Politics: Malawi’s president appoints new election boss
Malawiâs President Peter Mutharika has appointed a new electoral commission chairperson ahead of a presidential re-run. The countryâs Constitutional Court in February ordered a fresh presidential election be held within 150 days after annulling last…
AfDB Launches Independent Investigation into its President
The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced Thursday evening, the launch of an independent investigation into allegations of prevarication against its president, Nigerian Akinwumi Adesina, the only candidate for re-election to a new term. The Abidjan-based…
Botswana coronavirus: Prez tests negative again, schools reopening
Botswana remains one of Africaâs least impacted countries, one of a handful with less than 100 cases of COVID-19. Government has in the past month taken drastic measures including a strict lockdown. President Eric Masisi…
Senegal president’s brother tests positive for coronavirus
The brother of Senegalese president, Macky Sall has announced he has tested positive for Coronavirus. Aliou Sarr who is the mayor of GuĂ©diawaye is being treated at the Dalal Diamm hospital in Dakar. His wife…
Tanzania â President Magufuliâs pandemic response
Tanzanian President Magufuliâs response to the Covid-19 pandemic bears many of the hallmarks of his leadership to dateâbut magnified. As has proved true elsewhere, the crisis has cast the status quo in a newâand sharperâlight.…
Tanzania’s President banks on prayers as cases drop
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has continued to attend political rallies around the country this week, as he seeks a second term during the COVID-19 pandemic. He insisted that his government was winning the battle against…
Ghana: President Nana Akufor turns down foreign AID…
The Ghanian President Dr. Nana Akufor, has promised to steer his Country out of the foreign aid in any form calling it a pandemic which will never take Africa to any development heights. âWe donât…
Botswana coronavirus: president to observe third quarantine –…
President Eric Masisi left Gaborone on Tuesday for Harare where he is attending a meeting of the Southern African Development Community, SADC. His spokesperson confirmed that extraordinary circumstances had forced him to travel as the…
Botswana president talks farming
Botswana president Eric Mokgweetsi Masisi on Saturday gave social media users what he called a peep into âMokgweetsi the farmerâs life.â The president shared photos of himself on his farm where he rears animals â…
Buhari Receives Madagascar COVID-19 Herbal Medication from the…
President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday received samples of the Madagascar herbal drug which the African country claimed could cure COVID-19. The drug was delivered to Buhari by President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau at the…
South Sudanâs president wants violence to end, for…
Kiir made his call for peace in a speech delivered at the SPLA Day in Juba on Friday. He said that South Sudanese now have to feed themselves and to stop counting on the World…
Madagascar president dismisses ‘all critics’ would they doubt…
President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina has delivered a scathing verdict of persons increasingly speaking against the countryâs purported traditional cure for COVID-19. In an interview with KnowAfrika, Rajoelina said his country will continue to administer…
Breaking: President says one person infected 533 with…
A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana's Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a broadcast late on Sunday. Ghana's…
ECOWAS affirms election of Guinea-Bissau president
Months after Guinea-Bissauâs disputed presidential election, leaders in the West Africa bloc, ECOWAS, have acknowledged the victory of Umaro Sissoco Embalo. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Economic Community of West African States said…
Togo opposition chief arrested for declaring himself president
Togoâs main opposition leader, AgbĂ©yomĂ© Kodjo, has been arrested. Agbeyome, a former Prime Minister was arrested on Tuesday, April 21, at his home and taken to the gendarmerieâs Central Research and Criminal Investigation Service, according…
I will not put Dar es Salaam on…
Dar es Salaam. Tanzanian President John Magufuli has ruled out the possibility of locking down the country's commercial hub, Dar es Salaam, even as the novel coronavirus continues to spread. âThere are those who have…
S. African president unveils a $26 billion program…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced a 26 billion U.S. dollars relief package to support the economy and the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic. In a special address to the nation, Ramaphosa announced…
