Africa
Jacob Zuma received a 15-month sentence last year after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry.Former South African President Jacob Zuma has…
Officials blame violence on a splinter of the FRUD group,…
President Mohamud has launched a campaign against the al-Qaeda-linked group…
Ilorin, Nigeria — In September 2021, when Akpos Malafakumo walked into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) office in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, to apply for a new passport, she had no idea it would take 10 months to get it. After filling the forms, an officer there…
The negotiations were due to be led by AU representative and ex-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in South Africa.The African Union-led peace talks proposed for this weekend to try to end a two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been delayed for logistical reasons, two…
On September 30, Burkina Faso military leader President Paul-Henri Damiba was deposed in the country’s second coup in a year, as army Captain Ibrahim Traore took charge, dissolving the transitional government and suspending the constitution. The 34-year-old Traore said on Friday evening that a group…
Rights groups say Rwanda has one of the worst human rights records in sub-Saharan Africa and accuse the government of using authoritarian means to stifle dissent.A Rwandan court has acquitted three journalists who had been detained for four years on charges of spreading false information…
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, 48, is outspoken on social media, often trading barbs with opposition and talking foreign policy.Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has apologised to Kenya after his son, a general, tweeted threats to invade the neighbouring country and capture its capital in two weeks. “I ask…
The WHO also issued a medical product alert asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharma goods from the market.The deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia from kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the…
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