Category: Africa

Authorities in Ethiopia’s Oromia region have accused a rebel group of killing more than 160 civilians and burying 87 bodies in a mass grave. The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), often accused by the government of being behind the killings of ethnic minorities living in the region, has not responded to the latest accusation. The army […]

Opposition MPs in Uganda have staged a walkout from Parliament in protest about the illegal detention and torture of Ugandans. On Thursday, more than 100 MPs, led by the opposition leader, said they would not sit back and watch their colleagues and supporters suffer. Two opposition MPs have been in detention since last year – […]

The Nigerian army says it has shot dead three suspected kidnappers in the southern state of Edo. According to army spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu, the men were part of a notorious gang that was intercepted as it set up an ambush on a major highway. Some of the attackers fled. The gang is believed to have […]

A Kenyan student is being treated in a hospital in the coastal city of Mombasa after he was flogged for eating five chapatis (a type of flat bread) instead of one allocated by the school. Teachers have been accused of beating up the boy with a hose-pipe but the school administration has blamed his fellow […]

Kenya has extradited two British nationals to the UK where they are wanted for murder. The men were arrested last week in Nairobi’s upmarket Kilimani area, said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. Kenyan police said an international arrest warrant had been issued against them for the 2019 stabbing to death of a 16-year-old identified as […]

Renewed ethnic violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur has led to loss of lives and displaced more than 15,000 people over the last week, said the UN. It said a personal dispute between two men from the Masalit ethnic group and Arab nomadic group sparked the conflict near the city of El Geneina. Armed […]

Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has come under attack from the opposition because of his frequent trips abroad. Hichilema on Wednesday made his ninth foreign trip since taking office in August. His latest trip is a two-day visit to South Africa for talks with his counterparts Cyril Ramaphosa as well as attending a book launch. But […]

A VIP entourage in Mozambiaque was swept away in a river in western Mozambique as Tropical Storm Ana batters the country. The government of Tete province and Tete city’s mayor were returning from surveying damage wrought by the storm when the four cars in their convoy were whipped away by the River Rovubwe – though […]

Mali’s junta has called on Denmark to immediately withdraw a contingent of troops deployed to the West African country nation as part of an international counter-terrorism force. The junta – which took power in a coup in 2020 – said the deployment of about 90 Danish soldiers had taken place without its consent. However, Denmark […]

Reports claim cars belonging to the presidency have been found riddled with bullet holes near the home of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Kabore has reportedly been detained by mutinying soldiers. Some troops in the West African nation have demanded the sacking of military chiefs and more resources to fight Islamist […]