Category: Africa

Tanzania’s parliamentary speaker Job Ndugai has resigned days after clashing with the president over foreign debts. The speaker said his resignation was a personal and voluntary decision taken in the interests of the nation. But it came after he said Tanzania was at risk of being auctioned off following President Samia Suluhu’s announcement of a […]

A Kenyan MP was on Wednesday suspended from parliament for one day for distributing sweets to colleagues during a contentious debate. Fatuma Gedi said the “sugar levels of members had gone down” after the day-long session. She had been accused by colleague Ndindi Nyoro of distributing money as brides in the floor of the house. […]

Ugandan opposition leader and musician Bobi Wine has just released a song with the title “Ogenda”, a Luganda word that loosely translates as “You will fall”. The song is made directly for President Yoweri Museveni’s ears because he has turned his back on his word to bring democracy to the country. Bobi Wine said that […]

At least 21 schoolchildren in Nigeria have been rescued hours after they were abducted by armed groups in the West African country’s troubled northwestern region. In a statement police spokesperson, Mohammed Shehu, said that the children on Friday while they were moving from the Bakura area with their teachers to an Islamic school in neighbouring […]

Thousands of Sudanese pro-democracy protesters marched on the streets of the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday to demand a return to civilian rule. Demonstrations have become regular events since the military coup on October 25. The march took place hours before civilian Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok announced that he was resigning during a televised address. Hours […]

A day after the Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed also known as Farmajo ousted his Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, the tension is rising in Mogadishu. Heavily armed soldiers loyal to the Prime Minister were stationed around the presidential palace on Tuesday. Their move comes after Roble refused his suspension accusing his opponent of making […]

The Gambian Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found President Yahya Jammeh responsible for a spate of killings, rapes and torture during his 22-year long dictatorship and recommended that he be tried before an international tribunal. “Over a period of 22 years, starting from July 22, 1994, Yahya Jammeh and… co-perpetrators committed very serious crimes against […]

The former President Democratic Republic of Congo’s Joseph Kabila is planning to sue media house and a group of NGOs for what he terms an act of defamation and manipulation on an alleged report that siphoned off $138 million over five years. In the report entitled “Congo Hold-up”, Kabila together with his clan are implicated […]

The man who led the 2008 coup in Guinea and whose brief rule was marked by a stadium massacre returned to the West African country Wednesday after more than a decade in exile in Bukina Faso. Moussa “Dadis” Camara left Guinea in December 2009 after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt carried out by one of […]

The EU’s training mission in Mali (EUTM) handed over command to a new general. The ceremony took place on Tuesday in the Malian capital, Bamako, and was attended by a number of European ambassadors as well as Malian military brass. This move comes after the announcement that Mali has accepted one thousand UN peacekeepers from […]