Category: Africa

A Ghanaian parliamentary committee has begun a public hearing into a controversial anti-gay bill. The bill proposed a five-year jail term for lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBTI+) people and a 10-year term for promoters and advocates of LGBTI+ activities. The first day of the hearing was tense – with both proponents and those against LGBT+ […]

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked the national defence minister, Jaime Augusto Neto. It comes just a day after the president fired the interior minister, Amade Miquidade. The president did not explained why he has fired the country’s top defence and security leaders. It’s believed that the decision has to do with the increased cases […]

The trial of Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu resumes on Wednesday in Abuja. The charges against Kanu, a British citizen, include calling for secession, knowingly broadcasting falsehoods about President Muhammadu Buhari and being a member of an outlaw group. During the last hearing in October, Kanu’s lawyers said they had an application opposing the charges, […]

The government of South Sudan says more than one million people have been affected by flash flooding this year. Disaster Management Minister Peter Mayen Majongdit announced this while receiving food aid from Egypt. Majongdit said the donated food items that includes sugar, rice, lentils and other items would be distributed to the affected people. Cairo […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday urged citizens to “move forward in unity” as the conflict in the north continues, saying the country was being “tested on many fronts” but had been strengthened. Ahmed’s government has had US aid withheld, plus envoys from the UN and African Union have pleaded for humanitarian access to […]

The Prince of Wales has spoken to Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate, who has been attending the climate conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Prince Charles said they spoke “about the role young people can play in ensuring the health of the planet for future generations”. Nakate is among the new generation of campaigners […]

Sudan’s military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has agreed to accelerate the return to a transitional government following talks with the United States (US) and the United Nations (UN). The UN special envoy for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said the discussions had yielded the outline of a potential deal to reverse last month’s coup, including the […]

The United States special envoy fort eh Horn of Africa is due in the Ethiopia capital for talks as the country’s civil war continues to escalate. Jeffrey Feltman is to meet government representatives a year after Tigrayan insurgents seized federal army bases, sparking a conflict that has since claimed thousands of lives. The US state […]

Ethiopia has said it is “extremely disappointed” over the US move to withdraw a deal for duty-free exports to the US. “We are extremely disappointed by the threat of Agoa [African Growth and Opportunities Act] withdrawal currently under consideration by the US government,” said the Ethiopian ministry of trade on Tuesday. The US plans to […]

Gunmen have kidnapped six people including four lecturers from the University of Abuja in Nigeria’s capital. The attackers invaded the living quarters of the university and abducted the victims in the early hours of Tuesday, said the police. It’s reported that they overpowered guards at the institution before they broke into the lecturers’ homes. On […]