Category: Africa

A court in Guinea will rule on Tuesday on whether a former prime minister and three ex-cabinet members charged with economic crimes will be released on bail. Ibrahima Fofana and the other top officials of the ousted government of President Alpha Conde were detained on April 6 on charges of embezzling public funds. Fofana served […]

Mourners are gathering at Kenya’s parliament to view the body of the country’s third post-independence President Mwai Kibaki, who died last week at the age of 90. Kibaki’s casket, draped in the national flag, was earlier in the morning escorted by a military procession to parliament where it will lie in state from Monday to […]

Kenyan leaders are paying tribute to former President Mwai Kibaki whose death was announced on Friday. Deputy President William Ruto, who also served as a cabinet minister under Kibaki, has called him a great son of the country. Opposition politician Musalia Mudavadi, who served as a deputy prime minister under Kibaki, paid tribute to “an […]

The UN has expressed concern that Malian authorities have denied its human rights investigators access to a village where hundreds of people were killed. “We are extremely concerned that Malian authorities have still not granted UN human rights investigators access”, said a statement by the UN Human Rights Office. It said “time is of essence […]

South Sudan’s main opposition political party says it is dissatisfied with recent appointment to a unified armed forces command structure. The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) says there were a number of “serious violations “in naming the commanders of various army, police and security services unit. The appointments were announced by President Salva […]

The Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court is due to hear its first trial on Tuesday, seven years after it was formed. The hybrid court – staffed by both international and Central African judges and prosecutors – was set up to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the past two decades. The […]

The Kenyan government has confirmed the deportation of the French chief executive of one of the biggest oil marketers in Kenya amid a fuel shortage crisis. Rubis Energy Kenya CEO Jean-Christian Bergeron was the first person to be sanctioned since Kenya’s energy regulator said it would act against oil marketers creating what it says is […]

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has formed a unified armed forces command structure that integrates opposition commanders into the armed forces. It follows last week’s deal between President Kiir’s and opposition groups on the sharing of key positions in the army and security forces. The president’s faction has a 60% representation in the command structure […]

At least 30 people have been killed during two days of attacks by gunmen in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the Red Cross. It happened in Ituri province, which along with neighbouring North Kivu, are under an official state of siege in efforts by the government to stop the attacks by […]

Former Guinean Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory and three ex-cabinet members are due to face embezzlement charges before a court in Conakry following their arrest last week. Kassory, former Defence Minister Mohamed Diane, ex-Environment Minister Oye Guilavogui and former Hydrocarbons Minister Zakaria Coulibaly will appear at the Court of Repression of Economic and Financial Offences (Crief) […]