Algeria’s Bouteflika-era union chief jailed for graft
Algiers – A former Algerian union head was sentenced Monday to a decade in prison for corruption, his lawyer... Read more
15 Nov, 2022
Clashes in eastern DRC as envoy pursues ‘dialogue’ initiative
Goma – Troops and rebels traded heavy fire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, a military... Read more
15 Nov, 2022
Ghana president fires junior minister over graft allegations
Accra – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday fired his junior finance minister over corruption allegations made in an... Read more
14 Nov, 2022
Somaliland parties snub president after vote storm
Mogadishu – The main opposition parties in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland say they will no longer recognise... Read more
14 Nov, 2022
‘We’ll shoot you’: violence stalks EU-Libya migrant deal
Rome – Leona Blankenstein couldn’t believe what she was hearing when the Libyan coastguard threatened to blast her small... Read more
14 Nov, 2022
Cyril Ramaphosa brushes aside calls to quit
Johannesburg – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday brushed aside calls for him to resign over an alleged... Read more
14 Nov, 2022
Africa’s largest democracy goes to the polls amid rising insecurity
Freedom C. Onuoha, University of Nigeria and Oluwole Ojewale, Institute for Security Studies Africa’s biggest election will be held... Read more
13 Nov, 2022
Tunisia’s once-vibrant democracy is on its deathbed: but it can be saved
José Ignacio Hernández G., Harvard Kennedy School One of the lessons the 21st century is bringing home is that... Read more
13 Nov, 2022
Thousands of Islamists renew protests against UN in Sudan
Khartoum – Thousands of Islamists gathered on Saturday for the second time in two weeks to protest “interference” by... Read more
13 Nov, 2022
Presidential term limits will be hard to scrap in Kenya – here’s what it would take
John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State University A member of parliament in Kenyan president William Ruto’s governing coalition created a... Read more
12 Nov, 2022
