October 11, 2017
A Kenyan High Court has ruled that the election board should include another candidate in presidential poll re-run ordered by the Supreme Court.
Ekuru Aukot, polled less than 1 percent in presidential elections held in August but Justice John Mativo said, “I find nothin...
February 9, 2017
Punches have been thrown in South Africa's parliament as opposition MPs tried to disrupt the State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma.
Members of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters' party (EFF), all dressed in red, scuffled with security guards who ejected...
January 14, 2017
Ivory Coast announced a deal Friday night to end a standoff with soldiers who staged a mutiny last week, though the terms were not confirmed and it was unclear whether security would be fully restored.
The deal was reached after tense negotiations in Bouake, the country...
January 14, 2017
Hundreds of protesters demanding jobs clashed with police in several Tunisian towns on Saturday, blocking the route of visiting President Beji Caid Essebsi in one region, on the sixth anniversary of the country’s revolution.
Local residents said protests that erupted in...
January 12, 2017
The party of Gambia’s outgoing president, Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, has filed an injunction to stop the inauguration of the incoming President elect Adama Barrow, country’s chief justice Emmanuel Fagbele has confirmed to Anadolu Agency late...
June 9, 2016
UNhuman rights investigators accusedEritrean leaderson Wednesday of crimes against humanity including torture, rape, murder and enslaving hundreds of thousands of people and called for the case to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
Europe announced this we...
February 5, 2016
A confidential report to the United Nations Security Council found there have been attempts to smuggle weapons from Democratic Republic of Congo through Rwanda to rebels in Burundi where a political crisis threatens to spiral out of control.
The report by experts who...
February 3, 2016
Despite overseeing the near-total destruction of Africa’s newest country, South Sudan’s liberation hero-turned-rebel leader Riek Machar says that his war is just. In an in-depth interview at his residence, Machar tells SIMON ALLISON that while he has some regrets, he...
January 15, 2016
The death toll in Burundi may have been greatly underestimated, with latest numbers almost double that of the United Nation's December estimates, a political analyst specialised in Burundian affairs has claimed.
Burundi's deadly violence erupted after President Pierre...
January 15, 2016
Tension in the country is at its highest since the 1994 Rwanda genocide
Douce, 22, was standing with 4 other women when the men – dressed in police and military uniforms, armed with rifles and pistols – burst into their compound. They forced the women inside, firing...
December 11, 2015
Heavily-armed gunmen launched coordinated assaults on three army barracks in the Burundian capital on Friday leaving at least a dozen dead in the worst unrest since a failed May coup.
Army spokesman Colonel Gaspard Baratuza claimed that 12 attackers were killed and 21...
December 10, 2015
South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has warned of further inevitable split of his faction of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), saying there are those “behaving like dogs” who want to take over leadership from him in Juba.
President Kiir made the re...
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