Category: Africa

The top appeals court in France is due to rule on a conviction handed to the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president for using public money to fund his lavish lifestyle. Should the decision go against Teodorin Obiang, his assets could be redistributed to people living in his home country. Obiang – who is the vice-president […]

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara will on Tuesday meet his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo. This will be their first meeting since the post-election violence in 2010 in which 3,000 people were killed and up to a million displaced, according to UN data. The meeting is set to take place at the Presidential palace. Gbagbo spent seven […]

Mozambican authorities have arrested at least 24 people for violating a Covid night curfew over the weekend in the conflict-hit Cabo Delgado province. Most of the people arrested were soldiers, some in their uniform, who had been out drinking. They were disarmed and detained in the provincial capital Pemba. Provincial police chief Silvestre Zacarias said […]

Suspected members of a militant group in the Democratic Republic of Congo have shot dead 16 people who were returning from a weekly market. The ambush took place in the east of the country. Hospital officials in the town of Oicha say the victims include six women and a child. The attackers are believed to […]

Mali has opened investigations into the attempted knife attack on interim leader Assimi Goita inside a mosque during Eid al-Adha festivities. Prosecutor Bourama Kariba Konate said an inquiry has been opened “to shed light on this event”. Colonel Goita had said he was doing “very well” and downplayed the significance of the assault. Police made […]

Tanzanian opposition leader Freeman Mbowe has been arrested, said his Chadema party. Mbowe was in his hotel room on Tuesday night in Mwanza, in the north-western region where he was attending party meetings, when he was detained. Officials from Tanzania’s main opposition party said they have not been able to establish where Mbowe is being […]

Nigeria’s Yoruba separatist leader Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested in neighbouring Benin, weeks after he was declared wanted for allegedly stockpiling arms. Igboho was arrested by security forces at an airport in Benin’s capital Cotonou, on Monday night. According to sources, Igboho was on his way to Germany and would […]

Zimbabwe’s ruling party has denied reports it intends to ban women and girls from wearing miniskirts and trousers in public places. Zanu-PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo in a statement said such reports were fake news. This followed reports that the party was planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal for women aged […]

Ghanaians have expressed outrage at the decision by MPs to approve salaries for the wives of the president and vice-president for the supportive role they play. They are set to receive the same amount as cabinet ministers following a 2019 recommendation by a parliamentary committee.   The first lady and second lady have always been […]

Ethiopia has called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to respect the AU-led tripartite negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd), saying the issue “does not fall” under its mandate, according to a statement from Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued on Wednesday. “The latest attempts made by Sudan and Egypt to take the Gerd […]