South Africa (SA) has strongly condemned efforts by Ghana and Nigeria to ventilate its concern about the country's handling of violence against illegal immigrants and the ongoing anti-foreigner sentiment by protest groups at the African Union (AU) and International Criminal ... Read More
Two Russian men have been found guilty by an Angolan court of terrorism and spying after being accused of planning a coup and helping to organise deadly demonstrations in the southern African country last year, reports The Guardian. Lev Lakshtanov ... Read More
Gabon’s main opposition leader, Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, has been in jail for more than three months after the government resurrected an 18-year-old private financial dispute as a pretext to sideline him, his lawyers said, according to Channel Africa ... Read More
Ghana's main opposition party has reacted with anger after one of its most influential leaders was sentenced to 20 years in jail, with hard labour, for illegal mining offences, reports BBC News. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) alleged that ... Read More
Ugandan diplomat Olara Otunnu has joined the contest to become the next Secretary-General of the UN, the seventh contender to succeed António Guterres when he steps down at the end of this year, reports Business Day. Otunnu, a former UN ... Read More
International Criminal Court (ICC) judges reluctantly dropped a case against a fugitive Sudanese rebel accused of attacking African Union peacekeepers in Darfur nearly 20 years ago, reports TimesLIVE. This after prosecutors said they could no longer prove their case at ... Read More
Britain has cancelled one of its annual military training in Kenya after failing to obtain a licence from the government, its Defence Ministry has said. Kenya hosts a permanent base for the British Army Training Unit Kenya in Laikipia, about ... Read More
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been elected chairman of the Ecowas Authority of Heads of State and Government, reports Vanguard Nigeria. Faye emerged as the new leader of the regional bloc during the 69th Ordinary Session of the Ecowas ... Read More
South Sudan’s fragile transition is increasingly shaped by forces beyond its borders that drive illicit arms flows into the country, writes Oluwole Ojewale, senior researcher, Central Africa Observatory, Institute of Security Studies (ISS). Ojewale says South Sudan’s Government has fixed ... Read More
Ghana’s former Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, dismissed by the country’s President 10 months ago, has just lost two cases testing the fairness of the dismissal process. One of these cases, heard by Ghana’s apex court, involved challenges brought by two ... Read More
‘As lawyers, we are tired of a corrupt judiciary that refuses to reform itself.' Ahmednasir Abdullahi, Kenyan lawyer, after lawyers launched a nationwide court boycott to protest judicial corruption and chronic delays ‘The government recognises that domestic violence ... Read More
‘I dream of the realisation of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent.’ Nelson Mandela, former South African President Read More
The Mali empire, led famously by Mansa Musa in the 1300s, grew rich and famous through trade and gold. Read More
