Top Zimbabwean Official Nabbed For Gold Smuggling
Harare — Former Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Football Association, Henrietta Rushwaya was on Monday nabbed by cops as she attempted to smuggle six kilograms of gold to...
Students’ Loan: We Can’t Pay, We Won’t Pay
On November 22nd, 2022, Nigeria's 9th National Assembly successfully passed a Students' Loan Bill, a move that has now incited reactions along varying interests and ideological lines. The bill,...
Arrested Zim Journalist Mentally Strong Under Inhumane Conditions
Ubuntu Times journalist who was arrested Wednesday on allegations of contravening the country’s immigration laws and allegedly facilitating the accreditation of two foreign journalists without due procedure is being...
Ghana’s Supreme Court Upholds Akufo-Addo’s Election Victory
Ghana’s Supreme Court has upheld President Akufo-Addo's victory in the December 2020 presidential election after dismissing an election petition filed by the opposition leader John Mahama.
Mr. Mahama, a former...
Cameroon Opposition Set To Overthrow Long-serving President
The Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM), a significant political party in Cameroon, has announced that come 22 September 2020, it will carry out mass protests in a bid to oust...
Growing Military Footprint In Civilian Affairs Threatening Ghana’s Democracy
Cletus Awuni was on his normal rounds on the afternoon of July 1 when the alarming news came his way.
Some soldiers were on the rampage in Wa, the capital...
Uganda Elections: Bobi Wine Withdraws Election Petition Against Museveni
Uganda’s youthful musician turned opposition politician, Robert Kyagulanyi has ended his long shot suit aiming to overturn President Yoweri Museveni’s disputed victory in the January 14 election, clearing the...
Kenyan Blood Banks Run Dry Amid COVID-19
Kericho, May 14 — It’s mid-morning and Mary Moraa and her sister sit at the reception to the Kericho Blood Transfusion Center at the Kericho County Referral Hospital in...
Karamoja Mining Rush Threatens Livelihoods of Indigenous People
Billions of investments into mining projects have breathed new life in Uganda’s once-neglected Karamoja region, creating thousands of jobs in mineral-rich heartlands near the Kenyan border but the investment...
Kenya’s Unlikely COVID-19 Hero
Nyeri, Kenya — On a chilly Tuesday morning at the Consolata Mission Hospital in Kenya’s Nyeri County, Jane Kagwiria attends to patients and visitors at the gate as they...
It Is Not Yet Dawn For Zimbabwe’s Informal Economies As Government Extends Lockdown ‘Indefinitely’
Mutare, May 23 — A medium build 35-year old Blaster Chemugaira is seated in a chair just outside the gate of a house he rents in Chikanga, a high-density...
Coronavirus Forces Funeral Culture Rethink In Zimbabwe
Rusape, June 20 — Shingirai Manyengavana (25) opens a white coffin for people to pay their last respect inside a kitchen hut in Denhere Village, in Rusape, 174 kilometers...
The Budding Movement Urging A Voter Boycott Of Ghana’s General Election
It is a scorching Thursday morning around one of the biggest malls in Ghana’s capital city. Two members of the Economic Fighters League (EFL) stand on a sidewalk with...
The Resource Curse: Indigenous Pastoral Communities And Africa’s Largest Wind Power Tussle In Kenya’s...
Sarima, Marsabit County —In Sarima, a dry, desolate land, traditionally seen as too inhospitable to inhabit in the corner of Kenya’s north sits the country’s largest private investment. Upon...
Vaccine Diplomacy: Exposing Africa’s Untapped Human Resources
The receipt of Coronavirus vaccine donations by African countries from China increasingly expands the Asian giant’s Road and Belt Initiative (RBI) in the continent at a time the world...
Missing rights defender’s wife petitions Zimbabwe’s President
HARARE — Five years after the abduction of Zimbabwe’s human rights activist Itai Dzamara on 9 March 2015, his wife, Sheffra has petitioned the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa over...
Intimidation, Machete Violence Reported As Polls Open In Zambia
Voting starts today (Thursday) in Zambia in a tightly contested election between incumbent Patriotic Front (PF) candidate Edgar Lungu and main challenger Hakainde Hichilema.
Allegations of vote fraud and intimidation...
Tanzanian Opposition Leader Arrested As Crackdown Mounts Ahead Of October Polls
Dar es Salaam, June 24 — A prominent Tanzanian opposition leader, Zitto Kabwe, and seven members of his party have been arrested after the police accused them of holding...
Haiti: A First Black Republic Denied Right To Thrive
Haiti is reeling from a new crisis after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home last Wednesday morning by mercenaries. The gruesome act which has been condemned by...
Can Zumbani, Zimbabwe’s Local Tea Leaves Treat COVID-19?
Nickson Mpofu (38) a resident of Cranborne, a medium-density suburb in Harare the capital of Zimbabwe, recalls how they used tea leaves to treat colds growing up in his...
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The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity
Across the African continent, an unprecedented wave of youth-led uprisings is shaking the pillars of political regimes that have held power for decades. In...
Africa’s Coup Governments: When Elections Become An Exhausted Idea Confirming Democratic Fatigue
The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been...
Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All...
Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in...
How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women,...
Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special...
Namibia Lithium Battle
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and...
Operation Dudula
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a...
Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in...
EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of...
Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement
To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU,...
Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...