Potential Security Risks In Southern Africa As Zambia Hosts AFRICOM
The United States of America’s military footprint has been felt in Southern Africa after a security pact signed between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema and the US embassy in Lusaka...
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...
Poverty clobbers Zimbabwe’s mineral-rich areas
MARANGE — His two thatched huts lay side by side overlooking a stream beyond which stood mounds of soils dug up from the diamond mining claims in the vicinity...
Wounds Remain Fresh For Ghana’s Victims Of Atrocities In The Gambia
Time does not always heal all wounds.
The sense of grief in the 2020 documentary ‘I Cannot Bury My Father’ is palpable as we watch the Mensah family receive compelling...
Tanzania President John Magufuli Has Died
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Tanzania’s President Dr. John Pombe Magufuli has died at the age of 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced.
In a televised speech on...
African CSOs Call On Governments To Participate In The FACTI Panel High-Level Africa Regional...
Nairobi, Kenya November 19 — Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) meeting at the 8th Pan African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Taxation in Nairobi have expressed deep concern over...
Indigenous communities in Tanzania map own land to deter foreign grabbers
MANYARA, TANZANIA — As you trek down a rocky terrain dotted with thorny shrubs, that form a rosette of gray-green leaves with sharp spines on the tips, you can...
Sudanese Professionals Association With South Sudanese Activists Discuss Refugees’ Condition In Sudan
Khartoum, June 22 — In a meeting that gathered activists from South Sudan with the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) headquarters in Burri—Khartoum, a number of issues related to the...
Parliament in Cameroon ignores Coronavirus preventive measure
The first ordinary session of the 2020 legislative year opened in the nation’s capital Yaounde on 20 March 2020. Members of the Senate and National Assembly had earlier been...
Villagers Recount Horror As Terrorists Embark On Shooting Rampage In Tanzania
Mtwara, Tanzania — Tanzanian villagers who watched in horror their loved ones shot at point-blank while others including children kidnapped have spoken about their horrifying ordeal carried out by...
A Nation Left Stunned As Ghana’s Unprecedented Hung Parliament Begins On A Violent Note
On the morning Ghana’s new Parliament was set to be sworn in, there was unexpected rainfall amid the dry season across the country.
It would have been almost fitting for...
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 ‘clean-up campaign’ to directly confront...
Ghana’s Opposition Leader John Mahama Heads To Court To Force Re-run Of Polls
Ghana’s main opposition presidential candidate in the December 2020 elections has filed a petition at the country’s Supreme Court seeking to annul President Nana Akufo-Addo's re-election.
John Mahama of the...
South Africa’s Ruling Party Snubs Opposition In Zimbabwe
Harare, September 9 — A delegation from South Africa’s governing African National Congress party has evaded meeting Zimbabwe’s opposition political parties and civil societies which anticipated to brief the...
Landslide Victory For Opposition In Malawi’s Presidential Polls Re-run
Blantyre, June 28 — The opposition party has won fresh presidential election in Malawi, with a promise to root out corruption, describing it as the ‘biggest disease’ Malawi has...
Cameroon Audit Exposes Extensive Misuse Of COVID-19 Funds
Several government officials, including ministers, charged with the country’s Coronavirus response have been found wanting in their spending of COVID-19 funds, according to a recently leaked preliminary report by...
Tanzania’s Head Of Ports Arrested For Alleged Corruption
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — The former head of Tanzania’s Ports Authority, Deusdedit Kakoko, who was suspended on Sunday by the new President Samia Suluhu Hassan over alleged embezzlement...
Cameroon restricts movement in its English-speaking region
Cameroon is restricting the movement of thousands of people into and out of the city of Bamenda, the main entry point into the restive North West Region.
Inter-urban transport buses,...
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 systematic; citizens protest against the...
Ghana President Akufo-Addo Wins Reelection As Opposition Rejects Results
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has won reelection in the West African country’s eighth straight democratic election.
Akufo-Addo of the center-right New Patriotic Party obtained 51.3% of the vote in the...
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Operation Dudula
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