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...
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...
The South Sudan Government Announces Assassination Of The 7 October Movement Leader
Juba, June 15 — In a statement of the South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF), spokesperson today said that the leader of the 7 October Movement Kerbino Wol has...
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...
Missing Journalist’s Activist Brother Dies In Zimbabwe
Harare, August 26 — Patson Dzamara, a human rights activist in Zimbabwe, who was also brother to the country’s missing journalist-cum political activist, Itai Dzamara, died this Wednesday morning...
Recurring Diplomatic Row Between Kenya And Tanzania Likely To Threaten AfCFTA Success
Nairobi, September 3 — The recent diplomatic tiff between Kenya and its neighbor, Tanzania is likely to spell doom for the East African Community (EAC) and by extension the...
Tanzania’s New Bill Seeks To Extend Presidential Immunity
Dar es Salaam, June 8 — A controversial bill seeking to protect the sitting president and other top political leaders from prosecution has provoked anger in Tanzania, with campaigners...
China’s Appetite For Furniture Depletes Africa’s Rosewood Trees
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — China’s insatiable appetite for rosewood tree species is still driving illegal deforestation in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa, killing forests and sowing civil strife,...
As Federal Government of Somalia pursues fugitive minister, a Governor in Kenya is on...
NAIROBI MARCH 13, 2020 — “When the safety and security of our population is threatened by foreign forces regardless of how they came into Mandera County, our position is...
Ghana’s Main Opposition Party Sounds Alarm To International Community Ahead Of Elections
An election cycle has once again put Ghana’s democratic credentials under the spotlight as the main opposition party has questioned the commitment of the electoral management body to ensuring...
Malawian Lawyers Match As Government Send Chief Justice On ‘Forced Leave’
Blantyre, June 17 — Hundreds of lawyers in Malawi took to the streets Wednesday in solidarity for the Chief Justice and a Justice of Appeal who were told to...
Lumumba’s Tooth: A Symbolic Caricature Of Afrika’s Continued Political Toothlessness
The western media’s campaign in 1960 to discredit the first democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo (modern-day DRC), Patrice Èmery Lumumba, make a sad ending as...
Tanzanian Opposition Leader Suffers Broken Leg After Midnight Attack
Dar es Salaam, June 9 — The leader of Tanzania opposition in the parliament and national chairman of the country’s main opposition party Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA),...
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...
New White Paper Raises Alarm Over Tanzania’s Presidential Campaigns
Dar es Salaam, October 8 — Tanzania’s ruling party—Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and the government have come under strong criticism for allegedly attacking citizens’ rights and processes necessary to...
Sudanese Parties Signed Agreement in Juba
Juba, August 17 — The Sudanese government together with Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North/Revolutionary Front signed the security arrangements protocol at the Pyramids Hotel in the capital of South Sudan—Juba.
The...
President Kenyatta Launches Port Of Lamu Amid Uproar From Environmentalists In Coastal Kenya
Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta on the 3rd week of May inaugurated the Lamu Port that seeks to link the Indian Ocean to the ambitious regional project, the Lamu Port...
Nigeria President Buhari Turns Blind Eye To Shooting Of Unarmed EndSARS Protestors In National...
October 22 — Nigerians hoping for some contrition from their government were left fuming as President Muhammadu Buhari delivered an address to the nation that did not acknowledge the...
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...
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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...
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Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
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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...
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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...