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...
Journalist Denied Bail, Faces 10 Years In Prison
A Zimbabwe magistrates’ court in the city of Bulawayo on Monday, May 31 threw out a bail application by Mr. Jeffrey Moyo, a correspondent for Ubuntu Times, citing that...
Landslide Victory For Opposition In Malawi’s Presidential Polls Re-run
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Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations
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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 16th century, a mechanism that...
Desert Locusts Invasion Cause Panic In Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — At first glance, Hilder Tarimo, a local farmer in a sleepy Ngai Nairobi village in Tanzania’s Siha district, thought the dark dense blot darkening...
Tanzania’s Accidental Journalist To Serve One Year Suspended Sentence
Dar es Salaam — A Tanzanian court on Tuesday, November 17 sentenced a well-known media entrepreneur to one year suspended sentence after he was found guilty of obstructing police...
Tanzania, Burundi Shun COVID-19 Vaccines
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — As nations worldwide are banking on COVID-19 vaccines to quash the deadly Coronavirus, Tanzania and Burundi have rejected the badly needed jabs, a move...
Kenya suffers the effects of Coronavirus outbreak even without a single case reported.
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Tanzania Asks For Clarification On U.S Visa Sanctions
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Barely a day after the U.S Department of State imposed visa restrictions on unspecified number of Tanzanian officials it accused of subverting the electoral...
Kenya’s reported COVID-19 death set to cause panic, learning from Italy’s rise in death...
NAIROBI MARCH 26, 2020 — Kenya, on Thursday confirmed its first Coronavirus (COVID-19) death after a 66-year-old male Kenyan citizen passed on in the afternoon as confirmed cases rise...
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...
Zimbabwe extends lockdown by two weeks
HARARE — Moved by the rising positive cases of the dreaded coronavirus, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa today extended the national lockdown against coronavirus by 14 days.
The Southern African nation’s...
Zimbabwe Hit By Sixty COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours
Harare — Zimbabwe was on Monday hit by 60 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, this at a time the country has lost a total of 773 people since the first...
Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation
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Zim Govt Trying To Frustrate Arrested Journalist’s Freedom Bid – Lawyer
The lawyer representing Ubuntu Times’ Zimbabwe correspondent Jeffrey Moyo, 37, says the State is “acting in an unjust way” after it issued an arrest warrant for his client on...
Somalia Threatens To Leave Regional Bloc As Row With Kenya Escalates
On November 29 last year, the Federal government of Somalia broke its diplomatic ties with Kenya, after accusing Nairobi of meddling with its internal and political affairs. This was...
Malawians Cast Fresh Votes Following ‘Unprecedented’ Court Decision
Lilongwe, June 23 — Hundreds of thousands of Malawians turned up in polling stations across the country to vote for the next president of the country after the country’s...
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, and children. Places of worship,...
South Africa records first positive case of Coronavirus
South Africa has just recorded its first positive case of coronavirus today.
In a statement issued by the country’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhizhe, the government confirmed its first positive case...
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