A Former South Sudanese Businessman Detainee Forms a Rebel Movement
Juba, June 6 — The former detained businessman Carpino Woll announced on Friday, June 5th the establishment of a new rebel movement in South Sudan named "7 October Movement."...
Stuck in weak healthcare system and panic, Kenya temporarily ban international conferences as coronavirus...
NAIROBI, KENYA MARCH 7,2020 — Kenya, on Friday issued a temporary ban on meetings, conferences and international events that involves attendees from countries affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The...
Looming Conflict As Loggers Scramble For Waning Forest
Mzuzu — Around 1964, Malawi’s first Head of State introduced an ambitious project to turn one of the mountain ranges in the country into a forest. What followed was...
Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) Rejects Targeting Of Refugees
Khartoum, June 25 — A delegation from the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) secretariat visited the Al-Sheqla camp in which a refugee from South Sudan was recently killed.
The delegation listened...
U.S Expresses Concern Over Tanzania’s Newspaper Ban
Dar es Salaam, June 25 — The United States has expressed concern over recent actions by the government of Tanzania to revoke media license of an opposition party newspaper...
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...
Fear Of Terrorism Spillage In Southern Africa Region
Harare — There are growing fears that Mozambique’s terrorism insurgents could spill into several countries across Southern Africa.
In Zimbabwe, many fear terrorists operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado,...
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...
BREAKING: Kenya confirms first case of Novel Coronavirus as WHO declares its outbreak officially...
NAIROBI MARCH 13, 2020 — The virus which exploded in China’s Wuhan City in Hubei Province has claimed 4,600 lives with over 126,000 people infected globally out of whom...
Zimbabwean Schools Face Perpetual Dilapidation
Binga — With its classrooms thatched, its walls built using home-made bricks and located in Binga, a remote area in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province, Zumana Secondary school apparently stands weighed...
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,...
Zimbabwe Government Pounded by Fresh Divisions
MARANDA, May 19 — 46-year old Livious Nhundugwa of Maranda township in Zimbabwe’s Mwenezi district and his one-time friend, 43-year old Taguta Chikondo, are now sworn enemies despite the...
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 military operation in Ukraine, the...
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...
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...
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...
How An Organization Is Using “Safe Spaces” To Fight Forced Early Marriages Of Girls...
Ganyurey, Kenya August 10 — It is 4 PM in the evening, and Halima Hassan, a pupil in Ganyurey Primary School, has just returned from a COVID-19 pandemic awareness...
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 Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Burkina Faso,...
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, later renamed African Union in...
Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver
For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...