Sudan’s interim authorities have cancelled more than 3,500 passports issued to foreign residents by the government of ousted president Omar al-Bashir, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. Sudanese media reported that the great majority of those affected were citizens of Arab countries, particularly Syria, who had paid Bashir aides a going rate of 10,000 dollars
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Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo narrowly beat his long-time rival John Mahama to win a second term, the electoral commission announced on Wednesday. But Ghana’s main opposition party has rejected the results of the presidential and legislative vote, citing alleged irregularities. Akufo-Addo, 76, won by a slim margin securing 51.59% of the total votes cast, while
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Around 40 informal miners have been trapped underground in northeastern Zimbabwe after a shaft in a disused gold mine collapsed, the country’s miners’ federation said Thursday. The disaster occurred late Wednesday in the town of Bindura, around 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of the capital Harare, said Wellington Takavarasha, head of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation.
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Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won a second term after gaining an outright majority in the first round of elections, the country’s electoral board announced Thursday. “Mr Kabore… with 57.87 percent of the vote, is provisionally elected president of (Burkina) Faso in the first round,” said Newton Ahmed Barry, head of the
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Sudan’s former prime minister and top opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi died from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, his party said. The 84-year-old was the country’s last democratically elected prime minister before he was toppled in 1989 by now-ousted president Omar al-Bashir in an Islamist-backed military coup. The leader of the moderate Islamist National Umma Party
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The Mozambican government has expelled two police training instructors after they were found guilty of impregnating a total of 15 students at a police training school. Confirming the news, Minister of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs in the Republic of Mozambique, Helena Kida said an inquiry into the incident had started. Kida said it is
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Kenyatta noted that on a continent of around 1.3 billion Africans with a median age of around 20 years, there is a very tangible underlying sense of urgency when it comes to expectations of government. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta urged African governments to put their citizens at the centre of delivering
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Former Niger president Mamadou Tandja has died at age 82, the government says. The deceased was elected to lead Niger twice from 1999 to 2010. It could be recalled the former Niger President Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in a coup d’etat for attempting to extend his rule beyond two-term. In a statement read out on
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At least three people were killed and 34 were injured on Wednesday when violent protests erupted in the capital Kampala following the arrest of opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi. The police in Uganda confirmed the report. Bobi Wine, a music star-turned-politician was arrested on Wednesday during an election rally in the eastern district of Luuka
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A hundred pupils at a high school in northwestern Zimbabwe have tested positive for coronavirus, the government said Tuesday, raising fears of a new wave of the respiratory infection. “A total of 100 pupils have tested positive for Covid-19 at… John Tallach boarding secondary school in Matabeleland North,” government spokesman Nick Mangwana said on Twitter.
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The Bamako Court of Assizes on Friday sentenced Malian jihadist leader, Souleymane Keita and two other men to death for terrorism. The court charged Keita, the head of an al-Qaeda offshoot named Khaled Ibn al-Walid, for attacks carried out in Mali’s south, near the border with the Ivory Coast. A judicial source told journalists on
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Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has declared seven days of national mourning in honour of former President Jerry John Rawlings, who died on Thursday morning. Ghana’s former President Jerry Rawlings, a member of the radical and charismatic generation of figures who emerged in West Africa in the 1980s, died on Thursday aged 73, the
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A Former President of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings has reportedly died of coronavirus-related complications. His demise comes less than a month after he buried his mother. The ex president died at the age of 73. Rawlings, who is one of the most respected African leaders, was a military leader in Ghana and later became a politician
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Seven soldiers were killed and others wounded or missing after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso, the centre of a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, security sources said on Thursday. The troops were attacked on Wednesday between Tin Akoff and Beldiabe in Oudalan province, which borders Mali and Niger, one source said. “The provisional toll
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The former president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for 10 years before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday. “Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey,” where he had been taken
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