Tanzania opposition leader Godbless Lema was on Sunday arrested as he fled to Kenya as a crackdown in the neighbouring country intensifies following the swearing of President John Pombe Magufuli for a second term in office after a disputed poll late last month. Reports according to Kenyan media outlets say Lema spent Sunday night in
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Ivory Coast opposition leader and former Prime Minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan was under arrest on Saturday for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattara’s election victory, his wife and a spokeswoman said. The opposition leader announced the creation of a parallel government after declining to participate in last month’s presidential election. The arrest of
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The United Nations (UN) has announced that it has temporarily suspended humanitarian services in the troubled eastern part of South Sudan after the killing of two local aid workers. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement on Wednesday said that workers of child rights organisation Plan International were
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President John Pombe Magufuli has been re-elected into office for the second term after emerging the overall winner of the polls which were held on Wednesday October 28. The announcement was made on Friday by the National Electoral Commission chairman Judge Semistocles Kaijage in Dar es Salaam after concluding the vote counting exercise. He recorded
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More than 18 people in restive region of Kivu in DR Congo’s troubled east have been killed by heavily armed Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia blamed for hundreds of deaths this past year, local sources said on Thursday. It was gathered that the army and UN forces are fighting several armed groups at the
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Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said. Arriving on motorbikes and in civilian clothes, the attackers hit the school around midday in the city of Kumba in the Southwest
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The death toll in the collapse of a three-story church building in eastern Ghana rose to 21, rescue officials said on Friday, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble. “The deceased include 12 women and nine men,” the National Disaster Management Organisation said in a statement, up the toll from 17 dead on Thursday.
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The mayor of eastern Congolese city of Beni on Tuesday said 900 prisoners had escaped from jail, including members of an Islamist militant group. Modeste Bakwanamaha said rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and other rebel groups were among those who had been sprung from the jail by attackers using welding equipment. Out of
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Boko Haram fighters killed three villagers and abducted five children in the north part of Cameroon, where jihadist groups are increasingly active, local officials said Saturday. Local officials told journalists on Saturday the attack took place in the village of Oudal, six kilometres (four miles) from the country’s border with Nigeria. The abducted children, according
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Tension is rising in Guinea, following the killing of senior army officer Col Mamady Condé. It comes just two days before a presidential election in which President Alpha Condé is running for a controversial third term. Armed men shot Col Condé dead in the early hours of Friday at a military camp in Kindia, 130km
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A fire broke out on Mount Kilimanjaro on Sunday afternoon and authorities were trying to contain it, Tanzania’s National Parks service (TANAPA) said. The parks service posted a blurry photograph on its Twitter account of what appeared to be Mount Kilimanjaro with several pockets of flames burning on it, with the message: “A fire emerged
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British police on Monday ,arrested 31 suspected online child abusers and seized more than 300 phones, laptops and other items during a recent week-long operation. The raids took place between September 28 and October 3, with 100 children “protected” as a result, London’s Metropolitan Police reported. This was achieved from a unit dedicated to tackling
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West Africa bloc Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has lifted post-coup sanctions against Mali. The 15-nation-member of ECOWAS slapped sanctions on Mali after the August 18 military coup, which toppled president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The sanctions “will be lifted when a civilian prime minister is named,” ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou had
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The United States has urged the transitional government in Mali to honour its commitments to the Economic Community of West African States . The commitment includes holding a democratic election within 18 months . Spokesperson for the US Department of Transitional , Ms Morgan Ortagus, made the call in a statement made available on the
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Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, ‘Hotel Rwanda’ has been denied bail by a court in the capital, Kigali, after he was charged with 12 counts, including terrorism. Mr Rusesabagina had appealed for bail on the basis of his health and the lack
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