Category: Africa
Sudan’s Prime Minister resigns after mass protests
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum.
Thousands marched against a [...]
South Africa bids farewell to Desmond Tutu
The funeral mass for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken place at the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town.
Tu [...]
Somalia’s president, Farmajo famous for flying with civilians in economy class
In his most recent diplomatic trip, Farmajo today flew to Turkey to attend the Turkey-Africa summit and to everyone's dismay, shared seats with or [...]
West African bloc calls for election timetable from Guinea
Leaders of the West African bloc ECOWAS have called on Guinea's military junta to provide a timetable for elections that would lead to a return to [...]
Libya prepares for polls as doubts grow
Libya is to hold its first ever presidential elections late next week, but the lack of a final list of candidates and bitter political divisions h [...]
Help ECOWAS restore constitutional rule in Guinea – Akufo-Addo to Ibn Chambas
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to Ghana’s diplomat, Mohamed Ibn Chambas to assist the Authority of Heads of States of the Econ [...]
ECOWAS Deploys 74 Observers for the Presidential Election in The Gambia
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has deployed seventy-four observers for the ECOWAS Election Observation Mission (ECOWAS-EOM [...]
Nigerian Minister want perpetrators of incest and rape castrated
Mrs Dame Pauline K. Tallen, the Nigerian Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, has suggested to Nigeria and other African States to ad [...]
Mali’s PM among some 150 hit by fresh ECOWAS sanctions: document
West African bloc ECOWAS issued sanctions against members of Mali's transitional government, including its prime minister, but not the colonel who [...]
COVID-19 switches macroeconomic settings in Africa
The 12th African Private Sector Forum has acknowledged that COVID-19 has dramatically changed the macroeconomic settings in which the private sect [...]