Africa
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on Wednesday after his reported abduction in neighbouring Kenya. The manner of Besigye's detention has caused an uproar, with concerns over Kenya's role and the heightened crackdown on the opposition in Uganda. Besigye, 68, was brought to the General Court Martial in handcuffs…
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was "kidnapped" in Kenya and is being held in a Kampala military jail, according to his wife, a top UN official. Winnie Byanyima, head of UNAIDS, demanded on X on Tuesday that the government of Uganda "release my husband Dr. Kizza Besigye from where he is being held immediately".…
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The mausoleum where the scant remains of DR Congo's fiery independence hero, Patrice Lumumba, are interred has been vandalised, the culture ministry said Tuesday. A tooth is all that is left of the anti-colonialist icon and first prime minister after the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960. "An act of vandalism took place on…
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Senegal's ruling party was on track to get a large majority following weekend legislative elections, media reported on Monday citing provisional results. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Pastef party was projected to get from 119 to 131 seats in the 165-member parliament, according to estimates from various media in the west African country. The Pastef party…
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Tanzanian rescue workers dug through the ruins of a collapsed building for a second day on Sunday, hoping to pull survivors from beneath the rubble in a disaster that has claimed 13 lives. The four-storey block came down at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) on Saturday in the east African country's busy Kariakoo market, in…
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Senegal on Sunday voted in parliamentary elections, with the new leaders aiming for a resounding majority to see through the promise of ambitious reform that swept them to power eight months ago. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye secured victory in March pledging economic transformation, social justice and a fight against corruption – raising hopes among a…
16 Nov
At least five people were killed and dozens injured after a four-storey building collapsed in the centre of Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Saturday, rescuers said. The building in Kariakoo, the East African country's busiest market, caved in as people were shopping in the morning. Hundreds of rescuers using their bare hands, drills…
16 Nov
A South African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal
16 Nov
Gabon extended a night curfew Saturday as it held a referendum on a new constitution the ruling junta says will mark a new chapter after 55 years of dynastic rule in the oil-rich African nation. The estimated 860,000 registered voters have faced an onslaught of calls by authorities on TV, radio and social media to…
15 Nov
A former Benin police chief turned government critic has been detained pending trial on a charge of "incitement to rebellion", judicial sources told AFP on Friday. General Louis Philippe Houndegnon was arrested less than two months after several prominent government figures were detained and accused of plotting a coup. Houndegnon was influential under former president…
15 Nov
The ECOWAS Court has dismissed an application filed by a Nigerian, Chukwuemeka Edeh, seeking five million naira damages for alleged unlawful detention and torture by the defunct police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The petitioner had approached the court with an application praying for the enforcement of his rights and a default judgment against Nigeria following…
15 Nov
A fire erupted overnight in a retirement home in the northeastern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro killing at least 10 people, the
15 Nov
Following the United Nations Security Council’s designation of two Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanders on November 8, the Treasury Department yesterday sanctioning RSF West Darfur Commander, Abdel Rahman Joma’a Barakallah.
14 Nov
Rwanda's health minister on Thursday said the outbreak of the often fatal Marburg virus in the country was at an end, with no new cases for nearly two weeks. First announced in the small nation in the Great Lakes region of Africa late September, Rwanda began vaccinating against Marburg in October. "Since then we have…
14 Nov
A Ugandan court has convicted a 21-year-old content creator for calling for the public flogging of President Yoweri Museveni on video-sharing platform TikTok, a state prosecutor said on Thursday. Emmanuel Nabugodi, who created a video depicting a mock Museveni trial, faces up to seven years in prison for "spreading hate speech" against the head of…
13 Nov
Authorities in war-wracked Sudan have authorized the delivery of UN humanitarian aid via the key border crossing of Adre, between Chad and the Darfur region, for three more months, a UN spokesman said Wednesday. Sudan has since April 2023 been gripped by a deadly conflict between the army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the…
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Foremost scholar of public administration, Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun, in this interview with MUYIWA ADEYEMI, spoke on how the six regional development commissions can lead to true regionalism, and resolve contradictions in the Supreme Court judgment on local government autonomy.