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Bashing of journalists on rise in Uganda Church members on Sunday turned on journalists, assaulting them and destroying their equipment, as Uganda experiences a surge in reporters being beate...

Ethiopia undecided on storming key Somali town Ethiopia on Thursday said it was yet to reach a decision on sending troops to Kismayo, Somalia a stronghold of rebel movement, Al Shabab.

IMF urges Ghana to safeguard macro-economic stability The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised Ghana to remove subsidies on energy and fuel, a move that is likely to be met with resistance as it ...

“Spear” Gallery and ANC bury hatchet, but buyer still wants painting South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will drop its court action against the Goodman Gallery, while the gallery will pull down a painting th...

Africa to focus on financial governance ?A Declaration on Good Financial Governance to tackle African lawmakers’ financial illiteracy, blamed for the slowed progress on several policy issues...

Former President Nelson Mandela makes rare appearance ?South Africa’s iconic first post apartheid President Nelson Mandela made a rare television appearance on Wednesday to receive the African National Co...

In the Name of Nigerian Honour: Jonathan, Abiola and UNILAG Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to honour one of the country’s luminaries has brought him more than what he had probably bargained for.

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Félix Tshisekedi arrives at the extraordinary summit of East African Community heads of state in Bujumbura on February 4, 2023. © Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP

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© Former Ivorian president and chairman of the PPA-CI, Laurent Gbagbo, during a ceremony in Yopougon, a popular district of Abidjan, on March 31, 2023. Sia Kambou / AFP

at loggerheads

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo’s exclusion from electoral list raises controversy In Côte d’Ivoire, former president Laurent Gbagbo remains off the electoral list for the next local elections scheduled for September, a decision that...
People walk past a money-changers sign at a market in Harare

Beauty Contest

Premium badgeZimbabwe is world’s most miserable country, economist’s index claims The competition is stiff in a post-Covid world of inflation and supply chain disruptions, but there is a clear winner for the title of the planet’s mo...
Félix Tshisekedi arrives at the extraordinary summit of East African Community heads of state in Bujumbura on February 4, 2023. © Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP

'economic colonisation'

Premium badgeDRC: Tshisekedi wants to renegotiate Kabila’s ‘contract of the century’ with China A task force was created by DRC President Félix Tshisekedi ahead of his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in order to identify the axes ...

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Ghana’s 3rd national communication project on climate change underway Ghana has begun preparation towards its Third National Communication (NC3) project to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC...

Ugandan workers get ready for massive strike Ugandan workers have threatened a nationwide strike on 4 June if the government does not put in place a minimum wage and increase teachers’ wages, amo...

South Sudan hands 15 suspects to Ethiopia? Ethiopian television has announced that South Sudan has handed over to Ethiopia 15 people suspected to have been involved in last month’s killings in ...

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The threat of war looms larger South Sudan has withdrawn from the oil centre of Heglig, but while the April stand-off allowed Juba to flex its muscles the diplomatic dismay ?it prov...

Nigeria: Jonathan optimistic in State of the Nation address Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan believes the West African country has “made appreciable progress in the last one year” under his stewardship.

Furore over “The Spear” rages in South Africa
 Thousands of supporters of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) took to the streets of Johannesburg and claimed victory against the c...

Ethiopia suspends tantalum exports Ethiopia has suspended tantalum mining and exports to modernise the mining process and avoid risks of tantalum contamination.

Uganda: Government and church “save” Martyrs Day Martyrs Day in Uganda, which had been reduced to an alcohol, roasted pork joints and sex market is being returned to its original meaning, with more t...

Hannibal: Africa’s tinderbox of jobless growth With growth comes jobs. That’s the mantra that slips regularly from the tongues of most African leaders. Now two new reports are ringing alarm bells a...

40 percent of Zimbabweans have no bank account Forty percent of Zimbabwe’s population has no access to banking services, a report by a South African financial institution has revealed.

South Africa: Limpopo – Spoiling for a punch-up Political factions are battling for control of a key South African province as central government steps in to control its finances. The outcome may af...

Newspaper removes controversial “Spear” painting “Hurt, painful and inhumane” this is how the ANC’s Jackson Mthembu described the “Spear” painting that has dominated news headlines in South Africa fo...

Zimbabwe kleptocrats haemorrhaging economy Zimbabwe’s finance minister has made a bold claim that a clique of politicians from a rival political party are on a diamond looting spree to bank rol...