Zimbabwe police arrested journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, a staunch critic of the government, for the second time on Tuesday. He was charged with contempt of court for posting on Twitter in defiance of the agreement that saw him released on bail in September.
The city of Onitsha in eastern Nigeria held an impressive rally for U.S. President Donald Trump last week, complete with Republican campaign signs, red hats, and a mixture of American and Nigerian flags. Trump is enormously popular in Nigeria, to the befuddlement of many American media observers.
Nigeria’s center-right People’s Democratic Party (PDP) criticized Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday for his “failure” to guarantee the safety of people’s lives and property in the country after U.S. forces rescued an American citizen held hostage in Nigeria on Saturday.
Reuters reported that six gunmen on motorbikes with AK-47s seized Walton and left his family and brother tied up in their home.
Chinese state media on Thursday called on the Western world to help African nations pay their enormous debts, many of which just happen to be owed to Chinese banks thanks to China’s debt-trap Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Increasing numbers of women in Zimbabwe are being forced to turn to sex work and prostitution to stay afloat, a report revealed Thursday, as the impact of lockdowns triggered by the Chinese coronavirus batter the socialist country’s already failing economy.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warned Nigerians on Wednesday that the country’s economy is “too fragile to bear another round of lockdown” should a second wave of coronavirus sweep the nation.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Wednesday that worldwide freedom of expression “stops” when Muslims are offended by material they regard as blasphemous, such as the images recently displayed in France.
Pope Francis condemned last weekend’s shooting in Kumba, Cameroon, that claimed the lives of 7 young schoolchildren and left over a dozen others wounded.
Nigeria’s government on Tuesday urged people who looted coronavirus vaccine candidates stored in a federal warehouse in the national capital, Abuja, in recent days to return them. Minister of State at Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health Adeleke Olorinmibe Mamora spoke
A leading Islamic law group in Nigeria accused the country’s Christian clerics on Friday of stoking religious tensions to turn anti-police protests in the city of Lagos into forces of anti-Muslim violence, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported on Friday.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged citizens in remarks Thursday to “discontinue the street protests” that have engulfed the country in the last two weeks, triggered by police corruption and abuse.
The attorney general of Ethiopia said on Thursday that citizens could be jailed for up to two years if they fail to wear masks in public or violate other restrictions intended to control the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday it had arrested one of its soldiers accused of encouraging his fellow troops not to fire on anti-police protesters, who have led a violent movement against Nigeria’s security forces in recent weeks.
Young boys enrolled in Sudan’s state-run Islamic schools face beatings, torture, and sexual abuse at the hands of older students and teachers, according to a report by BBC Arabic published on Monday.
Nigerian paramilitary police reportedly opened fire on protesters in several cities on Tuesday, killing and injuring dozens of people, including bystanders. Eyewitness claimed they also saw military troops in camouflage uniforms shooting at the demonstrators, while the Nigerian Army denied those reports. The demonstrators were protesting against police brutality, particularly by a federal paramilitary unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Flood victims in the Kenyan region of Tana River County will receive a beating before their rescue in future calamities as they have ignored the government’s safety instructions, the regional governor, Dhahdo Godhana, warned on Monday.
Long-distance truck drivers in East Africa are paying bribes to avoid state-enforced coronavirus testing at the Uganda-Kenya border, the head of Uganda’s Professional Drivers Network (UPDN) revealed on Monday.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced a deal with the government of Sudan to pay $335 million in compensation to the victims of terrorism and their families.
Egyptian police academy cadets stripped off their shirts and posed topless during a graduation ceremony last week outside of Cairo; video of the ceremony began circulating this week.
Plans by Nigeria to castrate rapists and execute pedophiles have been condemned as “draconian” by a furious Michelle Bachelet, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The government of Nigeria is currently weighing if it should cut access to the internet amid ongoing anti-police protests, local media reported on Wednesday.
Immigration lawyers tried and failed to prevent the U.S. repatriation of roughly 100 African migrants back to their home countries amid a rising flow of asylum seekers from the conflict-wracked poor continent.
Illegal gold mining has surged in Zimbabwe during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by Reuters on Monday.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has insisted that farm murders are not “ethnic cleansing” after a grisly torture-murder in Free State led to ‘Boer Lives Matter’ protesters marching on a courthouse to get at the suspects.
Nigeria’s government on Sunday said it would dissolve a controversial federal police unit accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings and abusing citizens.
Jihadists with ties to the al-Qaeda terror network executed a Christian missionary after four years in captivity in the African nation of Mali, Swiss authorities reported Friday.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) its annual Peace Prize for 2020 on Friday, overlooking a history of corruption, mismanagement, and sexual assault among its ranks.
Cuba’s communist regime denied reports on Thursday that two of its slave doctors captured by the Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab are free following reports across international media that they had been released.
The U.K. Guardian on Wednesday published the results of a joint investigation with journalism website Bellingcat and the Lighthouse Reports nonprofit group into Libyan arms sales.
Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Finance spent $10.6 billion in unauthorized expenditure in the space of three years between 2015 and 2018, the country’s Public Accounts Portfolio Committee (PAC) revealed on Tuesday.
The regime of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe is working on a “Patriot Bill” that would punish “unpatriotic” citizens who talk to foreign governments without official approval or make “false statements that harm the country.”
Madagascar’s president this weekend launched a capsule version of an herbal tea he touts as a treatment for the Chinese coronavirus. The country’s World Health Organization (W.H.O.) representative approvingly attended the launch ceremony.
Over 750 victims and relatives of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony are now threatening to sue the government over the delay in receiving compensation for his crimes, New Vision reported Thursday.
The President of Zimbabwe took to social media early Friday morning to wish U.S. President Donald Trump well and a speedy recovery from his battle with coronavirus.
An audit of the Wikipedia-affiliated dictionary Wiktionary for the Malagasy language, the national language of Madagascar, found the site to be littered with errors. The errors were attributed to bots mostly programmed by the site’s sole active administrator, which mass-produced almost all six million entries included on the Malagasy Wiktionary. Noting the problems were too comprehensive to be resolved manually, the audit recommended deleting most entries on the site.
A report co-produced by The New Humanitarian, a non-profit human rights news agency, and Reuters on Tuesday said that 51 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused World Health Organization (WHO) personnel, along with representatives of several aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, of using the Ebola crisis as an opportunity to sexually exploit them.
An “outraged” World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced Wednesday it is to launch a vigorous investigation into its own staff. This follows repeated accusations of sexual exploitation and abuse in Ebola response teams operating remotely in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Africa is experiencing losses of nearly $89 billion a year because of “illicit financial flows” such as corruption and tax evasion, amounting to more than what it receives in foreign aid, a United Nations study found this week.
The governors of all 36 states in Nigeria challenged an executive order before the nation’s Supreme Court this week relinquishing the federal government from its constitutional responsibility to fund state courts.
