Military leaders who’ve seized power in Guinea have released about 80 prisoners ahead of a summit of the west African grouping Ecowas. The leaders of the Ecowas bloc are due to meet virtually on Wednesday to discuss the Guinea coup and the political transition in Mali. The prisoners had been opponents of President Alpha Condé,…
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi will wrap up his two-day official visit to Turkey on Wednesday. Tshisekedi was received at the presidential palace in Ankara by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. The visit is the first by a Congolese president. Their talks focused on bilateral cooperation and relations between Turkey and Africa. According…
A new variant found in South Africa is getting attention for the number and types of mutations it contains and the speed at which they occur. By Dr Amir Khan While much of the world’s focus has been on the Delta variant of coronavirus, a new variant has been identified in South Africa. Currently referred to as the…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the decision to release former president Jacob Zuma on medical parole. President Ramaphosa wished Zuma a quick recovery, during his concluding remarks at a meeting of the ruling party ANC’s national executive committee. “We welcome this. We’ve heard that he is not well and we’d like to wish…
The rebel group in Ethiopia’s Tigray region says that 150 people may have died of starvation as the humanitarian crisis worsens in the region. The Ethiopian government has not reacted to the claim. But it’d previously rejected accusations by the UN that it’s blocking aid. TPLF’s agriculture chief Atinkut Mezgebo said people and livestock were…
Residents of the capital Tripoli questioned the timing of the release of Saadi Kadhafi, a son of Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, and praise the Libyan judiciary for basing its decision on “justice and integrity”. Saadi – the strongman’s third son, now aged 47 — was…
Soldiers were still manning roadblocks in Conakry Monday and some roads remained cut off to civilian traffic as the military spent its first full day in charge of Guinea. In a press conference on Monday, opposition leader Cellou Diallo said he was willing to work with the junta, a major endorsement from the political class…
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Saliou Samb Conakry – Special forces soldiers appeared on Sunday to have ousted Guinea’s long-serving president, telling the nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders. As the United Nations condemned any takeover by force and the West African region’s economic bloc threatened reprisals, the elite army unit’s…
Libyan authorities have released Saadi Gaddafi, a son of the former leader Muammar Gaddafi who was ousted and killed during a 2011 uprising, a Libyan official source and a unity government source said on Sunday. Saadi Gaddafi fled for Niger during the NATO-backed uprising, but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned since then in Tripoli.…