Mauritania’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Tuesday jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption probe ordered his incarceration, his party and prosecutors said. A prosecutor speaking on condition of anonymity and the spokesman of the former president’s party Djibril Ould Bilal confirmed his detention without citing the reason. Aziz has…
Presence of foreign mercenaries, troops in war-torn country and elections to top meeting’s agenda. World powers are meeting in Berlin on Wednesday to seek lasting peace in Libya by ensuring the conflict-racked North African country stays firmly on the path towards general elections on December 24. Representatives of Libya’s interim government will join US Secretary…
Sudan, Egypt want international community to intervene ahead of Ethiopia’s plans to go ahead with the second filling of the dam this summer. Sudan has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet and discuss a dispute over a giant dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile. Ethiopia is pinning its hopes of…
Vote counting in Ethiopia was still under way on Tuesday following Monday’s parliamentary elections. National Election Board of Ethiopia’s Solyana Shimeles told reporters the turnout was impressive, but declined to give figures. “We have done with the election day yesterday and which was largely peaceful except for two polling stations where we had some incidents,…
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – Oscar-winning actor Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited a refugee camp in Burkina Faso sheltering thousands of Malians who have fled jihadist violence in the region. Jolie visited the camp at Goudebou, in the north-east of the landlocked west African country, as part of her role as an ambassador for the UN…
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal abolished the death penalty in April, the most notable decision against capital punishment since the South African Constitutional Court found the penalty unconstitutional in 1995. The Malawian decision is significant because Malawi’s constitution specifically provides for the death penalty (in Article 16), unlike the unqualified right to life in the South African constitution. The…
Is it a major step on the road to democracy, or will Ethiopia’s first general election under Abiy Ahmed be remembered as another marker of the tension that’s barred nearly one in five citizens from casting a ballot? We ask why conflict has spiralled in the Tigray region under a leader rewarded just two years ago…
Congolese Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso acknowledged on Monday the financial difficulties his country is facing, and promissed to reduce a debt that has recently increased. “Our financial difficulties, compounded by the health crisis, have increased our debt and reduced our ability to service it. We must therefore do everything possible to make the public…
The World Health Organization is in talks to create the first-ever technology transfer hub for Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa, a move that would boost supply to the African continent that’s desperately in need of doses. The new consortium will include drug makers Biovac and Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the…
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