Chad’s main opposition parties on Wednesday denounced what they called an “institutional coup d’etat” after the shock death of newly re-elected president Idriss Deby Itno and his replacement by son Mahamat. Around 30 opposition formations “call for the installation of a transition led by civilians… through inclusive dialogue,” the parties said in a statement. They…
South Africa’s rand weakened marginally on Wednesday, as worries about a resurgence of COVID-19 cases hurt global markets and as local investors awaited inflation data for cues on the economy. At 0534 GMT, the rand traded at 14.3250 versus the dollar, 0.14% weaker than its New York close on Tuesday. Asian shares and U.S. stock…
When Ghana received 50,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from India last month, it hit a frustrating roadblock: it had not trained enough staff to distribute them. The country was still rolling out shots received in late February from the global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX, and didn’t have the capacity to expand that operation, according to the head…
Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi said on Wednesday the government will work to restore peace in the country after a deadly militant attack last month near multi-billion-dollar gas projects backed by global oil companies. “We will make all efforts to return peace to our country, in particular in the north, in Cabo Delgado which in recent…
CAPE TOWN – Authorities in Nigeria’s Katsina State say dogs and prayer sessions will be part of a new security set-up to protect students at schools from criminals. This comes in the wake of several attacks on schools over the past few months that have seen hundreds of students kidnapped by armed forces in exchange…
Glencore’s current CEO Ivan Glasenberg will soon be stepping down, to be replaced by Gary Nagle at the end of June. Glencore, the Swiss mining and trading giant that is particularly active in the DRC’s copper and cobalt sectors, has offered Nagle a salary of up to $10.4m a year. This amount, which consists of…
Nigeria’s President Buhari recently returned from the UK, where he went for medical check-up. So who was running the country? Here are ten of the team running Nigeria: from family, to longtime Buhari-loyalists, to those more recent arrivals with a talent for seizing the moment. General Muhammadu Buhari’s Damascene conversion to multi-party democracy won him…
The death of President Idriss Déby Itno, who had been in power for 30 years and was a key Western partner against jihadists in the Sahel, has opened a period of uncertainty in Chad, where rebels have vowed to march on the capital N’Djamena. A Transitional Military Council (TMC) chaired by General Mahamat Idriss Déby,…
In open letter, over 250 NGOs call on governments to intervene as inequality coupled with the COVID crisis has led to an acute food crisis. More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year. In an open…
President Idriss Déby Itno, who has ruled Chad for 30 years, was re-elected for a sixth term with 79.32 percent of the vote, according to official results released Monday shortly after the army said it had defeated a rebellion launched on election day April 11 and killed “more than 300 enemies. The turnout was 64.81…