The CEO in East Africa of fuel supplier Rubis was expelled from Kenya after days of fuel shortage. On Thursday, the Energy Cabinet Secretary pointed the finger at companies “diverting cargo earmarked for local use for export”. Rubis assured its efforts were directed to supplying the Kenyan market. Kenyan motorists endured yet another day of…
The party of former president Alpha Condé said late Thursday ait suspended its participation in the national conference. To explain its move, the RPG cited the detentions of several party leaders which it calls “arbitrary”. Guinea’s former ruling party the RPG will no longer take part in the national conference. The party of former president…
Summary Witnesses say white men present at massacre spoke Russian Russia’s Wagner Group recently joined with Malian forces UN has accused Wagner of abuses elsewhere in Africa Western powers worried Mali may destabilise further BAMAKO, April 14 (Reuters) – It was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian troops backed…
Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans. Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via boat crossings. BBC home…
Somalia’s new MPs are due to be sworn in shortly following a unique election for its parliament – known as the House of the People. But the people did not vote in a poll that has been dragging on for a record four months – more than double the time it took to pull off India’s…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called it “a catastrophe of enormous proportions” . South Africa’s leader was visiting survivors in one of the townships in the city of Durban which has been struck by floods and mudslides stoked by record rains. At least 300 people have died after roads and hillsides were washed away and homes…
Approximately 4,800 people have fled their homes in Central Nigeria following the deadly attacks last Sunday, according to a government spokesperson. Groups of gunmen on motorcycles overran five villages of Plateau state shooting people in every direction and burning houses during the weekend, killing more than 100 people. People fled from Kyaram, Gyambau, Dungur, Kukawa…
After loosing everything because of devastating floods in and around the Eastern South African city of Durban, some residents are trying to find shelter in the underground halls of hostels. Mobheki Sokhela is volunteering in one of those places in Durban’s Umlazi township and says a lot of people will have to settle on chairs…
At least 23 people have been killed in armed attacks on two communities in central Nigeria’s Benue state on Monday, a state official said on Tuesday. Gunmen invaded on Monday night two communities of the state, the Mbadwem community in Guma local government area and the Tiortyu community in Tarka local government area, respectively, killing…
South Sudan’s government has announced the creation of a unified armed forces command, implementing a key provision of the 2018 peace deal that observers hope will ease the country’s recovery from years of war. The country has struggled to draw a line under a five-year civil war between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and…