Angola’s ex-president Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Tuesday arrived in the southern Africa nation from Spain, the first time he has returned home since retiring, the state press agency said. Dos Santos left the country in 2019 after handing the reigns over the previous year, to President Joao Lourenco, who has since targeted the former…
Campaigners in the South African city of Cape Town are trying to halt the building of the African headquarters for Amazon. It’s a battle that pits cultural concerns against economic interests, as the BBC’s Vumani Mkhize writes. It is an overcast day in Cape Town and the scenic Table Mountain is shrouded in a ghostly…
Revocant Karemangingo, the businessman who was gunned down in Mozambique on Monday, was a lieutenant serving in Rwanda’s army that was ousted in 1994. He fled to Mozambique when Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took power after toppling the genocidal government. Karemangingo settled in Maputo as a refugee and became a prominent businessman in pharmaceuticals. While…
The United Nations expects civilians to return to power within a “reasonable” time frame in Guinea, but says Guineans must decide how long the transition will last after last week’s coup, the UN secretary-general’s special representative said Monday in Conakry. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, special representative of Antonio Guterres for West Africa and the Sahel, told…
The victims of Mount Nyiragongo are still homeless almost five months since the volcano erupted, destroying their homes and crop fields. They had found shelter in a school but have been evicted ahead of the start of a new term. The families which number about 160 have now set up makeshift tents in the backyard…
More than a week after a military coup ousted Guinean strongman Alpha Condé, junta boss Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya has requested talks to form a transitional government. FRANCE 24 reports from the capital, Conakry. Guinea is holding a four-day conference this week to prepare a transition back to civilian democratic rule following a September 5 military coup led by…
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has announced the country’s first woman defence minister. Stergomena Tax replaces Elias Kwandikwa, who died in August. The president also revoked the appointment of three cabinet ministers and appointed a new attorney general. Those sacked are the Communication Minister Faustine Ndugulile, Leonard Chamuriho (transport) and Medard Kalemani (energy). President Suluhu brought…
Confronting harassment by Kenyan Twitter influencers – recently revealed to have been paid to promote misinformation – is akin to dealing with guerrilla warfare, admits an activist involved in a legal battle to stop a change to the constitution. “It is waged against you until it tires you out,” Daisy Amdany told the BBC about…
A leading figure in Guinea’s opposition on Saturday urged regional bloc ECOWAS not to impose economic sanctions on Guinea’s new military regime, describing the recent coup as a “welcome development”. “The junta does not deserve to be sanctioned because it put an end to a situation of lawlessness,” former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo told…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday his intention to introduce a “vaccine passport”, amid widespread mistrust of the Covid-19 vaccine in the continent’s most affected country. In a televised address to the nation, Mr. Ramaphosa assured that the immunization of the adult population was a necessary prerequisite to fully reopen the economy and…