ActionAid Nigeria has expressed displeasure over the proposed bill to impose Communication Service Tax (CST) up to 9% on all phone calls, short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), data Packages, and pay television demanding the termination of...
A group of Mauritanian anti-slavery activists who were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison are appealing, but fear a system they believe is rigged against them. On August 19, a tribunal in the capital city of Nouakchott...
Gabon's main opposition candidate Jean Ping said Sunday he had won a presidential election, beating the incumbent Ali Bongo. Official results of Saturday's vote are due out on Tuesday. "I have been elected. I am waiting for the outgoing...
Tunisia's new Prime Minister Youssef Chahed and members of his cabinet were sworn in on Saturday, the presidency said, after approval from parliament. The prime minister and his 26 ministers swore to "work devotedly for the good of Tunisia"...
Crunch talks between the DR Congo government and opposition will start next week, aimed at avoiding political chaos when the president's term expires late this year, an African Union mediator said Saturday. Congo's opposition had originally spurned the talks,...
South Africa's wealthy Gupta family, which has been accused of holding undue political sway over President Jacob Zuma, said on Saturday it planned to dispose of all stakes it holds in South African businesses before the end of the...
Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organization as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern village of Chibok in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday. Buhari first...
Gabon's President Ali Bongo is looking to extend his family's rule past the 50-year mark by winning a second term in an election Saturday, but a last-minute pact between feuding opponents has given the race a measure of suspense....
South Sudan opposition leader, Riek Machar, has left hospital but will remain in Khartoum for some time, Sabt Makkouk, an aide accompanying Machar, said on Friday. Sudan's Information Minister announced on August 23 that Machar, who left South Sudan...
Democratic Republic of Congo will free five pro-democracy activists in the next few days, the justice minister said on Friday, to try to appease the opposition and ease negotiations over an election timetable after a delayed presidential vote. Opponents...
