Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered a stern warning on Wednesday to anyone looking to challenge his rule, a day after opposition leaders called for a boycott of the March 26-28 presidential election.
“Be warned. What happened seven or eight...
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Wednesday condemned people who were demanding to see the serial numbers of voter registration slips from people who would have registered under the on-going biometric voter registration exercise.
Several opposition parties and civic organizations...
France's rail operator SNCF on Wednesday lost its appeal against a 2015 ruling that found it guilty of discriminating against hundreds of Moroccan workers in the post-colonial era.
Details of the court ruling were not immediately available, but the SNCF...
A Congolese colonel who threatened to overthrow President Joseph Kabila has been detained in Tanzania, and Congo is seeking his extradition, Congo’s defence minister said on Wednesday.
John Tshibangu, who had been based in the lawless east of the Democratic...
Kenyan police arrested an opposition lawmaker who administered the oath during a symbolic “swearing in” of opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday, an opposition senator said on Wednesday.
“He has been arrested and taken to Nairobi area police headquarters,” James...
Cameroonian troops crossed into neighbouring Cross Rivers State in Nigeria in pursuit of separatist rebels, a Nigerian state defence spokesman and a former community leader said on Wednesday.Cameroon has been fighting Anglophone separatists who have taken up arms over...
The UN agency for children (UNICEF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday requested 268 million U.S. dollars to provide vital humanitarian aid to 6.3 million children in 2018.
According to a statement by the agency, the call comes...
Libya's High Council of State on Tuesday called on the Arab League (AL) to stand firmly against those who obstruct the implementation of a UN-sponsored political agreement.
Abdulrahman Swehli, the head of the council, accused "certain parties in the House...
The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) said Tuesday that they have been doing everything they can to clarify the authenticity of a video footage of terrorists in Mocimboa da Praia, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
In...
Guinea-Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz named a new prime minister late Tuesday, appointing Augusto Antonio Artur Da Silva by decree after the previous PM resigned in a bid to end a political crisis.
The new prime minister's first job will...
