Kenyan authorities suspended television and radio stations on Tuesday as supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga watched him take a symbolic presidential oath in a Nairobi park in a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Security forces made no move...
More than two thousand supporters of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga gathered on Tuesday in a Nairobi park where he was due to take the presidential oath in an act of protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kenyatta was sworn in...
Nigeria’s air force killed at least 35 people in attacks on villages in the northeastern state of Adamawa in December, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
Residents of the villages described being fired upon by a fighter jet...
Jobless, restless and frustrated, 24-year-old Saikou Jammeh persuaded his father to sell the family home and give up his life savings to pay for the journey from Gambia to Europe.
Jammeh saw no future for himself in Gambia, a tiny...
Liberia’s newly sworn-in President George Weah pledged to cut his own salary by a quarter on Monday, in a nationwide address in which he warned of tough times ahead for a “broke” country.
“The state of the economy that my...
Libya should not rush into holding elections as part of U.N.-led efforts to end years of conflict and division in the North African nation, a senior African Union official said on Monday.
The United Nations has said it wants to...
China and the African Union dismissed on Monday a report in French newspaper Le Monde that Beijing had bugged the regional bloc’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.
An article published Friday in Le Monde, quoting anonymous AU sources, reported that...
Three children were killed in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday by unexploded ordnance in the city.
"Unexploded ordnance killed three children when they were playing near the social security building," Benghazi's Joint Central Security Chamber said in...
When Prof. Chukwuemeka Francis Ezeonu was appointed to man INEC Imo State office as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, in July 2017; the distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Environmental Toxicology came prepared, not just from the world of books, research...
A company helping to produce a new voter roll for Zimbabwe has accused the election commission of “impropriety” in its handling of tenders, potentially tarnishing the credibility of a poll meant to usher in a new era of transparency...
