Monthly Archives: September, 2018

Drawing cartoons or producing writing that “humiliates” a government official is now a criminal offense in Rwanda, a new law says.Journalists say the law that took effect on Thursday will greatly affect work that is meant to hold public...

Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, the first major protest against the leadership of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore."No to insecurity, terrorism, to corruption, to unemployment," chanted the protesters in...

The United Nations has invited Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front to talks in December on ending their decades-old conflict over Western Sahara, diplomats said Saturday.UN envoy Horst Koehler, a former president of Germany and ex-director of the International...

Congo’s opposition leaders warned thousands of supporters at a rally in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday of what they say are moves by the government to steal the presidential election in December, when Joseph Kabila is due to step...

An Egyptian court has sentenced an activist to two years in jail over a video she posted on social media criticizing the government for failing to protect women against sexual harassment and over poor living conditions, her lawyer said. Amal...

Ethiopian officials have revoked land leases in Addis Ababa that were held by dozens of investors, including Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi.A total of 412.6 hectares of land have been returned to the Addis Ababa Land Bank and...

Tea workers in Kenya have filed a case against multi-national company Unilever in the UK's Supreme Court for allegedly failing to protect them during the violence that followed the 2007 elections in which over 1,000 people were killed.They say...

Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party leader, Nelson Chamisa, has reportedly criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he offered US President Donald Trump a piece of land in Victoria Falls to build a state of the art golf...

Congolese President Joseph Kabila has called on UN peacekeepers to leave his country, lambasting two decades of inaction. Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Kabila vowed to "oppose any interference in the electoral process under way" stating...

Detectives in Kenya were on Wednesday looking for television journalist Jacque Maribe as investigations into the murder of a woman last week in Nairobi's Kilimani neighbourhood gathered steam.Ms Maribe is the fiancée of Mr Joseph Irungu, the prime suspect...