Tag: politics

A Senegalese judge has ordered a prominent opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, to face trial for alleged rape, lawyers for Sonko ...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading for an 11-day trip to Africa starting this week, aimed at deepening economic ...

An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to life in ...

The US ambassador to Sudan has called on ex-rebels who were not part of an initial post-coup deal to join ...

Anti-apartheid activist Frene Ginwala, the speaker of South Africa's first democratic elected parliament and the first woman to hold the ...

The Polisario movement, which seeks independence in disputed Western Sahara, started meeting Friday for leadership elections in the shadow of ...

Charles Ble Goude, once right-hand man to ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, said Wednesday he wants "to govern Ivory Coast one day," ...

Uganda's Constitutional Court on Tuesday quashed a key part of a controversial internet law which rights groups charged was aimed ...

Benin's electoral officials were tallying ballots Tuesday from a parliamentary vote seen as a key test of democracy in the ...

Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Monday appointed Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze as the new prime minister, tasking him to form a ...

Mauritania's ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who faces a trial for alleged corruption, said on Thursday that he had been ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday lifted a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor, ...

Three prominent Congolese figures, including Nobel winner Denis Mukwege, on Monday accused President Felix Tshisekedi of pushing the country towards ...

Kenyan shop attendant Winnie Wanjiru Mwaura was brimming with hope when she signed up to be an election agent for ...

Tunisian police have arrested former prime minister Ali Larayedh, his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party said Tuesday, accusing authorities of trying to ...

Tunisia's electoral board revised the turnout in parliamentary elections slightly upwards to 11.2 percent on Monday, a poll that opposition ...

Ghana suspended payments on part of its foreign debt on Monday as the country undertakes debt restructuring in line with ...

Judges in London on Monday ruled that the UK government's controversial plan to deport migrants to Rwanda was lawful, after ...

South Africa's ruling ANC was due to elect a new leader this weekend after the country's embattled president Cyril Ramaphosa ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa sought to project confidence and authority on Friday at the opening of a ruling ANC ...

Tunisian President Kais Saied defended his dissolution of parliament in a meeting Wednesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ...

Ports have long been integral to Africa’s connectivity with the rest of the world. Yet over the last 15 years, ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is embroiled in a scandal over an alleged cover-up that has imperiled his political future. ...

Hundreds of Sudanese protesters took to the streets Tuesday to protest a recent deal aimed at ending the crisis caused ...

President William Ruto has asked Azimio leaders to stop  misleading Kenyans on the Hustlers Fund. Speaking during Kenya's 59th Jamhuri ...

Embattled South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a decisive week as a scandal hangs over his future, with an impeachment ...

In the township of Soweto, where South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa grew up and where he visited last year promising ...

Sudan's military and civilian leaders signed Monday an initial deal aimed at ending a deep crisis that has gripped the ...

Ghana offered investors a domestic debt swap on Monday to ease a crunch in payments as the government negotiates an ...

Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union chief took aim Saturday at legislative elections due later this month, claiming they serve no ...