Tag: politics

Nigeria's main opposition party on Saturday named former vice president Atiku Abubakar as its candidate for the 2023 election to ...

A leading opposition figure in Chad was arrested on Tuesday following violent anti-France protests that sparked warnings from the country's ...

Somalia's new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who was elected after a marathon vote by lawmakers on Sunday, is a former ...

Somalia's international partners on Monday welcomed the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who takes office after months of political ...

For nine years, France was Mali's staunchest ally in its fight against jihadists who have claimed thousands of lives and ...

Many agree with Nigerian writer, poet, and critic Chinua Achebe that politics is a dirty game. I think it is ...

As South Africa on Wednesday marks a key date in the fight against apartheid, one of the last surviving leaders ...

Soaring fuel prices in Morocco have placed billionaire petrol magnate Aziz Akhannouch who is also prime minister at the heart ...

Botswana's former president Ian Khama faces 13 criminal charges, including illegally possessing five firearms, court documents showed on Wednesday. Khama, ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday named a regional central banker to be his vice president and reappointed his ...

DR Congo's top court on Monday tossed out a 13-year jail term handed to a former aide to President Felix ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday blasted vigilante groups for harassing migrants in South Africa, likening their behaviour to strategies adopted ...

Burkina Faso's junta leader has announced the setting up of local committees to seek dialogue with armed jihadist groups and ...

Chad is in need of debt restructuring to help the country's economy, which saw weak growth last year, the IMF ...

A Sudanese protester was killed Thursday as thousands rallied against last year's military coup and worsening living conditions, medics and ...

The speaker of Tunisia's parliament on Thursday rejected President Kais Saied's dissolution of the assembly the previous day. "We consider ...

Zimbabwe's general election is still a year away, but pro-democracy activists say they are worried last weekend's by-elections offered a ...

President Kais Saied has condemned "illegal" meetings of Tunisia's parliament which he suspended last July, saying those responsible for the ...

A Ugandan court has issued an arrest warrant for an award-winning author who fled the country after being charged with insulting ...

A group of Malian political parties has called for an investigation into the "very troubling" death of ex-prime minister Soumeylou ...

More than 2,000 Tunisians rallied on Sunday, the country's independence day, against President Kais Saied and a project he launched ...

Zambia's former president Rupiah Banda died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long battle with colon cancer, ...

Chad's ruling junta on Wednesday changed mediators in talks with the country's armed rebels, a move that sources said pointed ...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said his party had joined an opposition coalition ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections ...

A UN expert on Thursday urged Sudanese forces to stop firing live ammunition and tear gas at anti-coup protesters in ...

A commission created by the junta that seized power in Burkina Faso last month has proposed a 30-month transition period ...

Guinea-Bissau's former prime minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira, has been banned from leaving the country due to a probe into an ...

At 47, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, has spent half his life hitting out at ...

An award-winning Ugandan author who fled the country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has ...

The International Monetary Fund could stop its program in Somalia in three months if long-postponed national elections encounter fresh delays, ...