Month: June 2019

Congolese opposition figure and former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived discreetly in Kinshasa on Sunday morning for his second return to the Democratic Republic of Congo in less than a year after being convicted and acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and serving ten years in prison. Upon his descent from a private jet from Brussels, Mr. Bemba was welcomed… Read More

A gang of armed robbers stole 500 loaves of bread during a delivery at a bakery in Zimbabwe earlier this week. According to The Chronicle news portal, a crew from Lobel’s Bakery was making deliveries at Speciman Shopping Centre in Harare’s Glen Norah suburb on Tuesday. An unmarked vehicle reportedly suddenly pulled up in front of their van. Armed with… Read More

Ethiopia’s army chief of staff, General Seare Mekonnen and at least three other senior officials have been killed during a coup attempt by an army general in the northern state of Amhara, state television said on Sunday. Amhara’s state president Ambachew Mekonnen and his advisor were also killed, according to state media, which named the region’s security head, General Asamnew… Read More

The weekend has been marred by series of violence with demonstrators burning tires again in Omdurman, not far from the capital Khartoum. The protesters are not relenting on their demands to see the military exit and power handed over to a civilian authority. Earlier on Saturday, they said they were ready to follow Ethiopia’s proposed path to a smooth political… Read More

Mauritania began counting ballots on Saturday (June 22) evening of its presidential election, as the ruling party claimed its candidate was poised to win a landslide victory. The election was the first in Mauritania’s history since independence from France in 1960 to choose a successor to a democratically-elected president. Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, a former general and defence minister, was heavily… Read More

The presidential candidate for Mauritania’s ruling party, Mohamed Cheikh El-Ghazouani, has declared himself the winner of the country’s general elections on Saturday night in the first round, while the results were still being compiled. Mr. Ghazouani made this statement before dawn in front of a crowd of his supporters, after an election vigil in the presence of outgoing President Mohamed… Read More

Oil, one of the world’s biggest source of income as well as trouble. Senegal being the latest country to be afflicted. On Friday, thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Dakar to protest oil contracts condemned as fraudulent. A new demonstration following accusations of corruption against the Senegalese President’s brother. Aliou Sall, the president’s younger brother, is… Read More

Presidential candidates from the opposition parties in Mauritania have called for transparency in the electoral process as voting kicked off on Saturday. The politicians sighted fear in electoral fraud.Mauritania’s biggest Islamist party Tawassoul’s candidate, Former Prime Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar expressed his concerns for the elections and hopes of the process not being “sullied by vice”. “We continue to… Read More