At least three people died in Senegal during protests supporting opposition leader Ousmane Sonko before he was supposed to attend a since postponed rape trial in a court in Dakar on Tuesday. The judge of the criminal chamber of the Dakar high court postponed Sonko’s trial to give lawyers for key witnesses time to go over the court files. The… Read More

The death toll from the “Shakahola massacre” in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where a sect whose leader advocated fasting to “meet Jesus” was meeting, has now risen to 201 after the discovery of 22 new bodies on Saturday, the region’s prefect announced. Police believe that most of the bodies discovered near the coastal town of Malindi are those of… Read More

Namibia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday recognised same-sex marriages contracted abroad between citizens and foreign spouses, a landmark ruling in a country where homosexuality is illegal. The decision overturns a ruling reached last year by the High Court, which refused to accept same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia. Two Namibian nationals had sought recourse from the courts after the ministry of home… Read More

South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced on Tuesday that six African leaders are planning to travel to Ukraine and Russia to help find a solution to the war. Ramaphosa added that Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy had agreed to receive the African peace mission in their respective capitals. “The two leaders that I had occasion to speak… Read More

Italy’s Interior minister Matteo Piantedosi praised Tunisia’s efforts against irregular migration. The comments by the Italian minister follow Monday’s visit to the North African country. The Italian official met with his Tunisian counterpart and also had a meeting with Tunisian President Kais Saied. The leaders discussed the situation in the Mediterranean where crossings have intensified since Saied made a fiery… Read More