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The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday called on Tanzania to take measures to protect its own citizens but also the people of countries visited by Tanzanians from the Covid-19 pandemic. “Many Tanzanians travelling to neighbouring countries and beyond have tested positive for Covid-19. This shows the need for Tanzania to take robust measures to protect both… Read More

A graft case involving South Africa’s ruling party’s secretary general has been adjourned to August 11, as the case was moved to the high court in Bloemfontein. Ace Magashule and his 15 co-accused will face 74 charges of fraud, theft, corruption, money laundeering and the asbestos roof project scandal, local media report. He said he had done nothing wrong and… Read More

Polls opened in Niger on Sunday as voters go to pick a new president in a runoff election set to mark the first-ever transfer of power through the ballot box in the country. Mohamed Bazoum, an ally of incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou, received 39% of the vote in the first round of votes in December. He now faces a single… Read More

At least 27 administrators in South Sudan’s Office of the President have contracted Covid-19, the presidency confirmed. South Sudan’s Presidential Press Secretary Ateny Wek Ateny confirmed to Kenya’s daily, The East African that those affected include cooks, drivers and bodyguards. “The number has increased. Many officials tested positive for Covid-19. There are a few junior staff that contracted the virus.… Read More

Niger’s former president Mahamane Ousmane the underdog in the presidential election on Sunday. But Ousmane — 71-years-old — is giving all he’s got in the two-horse race against contender and favourite Mohamed Bazoum who beat Ousmane by 22 points in the first round and is endorsed by the third and fourth-place candidates. Ousmane was president from 1993-1996 and ousted by… Read More

Niger will choose between two heavyweights in a presidential run-off vote on Sunday set to bring about the first democratic transition of power in the coup-prone country’s history. Niger struggles with a poor economy and with jihadist insurgencies that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria. Despite these crushing burdens, the country is on track for a peaceful handover between… Read More

Algeria on Friday released more than 30 pro-democracy activists from jail, including a prominent journalist, in the first batch freed under presidential pardons issued ahead of the second anniversary of a popular uprising. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared in a speech Thursday dozens of pardons in a gesture of appeasement as the Hirak protest movement, which swept former strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika… Read More

The Lekki tollgate in Lagos, Nigeria’s sprawling megacity of 20 million people, has frozen in time since October when security forces shot at peaceful protesters. At least 10 people were killed by security forces on October 20, Amnesty International said at the time, a charge Nigeria’s army has denied. Four months have passed since then, but signs of that brutal… Read More

In remote eastern Sudan, refugee activists are keeping the flame burning for the former rebels who once dominated Ethiopian politics but were ousted from their regional stronghold last year. For nearly three decades, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front marked its February 18 anniversary with military parades and march-pasts in Addis Ababa and Tigray regional capital Mekele. But since it was… Read More

Nigerian security forces on Thursday said they were tracking the armed gang that kidnapped more than 40 people from a school a day earlier, as families and a survivor described how students fled gunfire during the early morning attack. The kidnapping in Kagara in central Niger state was the latest mass abduction in Nigeria, where criminal gangs known as “bandits”… Read More