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Outside a centuries-old stone church in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar, a drama troupe performed skits hailing the military defeat of the former leaders of the country’s Tigray region. As rifle-toting actors danced around chanting actresses, an audience cheered when the troupe denounced the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) as a band of “traitors”. The performance was part of… Read More

Uganda Somewhat Back Online The internet was partially restored in Uganda on Monday almost five days after a near-total blackout was imposed across the East African country ahead of the election that saw President Yoweri Museveni re-elected for a 6th term in office. A vote that main opposition leader Bob Wine has since denounced as fraudulent. Lydia Aoko, a local… Read More

A case of kidnapping now turned normal disapearance. French investigators say Senegal’s best student Diary Sow whom authorities declared missing in Paris since the 8th of January may have voluntarily disapeared. According to the investigators, Sow is safe and sound and the criminal trial has been dropped. The brilliant Senegalese student Diary Sow, in prep class at the Parisian high… Read More

Did Somalia Lose its Soldiers to the Conflict in Tigray? Somalia’s Information Minister Osman Abukar Dubbe on Tuesday denied claims that hundreds of Somali soldiers have been killed while fighting alongside the Ethiopian army against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Appearing on Somali National TV (SNTV), the Minister noted that Ethiopia did not request any troops from Somalia. Referring to… Read More

The Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera officially begun a second term in office on Tuesday January 19 but it is one that is already mirred in huge controversy and conflict. President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s election victory which was confirmed on Monday January 18, by the country’s Constitutional Court has been rejected once again by the opposition. The parties known as… Read More

Zambia-based Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, has agreed to settle claims by Zambian villagers suing the mining conglomerate over pollution, the holding company and lawyers said Tuesday. The villagers filed a claim in London in 2015 against KCM, one of Africa’s largest copper producers, and Vedanta – alleging that effluent from its Nchanga Copper Mine… Read More

“Your neighbour’s survival is also your own”, Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari tells visiting Benin Republic President”. On Tuesday, Nigeria’s Buhari met behind closed doors with President Patrice Talon of Benin Republic at the State House, Abuja and assured him and other west African neighbours of the importance of “Good neighbourliness”. The Nigerian president according to a statement promised to continue… Read More

An agreement that provides for coordination in monitoring merchant ships suspected of violating an arms embargo against Libya by sharing satellite images and exchanging information was signed on Monday. The working arrangement was signed during a virtual ceremony by Frontex’s Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri and Rear Admiral Fabio Agostini, the Commander of Operation IRINI. The meeting was also attended by… Read More

One in three people in the southeast of Madagascar now suffer from severe food insecurity, the the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said. Southern Madagascar is suffering from the worst drought in a decade and the resultant food crisis, worsened by the effects of coronavirus. ”In times of drought, one of the survival strategies is… Read More

A Second Presidential Term for Talon? With less than three months to go before the presidential election in Benin, President Patrice Talon opened the election campaign with an announcement of his candidacy for a second term — supposedly in the spirit of strengthening good governance. A surprise for some in light of the president’s declaration of wanting to serve a… Read More