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Zambian Prisoners Have Voting Rights Officials with Zambia’s Electoral Commission have been holding voter registration drives in an effort to register over 16,000 inmates across the country’s prisons ahead of the presidential elections scheduled for August 2021. Flackson Mtonga, an inmate at Lusaka Central Correctional Facility, is happy to be able to exercise his right to vote as a Zambian… Read More

Chaos at a Stadium in Galkayon City Several people were left dead and wounded Friday in a suicide bombing at the entrance of a crowded stadium in the southern part of Galkayon city Somalia, where Prime Minister Rooble Mohammed Hussein had been expected. The attack has taken at least 16 lives — including a dozen civilians and several three high-ranking… Read More

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met the hundreds of schoolboys who were released after a week of being held captive by gunmen in Katsina state. Earlier during an interview with state TV, Buhari said security forces had not done enough to protect civilians from attacks by armed groups. Photos from President @MBuhari’s meeting with the rescued students of the… Read More

Mali on Lockdown In light of the daily average of 150 new covid-19 infections overwhelming hospitals this month in Mali, the government has put a coronavirus prevention measure into effect Harouna Mamadou Toureh, the Minister of Public Service and a government spokesperson addressed the media at a press conference on Friday. “The state of emergency is adopted this Friday, December… Read More

As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Mozambique, with hundreds of thousands fleeing a deadly Islamist insurgency, the United Nations launched an appeal on Friday for $254 million. A group known locally as Al-Shabab unleashed a violent campaign in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province in 2017 that has since killed more than 2,300 people and forced up to 420,000 to flee,… Read More

A survey conducted by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has shown that a predominant majority (79% average) of respondents in Africa would take a COVID-19 vaccine if it were deemed safe and effective. Conducted between August and December 2020, the survey interviewed more… Read More

Congolese boxer Junior Makabu Ilunga will be looking to defend his WBC cruiserweight belt against Nigeria’s Olanrewaju Durodola at the Kinshasa arena on Saturday. The 33 year-old nicknamed the “Leopard” of Kananga will also be going for his 26th victory in 28 professional fights. The bout had been postponed several times due to the pandemic. It will be Makabu’s second… Read More

In a bid to develop better migration policies and programmes, The African Migration Observatory opened in in the Moroccan capital Rabat on Friday. The platform, launched by the African Union, will gather important migration data and aims to link African countries to improve migration policies. “Today, Africa will have its own data, this will allow us to disprove several myths… Read More

The flamboyant Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko has officially been impeached after the members of the Kenya’s Senate voted overwhelmingly to kick him out of the office The senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of four chanrges brought againt the governor which includes gross violation of the constitution, abuse of office, misconduct and crimes against national law. 27 senators supported the… Read More

Coronavirus testing centres in South Africa are filling up as the country that has the most cases on the continent went into a second wave of the pandemic this month. Experts fear COVID could spread even more during the festive period with people travelling across provinces for Christmas and New Year. South Africa has reported over 88,000 cases since the… Read More