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Election materials on Thursday arrived at the Bangui M’poko International Airport in Central African Republic. The materials include ballot boxes, voting booths and voter cards for the first round in presidential and parliamentary elections on December 27. Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, MINUSCA peacekeeping force, Denise Brown is satisfied with progress thus far. “We are extremely satisfied… Read More

Ghana is preparing for its third political showdown between Ghana’s former president John Mahama and incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo on December 7 in what is expected to be a two-horse race. Here is what we know about Mohama. Mohama came to power in 2012 when his predecessor John Atta Mills died and he narrowly defeated his rival Akufo-Addo in an… Read More

The flamboyant Nairobi city governor, Mike Mbuvi Sonko has been impeached by members of the county assembly. 88 members of the county assembly voted to support the impeachment motion while 2 others voted against the move. The embattled governor is being accused of gross violation of the Constitution and other laws, abuse of office, commission of crimes under the national… Read More

A retired French surgeon has been sentenced to 15 years in jail at the end of his closed-doors trial for the rape and sexual abuse of four children in the first part of France’s biggest ever paedophilia case. Joel Le Scouarnec, 70, remained impassive as the verdict was read out on Thursday at the court in Saintes, western France, keeping… Read More

At the moment, Bwayira hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital is not suited to storing the covid19 vaccines which have been most successful in medical trials. Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, which have declared success rates of 90 percent plus, need storing in deep freeze temperatures of minus 20 and minus 80 degrees Celcius respectively. Countries like Malawi face some daunting challenges.… Read More

Regional elections are taking place in Cameroon with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature. Local representatives on Sunday are voting to appoint councils in all 10 regions made up of delegates and traditional rulers. It puts into action a 1996 law that promised decentralised government but was never enacted. Since 2016,… Read More

Defeaning vuvuzelas and party songs took over Ghana’s capital Accra on Saturday, the final day of campaigning ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections. Twelve candidates, including three women, are vying for the west African nation’s top job, but Monday’s vote is essentially a fight between President Nana Akufo-Addo, 76, and former head of state John Mahama. The city centre was… Read More

Kenya’s Kibiwott Kandie smashed the half marathon world file by 29 seconds on Sunday, changing into the primary particular person to interrupt 58 minutes on the Valencia Half Marathon. Kandie, who completed second on the world half marathon championships in Gdynia in October, completed the Spanish annual race in 57 minutes and 32 seconds, breaking the earlier file of 58:01… Read More

Hundreds of medics protest in Tunisia on Friday following the death of a young doctor in a hospital elevator in the Jendouba region of the country’s northwest. Badreddedine Aloui, 26, plunged to his death on Thursday down an elevator shaft after the lift doors opened but with no elevator in place, witnesses said. “He was only 26 years old, he… Read More

Ivory Coast has finally issued passports to former president Laurent Gbagbo, which will allow him to return from exile in Belgium. Gbagbo has been based in Belgium since he was acquitted on war crime charges last year at the International Criminal Court. With his documents in hand, his lawyer says he’s planning to return to the Ivory Coast this month.… Read More