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Kenya on Friday sentenced two men to 18 years in prison for helping al Shabaab attackers in a 2013 gun raid on the Westgate mall that killed 67 people. Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hussein Hassan Mustafa got 18 years in jail each. Abdi was given an additional 15-year sentence for possessing propaganda that promotes terrorism. “This court has to pass… Read More

Voting is underway in the Ivory Coast as President Alassane Ouattara seeks a third contested term in an election that two of the four candidates have urged their supporters to boycott. The vote is seen as a test of stability as 30 people have been killed in pre-election violence, evoking the memories of the 2010 vote, which unleashed a brief… Read More

Potential Electoral Crisis This Saturday, October 31, 7.5 million Ivorians are called to the polls. The head of an NGO and partner of the IEC expresses reservations about a massive voter turnout at the polls as the violence that has punctuated the election campaign forecasts a turbulent voting day. Lara Mylène Epse Camara, the National Coordinator of WANEP, shared her… Read More

Angola’s “Princess” Has Lost Her Husband Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo — husband since 2002 to the billionaire Isabel Dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and daughter of the former president of Angola, died Thursday in Dubai from a supposed scuba-diving accident. His passing comes amid legal turmoil as with the arrival of current Angolan president João Lourenço in 2017, an avid… Read More

Solomon, Patrick and Samuel were wounded on October 20 during a crackdown by Nigerian security forces on protesters in Lagos who had gathered despite a curfew order. The three say they spent several days at the Lekki toll gate, the epicentre of demonstrations that erupted on October 8 over police violence and bad governance, as they themselves had been victims… Read More

Tanzania’s president John Magufuli was Friday declared winner of a second term amid allegations of widespread election fraud, while the ruling party won an absolute majority in parliament. The national electoral commission late Friday said Magufuli received 12.5 million votes, or 84%, while top opposition candidate Tundu Lissu received 1.9 million, or 13%. Turnout was roughly 50%, with 14.8 million… Read More

Elephant Babies are on the Rise In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, just southeast of Nairobi, Kenya, many at the Amboseli National Park are celebrating what they term an elephant “baby boom” as the park has seen a record-breaking number of elephant calf births so far this year – the most in its history. Cynthia Moss, the founder of Amboseli… Read More

Not Enough Votes Zambia’s ruling party failed on Thursday in its controversial bid for constitutional reform as parliament — after less than the required two-thirds majority of lawmakers voted in favour, failed to pass the bill known as Bill number 10. A bill which would have enabled the current head of state Edgar Lungu to change the electoral layout and… Read More

Tanzania’s main opposition candidate said he would not accept the general election results and alleged fraud. Tundu Lissu alleged on Thursday there were irregularities, including ballot-box stuffing in Wednesday’s vote. He has called on supporters to protest peacefully. Lissu was one of 14 candidates challenging President John Magufuli, whose CCM party has been in power since 1961. Right’s groups have… Read More

Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden have dueled over Florida, a key state for the Republican’s pathway to another term, ahead of the November 3 presidential election. Both campaigned in Tampa, Florida, hours apart, but painted radically different visions of the United States. Trump celebrated a new federal estimate that the economy grew at a stunning 33.1% annual rate… Read More