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The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, who is also the current President of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is on a mission of the 15 nation-bloc in Bamako. He was received by the transitional president Bah Ndaw on Sunday to take stock of the political transition and discuss the next steps to ensure that the deadline of the… Read More

Presidential Platform Promises Before thousands of Zanzibaris at Kibanda Maiti grounds in Unguja, The Zanzibar ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi’s (CCM) presidential candidate, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, kicked off his election campaign on Saturday with a pledge to carry out economic reform and provide ongoing support for the union between the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar and the Tanzanian mainland at a… Read More

#ShutItAllDown Namibian police and the Special Reserve Force fired rubber bullets, teargas and used batons to subdue the unprecedented and three-day nationwide protest staged on Saturday by around 400 mostly young women – who raised their voices against gender-based violence and femicide on the streets of the nation’s capital city, Windhoek. Slogans such as “no justice, no peace” could be… Read More

Back in Business! enegal’s Goree island – a former slave-trading port city turned tourist attraction, opened on Saturday following a seven-month lockdown to protect the roughly 2,000 inhabitants in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. A visitor, Aristide Marius Plonkin, is taken aback by the bareness of the usually crowded island, “It’s a bit crazy to come and look at this… Read More

Opposition Unite! Political opposition leaders and their supporters joined forces in a united front at a rally of over 30,000 at the Felix Houphouet Boigny stadium in Abidjan on Saturday in civil disobedience against the sought perceived unconstitutional third term of current president Alassane Ouattara at the approaching October 31s elections. Yaho Ayo Frederick, a rally attendee, is resolute in… Read More

White South African Farmers are Angry The Union Building lawns in Pretoria, South Africa were covered by several hundred mainly white farmers — some carrying flags and crosses, in angry protest on Saturday of the perceived lack of government response to the assaults and murders on farms in the rural parts of the country. The event organiser, Kallie Roux, shared… Read More

An Economically Unforgiving Pandemic Tens of thousands of Tunisians have lost their jobs in a worsening economic crisis exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic as nearly a third of small to medium-sized businesses face bankruptcy. Ali Ben Rached, owner of the café “La Javanaise,” is frustrated, “If there is no terrace or anything (allowed to be open) in the city, how… Read More

An Unavoidable Subpoena Former South African president Jacob Zuma was ordered on Friday by a judicial panel to testify next month over allegations of state corruption during his nine years in office. The badgered politician is obligated to appear in court before a commission — chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo and set up in 2018 to hear testimony… Read More

In an unprecedented union in the Comoros Islands, the opposition and all civil society movements in both the archipelago and abroad amongst the diaspora have come together to form the new “common front of the living forces against the dictatorship” to denounce a perceived constitutional coup d’état on the part of President Azali Assoumani — who they want to be… Read More

Artists and Activists Members of the internationally successful Ivorian music group Magic System expressed their concern on Friday over mounting political tensions in Côte d’Ivoire in light of the upcoming presidential election in three weeks. Lead singer Salif Traoré, known as A’Salfo and also appointed as UNESCO ambassador for “literacy and culture of peace” in 2012, called on President Alassane… Read More