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Ethiopia on Tuesday said it would release dozens of high-profile prisoners from jail, including opposition activists held over an alleged coup and other high-ranking government critics. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office said investigations had been dropped against 63 individuals and they would be released from custody later this week “for the national good”. “The Ethiopian government hopes to… Read More

The African continent is the world leader in plastic bag regulations. Uganda, a country in East Africa, has some of those regulations. Yet, more than 600 tonnes of plastic are used every day in the country blocking drainage and causing havoc. Sandra Suubi, a sound and visual artist decided to do something about this. Read More

HIV-positive women in South Africa have been forced to accept sterilization in some public hospitals, according to a report released by the Commission for Gender Equality on Monday. According to the report, doctors in some hospitals have sterilized dozens of women about to undergo cesarean sections. They told them that women with HIV should not have children and that they… Read More

Residents of Mudzi, localed some 230 kilometres in the northeast of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare say access to basic food is their biggest challenge. Their plight has been compounded over severe drought in Southern Africa, coupled with poor farming season. “The life we are living is very tough, there is too much hunger. On top of that, my husband is… Read More

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who was forced to resign after the 2011 popular uprising, died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in the Galaa military hospital in Cairo, his brother-in-law General Mounir Thabet told AFP. The once burly autocrat with the trademark sunglasses, who became witheringly frail after multiple surgeries towards the end of his life, spent years… Read More

Guinea’s electoral authorities were on Monday warned by the international association of French-speaking countries which shared concerns over the credibility of the electoral register in the country’s upcoming polls. The warning from the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) came six days before elections condemned by the opposition as a ploy by President Alpha Conde to stay in office. The… Read More

Mauritania will on Tuesday take over the rotating presidency of the G5 Sahel, which coordinates the anti-jihadism fight of five countries in the region. “Mauritania is a player which was able to overcome terrorism in 2011,” said a French source. “We expect a lot from their presidency.” To Mauritania’s east, the death toll in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso has… Read More

The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 7, 2020. Cases have since been confirmed in several other Asian countries, Europe and the United States. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a public health emergency of international dimensions. WHO chief Tedros Ghebereyesus said whiles China had a robust health system to detect and… Read More

Ivory Coast’s AFCON 2021 qualifier campaign may have been thrown in jeopardy with the sudden departure of coach Ibrahim Kamara. Also on the program, CAF club competitions- the Champions League and the Confederation Cup enter their quarterfinal stage. We have the complete list of fixtures as giants prepare to settle old scores. These and more stories on Football Planet. Read More

We begin in Togo where the National Independent Electoral Commission announced on Sunday night that Head of State Faure Gnassingbé has been largely re-elected in the first round of the presidential election held on Saturday. According to the electoral commision, official preliminary results show the Togolese leader to have garnered 72.36% of the votes, far ahead of the opposition candidate… Read More