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Police in Lesotho on Tuesday were searching for the country’s first lady for questioning in the 2017 killing of the prime minister’s former wife, while the police commissioner said the “noose” was tightening around the prime minister and those close to him as an investigation continues. The killing of Lipolelo Thabane occurred two days before Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s inauguration… Read More

Incidents in Guinea continue to escalate as security forces clash with protesters seeking President Alpha Conde to step down before elections slated for this year. Two police stations were torched by irate protesters in the town of Pita. As at Wednesday, reports confirmed that another victim had died in the protests bringing to two the number of deaths. A 21-year-old… Read More

Former presidential candidate of the DR Congo, Martin Fayulu has called for a march on January 17 in the capital, Kinshasa to mourn the killing of civilians in Beni. Fayulu also calls on Rwanda “to acknowledge the killings its army orchestrated in Congo.” The former lawmaker is the most visible opposition voice in the country after December 2018 polls were… Read More

A Ugandan minister has attracted ridicule and condemnation of citizens on social media after his comments on bad roads not been entirely bad as thought. Henry Okello Oryem, the state minister for Foreign Affairs is reported by the privately-owned New Vision newspaper as telling lawmakers that bad roads were not entirely to blame for Uganda’s low tourist figures as compared… Read More

Eritrea officially protested what it says was a overstatement of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the historic peace deal signed in July 2018. A statement published by the Ministry of Information said Saudi’s Minister of State for Africa in an interview made inaccurate allusions over the role of the Middle East giant in the Asmara agreement. Eritrea president and Ethiopian Prime… Read More

Anger in Mali following a pledge by France and its five nation partners in the Sahel to bolster efforts against jihadists. These nations are bent on trumping out jihadists over increasing deadly insurgency in the Sahel region. In Bamako, the capital city of Mali residents say they’re uninspired. We Africans, and specifically Malians, are truly disappointed by the reaction of… Read More

Ankara has warned Libya’s Khalifa Haftar against continuous attack on the capital Tripoli. The Turkish president Recep Tayyib Erdogan gave the warning during an address to his ruling party’s legislators Tuesday. He extolled Fayez Sarraj, head of Libya’s UN-backed government, saying he had displayed a positive stance during peace talks in Moscow. We will never refrain from giving Haftar the… Read More

Spanish champions Barcelona has sacked its coach Ernesto Valverde and appointed Quique Setien, the club announced Monday. The decision to remove Valverde was confirmed following a board meeting that last over 4 hours. Barca top the La Liga, but have only won one of their last five matches. Valverde is the first coach the club has sacked mid-season since Louis… Read More

The Zimbabwean government through the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development said it was going to start (as of January 14, 2020) paying an allowance to civil servants in the light of biting economic crisis. A statement from the ministry said the “Cushioning Allowance” was as the name implies meant to “cushion members of the Public Service from the adverse… Read More

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi met with Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his visit to the southern African country as part of his Africa tour. Relations between the two countries has been strong as Harare continues to look East with biting sanctions from the West – the European Union and the united States. Despite being on vacation, President Mnangagwa made… Read More