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A baby has died of Marburg in Ghana as health authorities clarify the figures of those killed by the virus that is from the same family as Ebola. This brings to two the total number of people who have died in Ghana in the current outbreak. The 14-month-old’s father was the first person to have died in the country, The… Read More

In this interview, the Prime Minister of Chad, Albert Pahimi Padacké, answers our questions on the security, economic and political challenges facing his country. He discusses the national reconciliation dialogue scheduled for August, the end of the political transition, inflation and the withdrawal of Mali from the G5 Sahel. Sourced from Africanews Read More

Two leaders of a collective that organised demonstrations that left five people dead, according to the justice minister, were charged and imprisoned after appearing on Monday before an examining magistrate at a court in the suburbs of Conakry. On Thursday and Friday, bloody demonstrations against the junta, banned by the authorities, resulted in “five deaths many injured civilians and soldiers… Read More

Somalia has appointed the former deputy leader and spokesman for the Al-Shabaab Islamist group as religion minister, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Tuesday. The announcement marks a sharp reversal of fortune for Muktar Robow, who has spent the last four years under house arrest after a falling-out with ex-president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known as Farmajo. Robow, 53, publicly… Read More

A Congolese military delegation was sent to Beni, northeastern DRC this Tuesday, two days after three people died and several were injured after UN peacekeepers opened fire on civilians in Kasindi at the border with Uganda. “The government cannot abandon its people, that is why I am here and visiting the wounded while we are waiting for them to receive appropriate… Read More

Kenya is heading to another general election on Tuesday the 9th of August, 2022. East Africa’s main economic powerhouse is presented with the dilemma to elect one of the four presidential candidates.  The main two contenders are the Former premier Raila Odinga and current Deputy President William Ruto. A lot of issues are at stake in this election. Now take… Read More

Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for slavery reparations to Africa and the African diaspora. Speaking at the Reparations and Racial Healing Summit on Monday (August 1), President Akufo-Addo said these reparations were “long overdue” and needed to be intensified. He questioned doubled standards in the debate when it came to other races and ethnic groups that were… Read More

The first arrests have been made following the massacre of 32 people in a Madagascar village by cattle rustlers last week. The bandits burned 32 people alive, including women and 15 children, on Friday when they set fire to homes in the village of Ambolotarakely, about 75 kilometres north of the capital Antananarivo. A source in the local gendarmerie said… Read More

The presidential camp and the opposition each stood firm on Monday in claiming to have won Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Senegal, as the vote count continued. “What is undeniable is that we are the ones who won this election,” said Khalifa Sall, one of the opposition leaders, during a press conference of his coalition. “We won and we will not… Read More

UN chief Antonio Guterres said he was “outraged” after two people were killed and several others injured when UN peacekeepers opened fire during an incident in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the Uganda border on Sunday. The UN force MONUSCO, admitted that some of its peacekeepers had opened fire “for unexplained reasons”, adding that arrests had already been… Read More