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It is coffee time in Uganda. After falling short, the East African country has relaunched an ambitious campaign to become the world’s third-largest exporter of coffee by 2025. After shipping nearly 6 million 60-kilo bags in 2020, Africa’s largest coffee exporter says it can be done. A new law which orders the registration of farmers and the enforcement of standards,… Read More

As the crisis in Sudan’s troubled transition from authoritarian rule deepens, huge crowds of people marched in several parts of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital and other cities on Thursday. The protesters were this time demonstrating against the prospect of military rule, Since the removal of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 in a popular uprising after three decades of rule, the… Read More

Three Kenyan police officers were charged on Friday with helping a “bloodthirsty vampire” child murderer escape from their custody last week, before a mob lynched him over the killings. Masten Milimo Wanjala — a self-confessed serial killer — was arrested on July 14 over the disappearance of two children, but, in a chilling confession, admitted to the brutal murder of… Read More

In a township in Johannesburg, South Africa, volunteers are turning litter into bricks, which are later used to build classrooms for local children. A non-existent budget and need for a new classroom is what sparked the innovative idea for Diana Musara. Musara leads the Khensani’s Collection, an education organisation that offers after school classes to young people in the small… Read More

Somalia leaders agree to ‘accelerate’ election process Somalia’s president and prime minister say they have struck a deal to speed up the process for long-delayed elections, ending a simmering feud that threatened to plunge the Horn of Africa nation into fresh crisis. The two men had locked horns over top security appointments and dismissals in a month-long dispute that stoked… Read More

Some women groups in Benin have welcomed the legalization of abortion in the country. The law on sexual and reproductive health passed late Wednesday October 20 said women will be able to terminate pregnancies up to 12 weeks. Angela Kpéidja is president of a non-governmental organization DO NOT BE AFRAID, which focuses on championing the welfare of women and girls.… Read More

A high-profile case against Nnamdi Kanu, a Nigerian separatist accused of terrorism and treason was adjourned Thursday, lawyers said, after a court appearance under heavy security in the capital Abuja. Kanu, 53, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group, which wants a separate state for the ethnic Igbo people in the southeast, was arrested abroad in June… Read More

South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma on Thursday made his first public appearance since his release from prison on medical parole last month, to lay charges against a chief state prosecutor in his corruption trial. Zuma went to the Pietermaritzburg’s Loop Street Police Station in the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg, where he is on trial for corruption, to open a criminal… Read More

Paulina Chiziane is the winner of the Camões literary Prize 2021. The choice of the Mozambican writer was made unanimously, according to the Portuguese Minister of Culture, Graça Fonseca. For the 66 year old, this is an award she shares with all Mozambicans. “Everything that I tried to write, in the different books, is part of our collective memory. I… Read More

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the MDC Alliance has condemned an attack on its leader Nelson Chamisa. While in his car shortly after a political meeting, Nelson Chamisa was reportedly shot at this time, the second attack in two weeks. The party claims just before the latest attack, a dozen cars without license plates followed Chamisa’s convoy. The MDC alliance accuses… Read More