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South Africa’s main opposition party has accused its main radical left rival of inciting hatred by singing a famous controversial anti-apartheid chant and shutting the door on any broad coalition ahead of the elections next year. It was during a Saturday rally that Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), sang “Kill the Boer, the Farmer” to some… Read More

A Ghanaian student in the United States of America, Derrick Boadi Sakyi, has had his scholarship withdrawn following his involvement in hateful attacks against LGBT Ghanaians on Twitter. A Ghanaian LGBT activist known as Papa Kojo exposed the attacks after receiving a threat from Sakyi. Papa Kojo’s search showed that Sakyi had just started a PhD program in Biological Science… Read More

The party of the embattled Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, PASTEF, has criticized the latest move by the government to open up new charges against him. They termed the move as anti-democratic after the government on Monday charged and imprisoned Sonko on Monday for various crimes, including a call for insurrection which, according to the authorities, led to deaths. Sonko’s… Read More

In a move considered a tactical way to protect the recent regime change in Niger, Mali’s military Junta said Monday that they stand to support the coup leaders in Niamey. Mali said that they stand together with Burkina Faso to defend Niger and further warned that any foreign military intervention in Niamey will be considered a declaration of war on… Read More

Four ministers, a former minister and the leader of the party of Mohamed Bazoum, president-elect overthrown by a coup on Wednesday, were arrested, according to a press release from the presidential party sent to AFP on Monday. “After the kidnapping of the President of the Republic”, Mohamed Bazoum, “the putschists are returning to the charge and multiplying the abusive arrests”,… Read More

A two-day air show held in main Moroccan cities to celebrate the 24th anniversary of what is known as ‘Throne Day’, has ended. The air show is part of the festivities that mark the anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Mohammed VI, who is also Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces… Read More

Thousands of Ugandans on Monday thronged the palace grounds of the country’s largest kingdom Buganda, defying rain as they danced and ululated to mark 30 years since the coronation of King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. Dressed in traditional attire — with men wearing a white tunic called a “kanzu’ and women donning “bitenge” dresses — the revellers prayed for the… Read More

Leading Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko on Monday was charged with fomenting insurrection and his party dissolved, stoking concerns about further unrest two months after fatal clashes. Sonko, a presidential candidate and President Macky Sall’s fiercest critic, has faced a string of legal woes, which he claims have been designed to keep him out of politics. His sentencing in absentia… Read More

Five people have been shot and killed in Johannesburg in suspected violence between rival gangs of illegal miners, police said on Sunday. The five bodies, believed to be those of illegal miners , were found near an abandoned mine shaft near a suburban slum to the west of Johannesburg. “The preliminary investigation suggests that two rival groups of illegal miners… Read More

In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed on the reddish-brown desert sand. He is barely breathing, and officers try to revive him, gently, with a few drops of water on his lips. The man is just one among hundreds of migrants arriving daily in Libya after being… Read More