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“They are going to arrest us because I cannot pretend to be what I am not,” said Alex, a gay man in Uganda, where MPs last week passed what has been criticised as among the world’s harshest anti-gay legislation. The proposed law, known as the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, is ready to be sent to President Yoweri Museveni, who is facing… Read More

Senegal’s top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was convicted on Thursday for defamation and insults against the Minister of Tourism. Sonko’s lawyer claims there is a political agenda behind the court’s decision. “I have said that ‘politics’ is in the courthouse and that it is losing its right (rule of law) and its understanding. But even if the defendant is not… Read More

Vice president Kamala Harris will arrive in Lusaka, Zambia on Friday for the final stop of her weeklong trip across Africa. She is expected to see the new airport that’s doubled in size. Rather than a symbol of promising local development, it’s a reminder of China’s deep influence there. Beijing financed the project, one of many that has expanded its… Read More

The provisional toll of the Marburg virus disease epidemic that has been raging for more than two months in Equatorial Guinea stands at nine confirmed deaths, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Equatorial Guinea to report cases of the Marburg virus to it due to fears of more widespread contamination… Read More

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal releases his first album in seven years, “Being,” on March 31st. “I’m so happy to be able share some piece of music with people and I was looking for that. But I did take my time to make the songs to become reality and to record them like we did, from Senegal to London to New… Read More

Fourteen people, including students, have died after a university bus collided with a passenger vehicle in Kenya, west of the capital, on Thursday. Police say 12 people died on the spot and two others succumbed on the way to the hospital. The bus had 30 people on board and the death toll may rise, Rift Valley Police Chief Tom Odera… Read More

A contingent of one thousand troops departed Uganda on Wednesday heading to the eastern part of the DRC. The Ugandan troops will be operating under the regional East Africa Community force that includes Burundi and Kenya. Hundreds of residents from both sides of the border between Uganda and the DRC attended the flag-off ceremony. Uganda’s contingent is led by colonel… Read More

Sporadic violence broke out in Kenya on Thursday, the third day of opposition demonstrations to protest at the government and the high cost of living. Security was tight, with police in riot gear patrolling the capital Nairobi after fierce clashes had erupted during similar protests on Monday. On Thursday, dozens of people in the congested Nairobi neighbourhoods of Mathare and… Read More

US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Tanzania on Thursday and praised the country’s first female leader as a “champion” of democracy. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan has been in power since 2021 and is the first female leader of the country. Since coming to power president Hassan has been rolling back the authoritarian policies of her late predecessor John… Read More

The death toll from Cyclone Freddy, which dissipated in mid-March after massive flooding and landslides in southern Africa, could exceed 1,200 in Malawi as hopes dwindle of finding survivors, police and authorities said Thursday. The cyclone killed at least 676 people in Malawi, the epicenter of the disaster. And the country’s disaster management department says the chances of finding the… Read More