Mozambique extends state of emergency
Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday prolonged by a month the state of emergency ordered on April 1 to try to slow the spread of coronavirus infections. “We concluded that…
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Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday prolonged by a month the state of emergency ordered on April 1 to try to slow the spread of coronavirus infections. “We concluded that…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead man into office, naming the late Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru as a board member for a government agency, two months after he died.…
Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, a week after the tribunal ordered the West African nation to suspend an arrest warrant against presidential hopeful…
Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist, Denis Goldberg, who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87. As a member of the ANC’s military wing, he was…
A Kenyan court has upheld the ban on an award-winning film about a lesbian love story. Rafiki, meaning “friend” in Swahili, was banned by the Kenya Film and Classification Board…
The arrival of more than 200 Cuban medics in South Africa to help battle coronavirus has received mixed reactions, with some of the sharpest criticism coming from the South African…
Mozambique’s security forces have killed nearly 130 Islamist militants in the past three weeks, the government says. Interior Minister Amad Miquidade said the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado was…
An Ivorian court on Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, who has been living in exile since December 2019, to 20 years in prison for corruption. This ruling is…
An award-winning conservationist says she fears for the future of some of the world’s most endangered chimps. Devastated by hunting and deforestation, they now face a threat from coronavirus, says…
Several hundred Burkinabè traders demonstrated in Ouagadougou on Monday to demand the reopening of all the markets, which were closed at the end of March to combat the spread of…