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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is lamenting the incessant coups in Africa but hopes it does not become a trend.  He made the comment on Sunday after a closed session with the President of the Economic Community of West…

President William Ruto announced on Saturday during his keynote address at the Three Basins Climate Change Conference in Brazzaville, Congo, that starting in 2024, visa requirements will be waived for African nationals…

After suffering a stroke in October 2018, Ali Bongo Ondimba saw power definitively slip from his grasp over the next four years. As his family and clan were torn…

Niger’s military regime has announced the successful prevention of an escape plot by former President Mohamed Bazoum to neighbouring Nigeria. Bazoum was overthrown in a coup in July, and the interim authorities revealed…

Liberian president and candidate of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) George Weah is set to go into a run-off with his rival and former…

South Africa will briefly surpass Nigeria as Africa’s largest economy in 2024 according to reports from the IMF in its World Economic Outlook. The IMF’s World Economic Outlook anticipates South Africa’s gross domestic…

South Africa has decided to grant Ghanaian passport holders 90-day visa exemption starting from November 1, effectively allowing them free entry to the country. This decision, announced by the South African High…

The wife of Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest since the coup in the Central African country in late August, has been jailed. Francois Zimeray, her lawyer, disclosed this on Thursday.…

Niger’s post-coup military rulers have demanded in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday that the United Nations coordinator in the West African country leave Niger within 72 hours. The foreign ministry said in the statement…

The African Union (AU) has said that the denial of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, particularly that of an independent and sovereign state, is the main cause of the permanent Israeli-Palestinian conflict.…

Gabon’s coup leader General Brice Oligui Nguema on Saturday appointed members of a new national assembly and senate for a transitional period ahead of promised elections on an unknown date. Military and police chiefs…

South Africa has reported an alarming rise in ATM robbery via explosive attacks, according to a report published online on Monday. The annual crime statistics report for 2022, released by the South African Banking…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Monday his candidacy for a third term in office, ahead of the December elections he is widely expected to win. “As I have responded to the people’s call before, I heed…

DR Congo’s Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize, announced a presidential bid Monday ahead of elections in the central African nation planned for December. Speaking to a packed…

Lawyers for Niger’s ousted president say they are filing a legal case in the West African country against those behind the coup that deposed the democratically elected leader. The lawyers for Mohamed Bazoum, who was…

President Nana Akufo-Addo is completing his constitutionally allowed two terms, but tempers are high. Tension is brewing ahead…

Elections in Burkina Faso are not a “priority” compared to “security”, the country’s military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said on state TV, almost a year after coming to power in a coup. Traore, who had…

The wife of Gabon’s ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with “money laundering” and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup toppled her husband. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba…

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, said Africans no longer trust democracy because it has caused serious crisis in recent years. He noted that the current spate where civil governments are being overthrown across…

Burkina Faso’s richest man Mahamadou Bonkoungou is said to be engaged in a heated dispute with junta leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore. Reports by Cameroon…

On Thursday, South Africa’s RCL Foods (RCLJ.J) said its poultry unit culled 410,000 chickens due to the country’s worst avian flu outbreak, heightening fears of chicken meat and egg shortages. The bird flu outbreak,…

The junta in Burkina Faso, which toppled a military regime to gain power, has announced that there was a coup attempt. In a statement, the junta said an attempt by…

France’s ambassador to Niger landed in Paris on Wednesday after leaving Niamey following weeks of tensions between Paris and the post-coup regime in the West African country, the foreign ministry told AFP. The return of…

The military junta of Burkina Faso has reportedly suspended the French monthly magazine Jeune Afrique for allegedly publishing “untruthful” articles about tension and unrest inside the country’s armed forces Jeune…