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Nigeria, South Africa and other African governments scrambled on Monday to help their citizens escape the Russian invasion in Ukraine after reports of racist and unfair treatment of Africans at border crossings.…

South Africa has now launched its electronic visa (eVisa) service, allowing foreign visitors to apply for a visa…

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has revealed that a train that was carrying some Ghanaian students was attacked by the Russians in Ukraine. Thankfully, Mr Ablakwa said, all the Ghanaian…

THE Council of the Wise (CoW) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has described as an aberration, Mali parliament’s approval of a five-year transitional government. Chairman of the CoW and former…

Uganda plans to impose fines on people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who fail to pay could be sent to prison under an amendment of a public health law currently being reviewed in Parliament.…

South Africa’s health department on Monday said it has changed COVID-19 vaccination rules in order to increase uptake. It added that it was considering the option because inoculations had slowed and the country had ample…

Mali’s military junta on Friday asked France to withdraw its forces “without delay”, questioning Paris’ plans to pull out over several months. A government spokesman announced on public television that the results of…

A South African court has dismissed former President Jacob Zuma’s attempt to remove the prosecutor from his upcoming corruption trial. The dismissal came on Wednesday by Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Piet Koen, on the…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has urged teh European Union to support the African Union in sanctioning coup plotters in African countries. There have been at least six successful coups leading to unconstitutional…

France will conduct closures of its military bases in Mali for an expected period of four to six months, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Paris said that Canada, France, and its allies…

Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a coup to topple elected head of state Roch Marc Christian Kabore. In a…

South Africa’s economic hub Gauteng is promoting COVID-19 vaccinations by offering food vouchers to people in their 50s who have not yet received a jab. “Are you 50+ and yet to…

Ethiopia’s parliament on Tuesday voted for an early end to a six-month state of emergency, effective immediately. The parliament’s vote added to signs that a bloody conflict between the government and rebellious Tigrayan…

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has extolled the virtues of President John Magufuli of Tanzania, who died in office in March 2021. According to a statement issued by AfDB on Saturday,…

At the beginning of the month, it looked like Guinea-Bissau was about to fall victim to what has been called West Africa’s coup epidemic, but some are now doubting the official version of events. Having seen more than a…

Standard Bank Group Limited says five major African economies will face debt risks over the next two years as pandemic-induced stimulus and relief for needy countries draws to an end. The lender named Ghana, Kenya, Angola,…

Judges at the International Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Uganda must pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo’s resource-rich Ituri province. “The…

A Ugandan author who had spent nearly a month in jail after criticising President Yoweri Museveni has fled the country, the lawyer said on Wednesday. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, an internationally acclaimed writer, was released from jail in…

Mali’s government has asked the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to lift sanctions that will have severe consequences for the population, it said on Monday. West Africa’s 15-nation ECOWAS bloc and the UEMOA…

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Sunday dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council, the body that deals with judicial independence. The dissolution raises fears about the independence of the judiciary and is sure to anger Saied’s…

In what may signal that sanctions by ECOWAS are biting, Mali junta has ordered a review of the 2025 date for return to civil rule. Junta leader Assimi Goita asked lawmakers to review the transitional charter adopted after the first of…

Many people are deserting the ranks of the Islamic insurgency in Mozambique as the military presses gains, according to the deputy chief of a multinational African force who admits the conflict remains a “puzzle”. In an…

An Egyptian businessman was charged on Saturday with “human trafficking” and “sexual assault” a month after he was arrested over accusations that he abused seven girls in an orphanage he founded. Media and real estate tycoon…

The army officer who seized power in Burkina Faso at the helm of a military coup last week has promised that he will work with the region’s main political and economic bloc towards a return to constitutional order. A…