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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…

Teachers at state schools in Zimbabwe can’t afford to return to work, three days before classes are set to resume. The Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association declared “a state of incapacitation” for its 43 000 members, citing…

Thousands of Malians took to the streets of Bamako on Friday, protesting against France, while they waved Russian flags, a week after the French ambassador was expelled. The protesters burned cardboard cut-outs of French…

A political novice, Tunisia’s president stunned opponents and admirers alike by seizing near total state power in a move that thrust his country’s young democracy into turmoil. Kais Saied, a former law professor with an…

South Africa’s tax authority has uncovered a 1.8-billion-dollar gold scam, in which coins and jewellery were illegally smelted into gold bars for sale overseas, a watchdog said Thursday. Between 2012 and 2020, the scammers…

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup on Tuesday and suggested that the plotters may have been linked to drug trafficking. Earlier, heavy gunfire rang out near a government compound where…

Guinea Bissau’s president Umaro Sissoco Embalo said Tuesday that people had been seriously injured or had died in a failed coup in the perennially unstable West African nation. “The attackers could have spoken to me before…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has rejected the timeline for election by the Malian Military Authorities, vowing to keep sanctions on the West African nation.…

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Sunday accused Russian private military company Wagner of plundering Mali’s resources. Tensions have increased between Paris and the country’s military junta in recent weeks,…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Burkina Faso in the aftermath of a military coup, making it the third member nation to be punished for a military…

Burkina Faso’s coup leaders have yet to say if they will install a civilian or military leader after deposing President Roch Kaboré, who has since resigned formally. In an interview with VOA, U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso…