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Pursuant to Article 89(2) of the Constitution of Ghana, the President of the Republic, Nana Akufo-Addo, has released a list of appointees for the Council of State. A statement from the Communications Directorate of…

A Chinese woman, Xiaomei Havard has become the latest member of South Africa’s parliament, replacing Jackson Mthembu who succumbed to the COVID-19…

Kenya’s public debt rose by 1.3 trillion shillings ($11.8 billion) in 2020, as the east African nation stepped up borrowing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented various…

Political and religious forces in Uganda are calling for reconciliation after what some analysts describe as the country’s most violent elections since President Yoweri Museveni took…

South Africa is expected to receive the first batch of 1 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday, produced by the Serum Institute of India, said the country’s…

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) on Wednesday said it will allow controlled use of the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to treat Coronavirus (COVID-19). “We will facilitate a controlled,…

Moderna said on Monday it plans to start clinical trials of an altered booster version of its COVID-19 vaccine aimed at the South African variant after tests showed its authorised vaccine may produce a diminished antibody…

An Ugandan court has ordered security forces to cease surrounding the home of opposition leader, Bobi Wine, who has been under house arrest since the presidential election early January, his lawyer said on Monday. Troops…

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has commenced an investigation on its own senior managers over allegations of graft. The foundation had received an anonymous complaint from staff…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has filed a motion again at the Supreme Court demanding original pink sheets from the Electoral Commission (EC). He is demanding among other things, “Originals of the Constituency…

Uganda on Monday switched on the internet after it had shut it down on Jan. 13, fearing that it would be used to spread messages of hate and violence amid the country’s general elections held on Jan. 14. Ofwono…

Longtime Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni, who on Saturday won a sixth term as president with 60 percent of the vote, is being propped in office with billions of dollar…

Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni has won a 6th term as president, extending his 35 years in office. He won 58.6.% of the vote while his nearest rival Robert…

Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni looked headed for a sixth term as president with election results on Saturday placing him firmly ahead of his main rival, who has cried fraud and whose home has been put under heavy guard.…

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in presidential elections, rejecting as a “complete sham” early results that gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead. Wine told AFP he felt under…

Uganda Presidential Candidate Bobi Wine, with real name Robert Kyagulanyi, claimed there were “widespread fraud and violence” as counting gets underway after polls closed in a hotly contested…

The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (Avatt) – established by African Union (AU) chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa – has secured a provisional 270 million vaccine doses for African countries. At least 50 million Covid-19…

President Yoweri Museveni has warned his opponents against taking to the streets.“If you use violence to protest against an election result, that is treason,” Museveni said in a national address Tuesday. Ugandans began…

The Ugandan authorities have ordered a shut down of social media ahead of the country’s presidential poll. The election is scheduled for January 14, 2021. According to Reuters, the…

The United Kingdom has extended the ban on travellers entering England to 11 African countries in a bid to prevent the spread of a new COVID-19 variant identified in South…

Modibbo Keïta, Former Malian Prime Minister is dead. Keïta, 78, died on Saturday in Morocco where he was receiving medical care from an undisclosed ailment. The incumbent Prime…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced a ban on alcohol sales and said use of face masks would be mandatory in public as his country became the continent’s first to record one million coronavirus…

South Africa’s total COVID-19 cases since the first case in March crossed a million on Sunday, its Health Ministry said. The new grim milestone comes just days after a new faster…

Five countries on Monday announced that they have banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus. Last week, South African…