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Thousands of people turned out Saturday to see Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo announce his bid to return to office even though he is ineligible. Supporters came from all over the country to Agboville, 70…

South Africa has issued new visa regulations for skilled foreign remote workers, Business Live reports. The new remote work visas are applicable to foreigners…

Newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has announced Senegal's plans to conduct an audit of the oil, gas, and mining sectors. The audit is one of the first policy…

Uganda’s Constitutional Court Wednesday rejected a petition seeking to annul the nation’s stringent anti-LGBTQ legislation that led the World Bank to suspend funding. The judgment was delivered at a hearing on Wednesday in…

The newly elected president of Senegal,  Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has appointed popular opposition figure and political ally, Ousmane Sonko, as prime minister barely hours after being sworn in as president.  Sonko, 49,…

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in Tuesday as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison.…

Dozens of worshippers died after a bus headed to an Easter conference apparently “lost control” and “plunged” off a cliff in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Thursday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)…

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, congratulated Mr. Bassirou Faye on his election as the President of the Republic of Senegal. He also congratulated incumbent President, Macky Sall, for overseeing an election widely…

15,000 Ethiopians, mostly youths have returned the money they withdrew from Ethiopia’s largest commercial bank following a system glitch that allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their bank accounts.…

Togolese lawmakers adopted a new constitution on Monday, moving the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system and giving parliament the power to elect the president of the small West African country. The…

Senegal has just elected its youngest president -Bassirou Diomaye Faye who was the opposition leader that led the race in Senegal’s presidential election. Faye will be taking over as the country’s fifth president from…

Senegal’s former Prime Minister Amadou Ba has congratulated rival opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye for winning the presidential election. Results trickling in since polls closed on Sunday evening in the…

The opposition candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, is leading in the early results of Senegal’s presidential election, which has spurred his followers to troop out in celebration on the streets of the capital, Dakar.…

One week after the authorities of Nigeria Customs Service, following the directive of the Presidency, opened the Illela land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic, the government of Niger Republic on Friday opened…

South Africa’s consumer inflation increased for the second time in a row in February, inching closer to the Central Bank’s upper target. Economists in the country stated this could imply longer waits for rate cuts.  …

Egypt will allocate $2.66bn for bread subsidies in its 2024/2025 Budget and $3.13 billion in petroleum products subsidies according to a statement by Mohamed Mait, the country’s Finance minister. According to Reuters,…

Paras Energy and Natural Resources Development Limited, one of the leading power solutions providers in Nigeria recently developed a rooftop based Solar PV Plant at Moundou, Republic of Chad for Solen Renewable…

A senior presidency official in Ghana has said the anti-LGBTQ bill passed by parliament in February will not be transmitted to President Akufo-Addo for assent until…

The largest commercial bank in Ethiopia, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) recently lost millions of dollars when a technical glitch in its system allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their accounts.…

Niger’s government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off “with immediate effect” its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger,…

Ghana High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Rawhide Bawa, has been confirmed dead. He was 65 years old. Politics Nigeria understands that Bawa died in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, on Thursday. His remains have…

The Paris Club of Creditors have reached an agreement with the government of Somalia that will result in the cancellation of up to $2 billion of the country’s debt- approximately 99% of the debt owed by the country to the…

Ghana risks long-term damage to its credibility as a borrower as the progress of restructuring discussions with foreign bondholders shows a government determined to play for…

The junta in Niger Republic is in a serious dilemma even as it has agreed to release the ousted president of the country, Mohamed Bazoum, and his wife, Khadija.  Multiple sources in Nigeria and the neighbouring Niger,…