Tags GENERAL Egyptian court upholds leading activist’s jail sentence Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld a five-year jail sentence against prominent opposition activist Alaa Abdel Fattah on Wednesday, judicial sources
Tags GENERAL Fired Zimbabwe’s VP is safe, traveling to South Africa: ally Zimbabwe’s former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is safe and will travel to South Africa “very soon”, the head of the
Tags GENERAL Cars bearing old South Sudan plates in Kenya to be impounded Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has warned in a memo dated November 7 that it will impound cars
Tags GENERAL Ancient gym dating back 2,300 years discovered in Egypt Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities says archaeologists have discovered the first-ever ancient gymnasium that dates back about 2,300 years, from the
Tags GENERAL Six Tanzanian schoolchildren killed in explosion At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in
Tags GENERAL More than 70,000 displaced by renewed violence in DR Congo: UN report The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNHCR) reported Tuesday that a recent mission in Tanganyika in the
Tags GENERAL AMISON begins troops pull out from Somalia amid rising Al-Shabaab attacks The African Union envoy to Somalia has announced that the UN mission in Somalia, AMISOM, has began its much awaited
Tags NEWS Liberia’s president says ‘our democracy is under assault’ Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Tuesday said democracy in the West African country was being threatened. Her remarks come
Tags GENERAL DR Congo opposition rejects new timetable for polls to replace Kabila Democratic Republic of Congo’s main opposition parties have rejected a new date for elections announced at the weekend to replace