Tags GENERAL Niger prepares for tense presidential vote 15 candidates including a prisoner, are running for the presidency in the Niger’s elections slated for this Sunday. President Mahamadou
Tags GENERAL UN Security Council blames warring factions in South Sudan for instability The United Nations is criticizing the leaders of South Sudan’s two warring factions, for not doing more to end the
Tags GENERAL Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni wins fifth term Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni extended his three-decade rule on Saturday, winning a fifth term with 60 percent of the vote
Tags GENERAL President Mugabe warns his party’s members fighting for his succession Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe threatened to discipline ruling party members he accuses of fanning divisions over who will succeed him,
Tags GENERAL Escaped lions back safely in the Nairobi national park Several lions which strayed from the Nairobi national park, on the edge of Kenya’s capital, and wandered into a residential
Tags GENERAL Ghanaian industrialists push for restrictions on Nigerian export products Nigeria’s economic woes may be heightened if the indigenous Ghanaian industrialists succeed in their push for their government to place
Tags GENERAL South Africa confirms first case of Zika Virus South Africa has confirmed its first case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in a Columbian man, health authorities say. The
Tags GENERAL Burundi Peace Mediation: Tanzania Foreign Minister visits Rwanda Tanzania’s Foreign Minister has stepped up the pressure on East African countries to try to find a peaceful solution to
Tags GENERAL Uganda Decides: Police raid Besigye party’s headquarters Friday Police in Uganda have arrested opposition Presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye hours after the country’s polls. Besigye was picked up
Tags GENERAL Somali MPs angry at being subjected to security checks Somali Members of Parliament are up in arms over a presidential directive subjecting the lawmakers to security checks at Mogadishu’s