International Criminal Court drops charges against Simone Gbagbo
The International Criminal Court has dropped its arrest warrant for Cote d’Ivoire’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo over post-election violence that killed thousands in 2010-2011,...
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Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu gets COVID jab, kicks off vaccination drive
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan Wednesday received her COVID-19 vaccine in public, kicking off a nationwide inoculation campaign in one of the world’s last countries...
Malawi legislators visit Kenya to benchmark
Malawi’s National Speaker, Catherine Gitano Hara and a team of six Members of Parliament who double up as commissioners of the Parliamentary Service Commission in...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari arrives London for Education Summit, holds talks with Boris
President Muhammadu Buhari is now in London, the United Kingdom (UK), where he will participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for...
Benin Court declines extradition of Sunday Igboho to Nigeria, orders him to remain in cell
The Court D’Appal of Cotonou has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho should be kept in prison custody pending...
Man accused of trying to assassinate Mali president ‘dies in custody’
A man accused of trying to stab Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita last week has died in custody, the government said on Sunday. “During the...
Somalia postpones long-delayed election
Somalia has delayed elections that were due to start on Sunday after months of political crisis in the deeply unstable Horn of Africa country, officials...
Tunisia PM sacked after violent Covid protests
Tunisia’s president has suspended parliament and dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi in a move condemned as an attack on democracy by his opponents but which...
Zimbabweans deported by Britain arrive at Harare airport
Zimbabwe has received the first batch of dozens of its citizens being deported from Britain, some after staying in that country for decades and forced...
Tanzania bans unnecessary gatherings due to COVID-19
Tanzania’s health minister Dr. Dorothy Gwajima has announced a ban on all unnecessary gatherings due to COVID-19. In a statement, the health minister explained that...