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CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s former Constitutional Court president, Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption-related offences in a high-profile case involving the management of public funds allocated to the
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RABAT, Morocco — King Mohammed VI has approved the removal of Madiha Khayr, a minister delegate appointed just two days earlier as part of Morocco’s new government, following a request from Head of Government Fatima
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Cameroonians are still waiting for President Paul Biya to announce a government reshuffle and appoint a vice president, weeks after he returned to the country on August 20 following approximately 10 weeks
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PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — Mauritius has extended overnight curfews as protests over water shortages and the rising cost of living escalate into violent unrest, raising questions about public services, police accountability and the government’s response
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BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives has removed its longtime speaker, Aguila Saleh, ending his 12-year tenure and ushering in a new parliamentary leadership amid shifting power dynamics in the country’s divided east.
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TSHWANE, South Africa — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit to fully implement the country’s 2018 peace agreement as South Sudan prepares for general elections scheduled for December
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CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea has freed opposition politician Aliou Bah after nearly two years in detention, following a presidential pardon that also benefited 216 other prisoners. President Mamadi Doumbouya granted the pardons on October 2
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso has marked four years since Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power, with supporters gathering in Ouagadougou to celebrate the military government’s record while the country continues to face a persistent
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia has escalated its diplomatic confrontation with neighbouring Eritrea, announcing the closure of its embassy in Asmara and ordering Eritrean diplomats to leave the country, while also expelling an Egyptian diplomat
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President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day address presents Nigeria as a country moving from painful reform to prosperity. The evidence from insecurity, poverty, food prices and human development suggests that the harder test is still ahead:
