Opposition leader in I.Coast named election candidate
Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Ivory Coast's main opposition party nominated former minister and businessman Tidjane Thiam as its candidate on Thursday, ahead of an October...
Tanzania opposition party calls for court demos as police issue ban
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania – Tanzania’s main opposition party on Thursday called on its supporters to demonstrate at a courthouse where its leader is set to appear...
57 killed in Sudan’s Darfur as trapped civilians fear bloodbath
Port Sudan, Sudan - Clashes between Sudanese paramilitaries and the regular army have killed at least 57 civilians in the besieged Darfur city of El-Fasher,...
S. Africa’s land reform rises from ‘the ashes of dispossession’
Hectares upon hectares of luxuriant orchards cover the land from which Bernard Shabangu's ancestors were once brutally evicted by South Africa's apartheid government.
Thousands of...
Nigeria declares emergency in oil-rich Rivers State
Lagos, Nigeria - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich Rivers State following prolonged infighting that crippled...
