South Africa political parties cobble together unity government as deadline to elect president looms
South African lawmakers are expected to elect the country’s president on Friday after being sworn in at the first sitting of Parliament that will also reveal the kind of unity government that the ruling...
South Africa again requests emergency measures from world court to restrain Israel’s actions in...
South Africa urged the United Nations’ top court Friday to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.”
Tunisian man dead after self-immolating in protest against police
Tunisia has seen large numbers of people set themselves alight since the death of street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation in late 2010 sparked the Arab Spring and led to...
Rwanda’s leader is concerned over perceived US ambiguity about victims of the 1994 genocide
Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday he was concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis.
Kagame...
Senegal’s youngest president names ‘breakaway’ government
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye looks set to share responsibilities with his appointed prime minister and former mentor Ousmane Sonko
Sonko said the government’s priorities would include employment...
Gay rights activists call for more international pressure on Uganda over anti-gay law
Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the country’s Constitutional Court refused to nullify on Wednesday.
Senegal swears in Africa’s youngest elected leader as president in a dramatic prison-to-palace rise
Senegal inaugurated Africa’s youngest elected leader as president on Tuesday, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison to palace within weeks.
Hours later,...
Congo appoints its first female prime minister as violence surges in the east
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday appointed the country’s first female prime minister, fulfilling a campaign promise and taking an important step toward the formation of a new government after his reelection late last...
Prime Minister Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Visits West Omo Zone of Country
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his delegation visited West Omo zone of South West Ethiopia region today.
Abiy wrote on his X account "I am pleased to be visiting...
Togo’s opposition calls for protests to stop president from signing off on a new...
Activists and opposition leaders in the West African country of Togo called on Wednesday for protests to stop the country’s president from signing off on a new constitution that would scrap future...