Hauwa Mustapha 1372 posts 0 comments

Street artists in Goma in eastern DRC are using the walls of the city to appeal for peace in a region plagued by violence. According to the Council on Foreign Relations in the US, there are more than one hundred armed groups operating in…

Rwanda plans to amend its constitution to allow for presidential and parliamentary elections to be held at the same time, according to a statement outlining cabinet resolutions. The statement said that the cabinet on Friday approved a…

Nineteen (19) migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a human rights group said on Sunday, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia. In the last four…

The family of a South African held hostage by militants in Mali for over five years launched a fresh appeal for his release. Forty-seven-year-old, Gerco van Deventer, was kidnapped in Libya on 3rd November, 2017. “Van Deventer, an…

US Vice President, Kamala Harris, starts a week-long trip to Africa in what is being seen as the latest attempt at counterbalancing China's influence. Vice President Harris is expected to visit Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia as she focuses…

The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, UNISFA, Internal Organisation for Migration IOM, Food and Agricultural Organisation FAO and Concordis International have brokered a peace agreement between the Ngok Dinkas and Misseriyas…

The party of President Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon for more than 40 years, unsurprisingly won all 70 seats in the indirectly elected Senate on 12th  March, the Constitutional Council announced. The 90-year-old omnipotent head of…

Chad has nationalized all the assets and rights including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorisations that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), the Central African nation's energy and hydrocarbons ministry…

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed the country's former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was detained for over 10 years for war crimes, as the country's defence minister in a sweeping government…

Cheered on by family, driver Fatumata Bah raised her arms in triumph after winning an amateur motor drag race in Dakar that saw four men and four women competing for first place. Pairs of drivers in small Peugeot hatchbacks had raced to…