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Ivory Coast's former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon says he would seek the nomination of the opposition PDCI party for the country's 2025 presidential election, challenging party leader and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam.…

South Africa's former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said. Mboweni was an anti-apartheid activist as a student who later became…

Ali Bongo Ondimba who was deposed in a coup in August last year has addressed Gabonese. In an open letter, the former president announced his decision to definitely quit politics and called for the liberation of his wife, and his son…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has expressed its deep gratitude to the Sierra Leonean government for allowing former President Ernest Bai Koroma to travel abroad for medical reasons. In a statement, ECOWAS praised…

Ugandan authorities have currently detained Stephen Tarus, Kenya's former Assistant Minister for Internal Security, on charges of smuggling gold into the country using counterfeit documents. Arrested last week, Mr Tarus was brought…

Former U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will join a South African delegation for this week's hearings at the International Court of Justice, where the country accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the war in…

A Haitian judge has issued arrest warrants for more than 30 senior officials accused of government corruption, including many former presidents and prime ministers. The warrants, issued on Friday and leaked on social media over the…

Chadian politician Succès Masra was named the first Prime minister under the nation's newly adopted 5th Republic Constitution. The announcement was read on national television on 1st January by minister Mahamat Ahmad Alhabo. "Through…

The family of a South African held hostage in Libya and then Mali for more than six years thanked the Algerian authorities for their role in his release in mid-December. Gerco Van Deventer, 48, was freed on 17th December on the border…

Ethiopian police have announced the arrest of a former minister accused of "collaborating" with Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebels. Taye Dendea, former Minister Delegate for Peace, had posted on his Facebook account on Monday a letter…