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Tunisian President meets new speaker of parliament


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Tunisian President Kais Saied has met with the new speaker of parliament, Ibrahim Bouderbala, following his election during the assembly’s first sitting on Monday. The 71-year-old is the former chief of the Tunisian Bar Association and a…

Tunisian New parliament begins first session


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Tunisian new parliament, elected in December and January in a vote with a turnout of 11%, sat for the first time on Monday in a session closed to all but state media and with the opposition coalition saying it would not recognise its…

Tunisian opposition to hold new protest over arrests


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A Tunisian protest coalition says it would not stop working to unite the opposition against President Kais Saied despite the arrest of its top leaders, and added that it would hold a demonstration on 5th   March. Tunisian police have…

Ethiopia new milestone reaches peace process


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Tigrayan authorities provided images of the Agula camp, located outside of the regional capital Mekelle. There, tanks and heavy weapons were being handed over to the federal forces. This development is a key enactment of the peace…

Gabon appoints new PM ahead of presidential election


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Gabonese Head of State Ali Bongo Ondimba chose one of his loyal followers, Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, as new Prime Minister, replacing Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, appointed Vice-President of the Republic. It is a heavyweight in…

Tanzania appoints new central bank governor


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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed Emmanuel Tutuba, previously a permanent secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Planning, to the position of central bank governor. Tutuba replaces Florens Luoga, who reached the end…

UN Security Council welcomes new members


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Mozambique, Ecuador, Japan, Malta, and Switzerland got a formal welcome into the U.N. Security Council, taking the two-year seats they won unopposed in June. In a tradition that Kazakhstan started in 2018, the five countries' ambassadors…

Ugandan new year stampede Kills 9


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Nine people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda's capital, police said on Sunday. After fireworks outside the Freedom City mall in Kampala, "a stampede ensued, resulting…

Stop funding new gas projects in Africa- Climate activists


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Activists attending the COP27 climate conference in Egypt held a demonstration, calling on countries to stop funding new gas projects in Africa. Faced with an energy crisis because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, western nations have been…

Lesotho new Prime minister takes office


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Diamond tycoon and political maverick Sam Matekane has taken the oath as Lesotho's new prime minister at a packed soccer stadium in the southern African kingdom's capital of Maseru. The 64-year-old political novice, who arrived at his…