Prominent Ethiopian human rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi has been elected as the first woman to head the country’s federal supreme court. Her name was put forward by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and MPs unanimously approved the appointment. It’s the latest in a series of appointments in Ethiopia that has seen […]
A Tanzanian governor has announced the creation of a surveillance squad dedicated to hunting down gay people. Paul Makonda, governor of the economic capital Dar es Salaam, told reporters round-ups would begin next week. The team will scrutinise social media in order to track down and arrest people in same […]
South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa has charged the country’s diplomats to lead the push for attracting investment into the economy, adding that government is doing all it can to make their efforts to convince investors easier. Ramaphosa, who was addressing a Heads of Mission Conference in Pretoria on Tuesday, urged […]
Former Sudanese president Abdulrahman Siwar al-Dahab has died in Saudi Arabia, Sudan’s state news agency (SUNA) reports. The 83-year-old former leader of Sudan died in a military hospital in Riyadh, the agency said on Thursday, without providing further details. Described by his contemporaries as a deeply religious man who was […]
Five journalists at a newspaper in the Democratic Republic of Congo were “abducted” after publishing articles about alleged misappropriation of rations for police cadets, according to their managing editor. The detentions on Friday followed a series of prosecutions of journalists in the country, just two months before elections to replace […]
The Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, Pedro Luis Despaigne Gonzalez has called on the African Union (AU) to support the island’s push for the United States of America (USA) to lift its 56-year-old economic and commercial sanctions. Heads of State and Governments of the AU will, on 31 October 2018, vote […]
Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has shot dead five people, including a British-Somali citizen, for spying for the UK, US and Somali governments. The 32 year-old British-Somali man admitted to feeding the UK’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6, information about people in Britain who had been providing support to […]
On Tuesday 25 September 2018, on the sides of the United Nations General Assembly meetings, Melinda Gates handed over the co-chairmanship of an all women led philanthropy group, Maverick Collective, to South African businesswoman and philanthropist, Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe at a special gathering in New York City (NYC). “It makes […]
Corrupt Sierra Leonean officials have been selling fraudulent service and diplomatic passports for thousands of dollars to individuals hoping to use them to enter the United States, the country’s anti-corruption commissioner told Reuters. Africa has a thriving black market for illegal passports, prompting the United States, Britain and others to […]
