Senegal: Deadly protests result in over 10 deaths after sentencing of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko
Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison but has not yet been arrested. Sonko has maintained his innocence and ...
Tag: Africa
Kenya: Authorities slammed by rights groups for 12 deaths during protests, calls for investigation
By Abia Noumbissi Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International have urged Kenyan authorities to investigate accusations of police brutality ...
Somalia: Giant steps towards inclusive democracy as leaders agree to begin universal suffrage by 2024
Somali government officials have agreed to end the country's indirect voting system and replace it with a “one-person, one-vote system” ...
US Sanctions Head of Wagner Group in Mali, two others, for human rights violations and supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine
By Abia Noumbissi The United States treasury placed sanctions on Ivan Maslov, unit chief of Wagner, a Russian private military ...
Nigeria: Owner of Hilton Hotel Sentenced to death by hanging for murder of a student
Raman Adedoyin, the proprietor of the Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, has been sentenced to death by hanging. According to local ...
Samuel Eto’o granted audience by Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso
Samuel Eto'o, president of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT), was received earlier yesterday by the President of the Transitional government ...
Nigeria: Tinubu inauguration amid serious challenges, Biya represented by PM
The Abuja swearing-in ceremony of Nigeria's President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will take place today 29 May 2023. The event will ...
Ghanaian Influencer, Hajia 4Reall, extradited to US, charged with romance scam, Imposed $500.000 bond & electronic ankle tracker.
Mona Faiz Montrage, a Ghanaian musician and influencer who was extradited to the US from the UK for an alleged ...
Pope Francis dismisses Rwandan priest Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, for role in 1994 genocide and for bearing a child
Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a 64-year-old Rwandan has been relieved of his priestly duties by Pope Francis the Sovereign Pontiff of the ...
Thomas Sankara reburied this week, eight years after exhumation
Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, was reburied this week. Eight years ago, his body was dug up ...