Africa

William Ruto, Kenya’s president-elect, said he would accept Supreme Court verdict on Monday on petitions challenging his victory, although he asked the country to pray for a smooth transition for President Uhuru Kenyatta . President Kenyatta backed Raila Odinga, leader of the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party, in …

Police in Uganda arrested a woman who was captured in a viral video torturing her two-year-old daughter for refusing to bath, local media reported. The suspect, Dorothy a 22-year-old mother-of-three, was arrested after the viral video sparked global outrage. She was caught on footage beating her daughter repeatedly with a …

Two people died in the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos after a seven storey building under construction collapsed, Reuters reported, citing Lagos State Emergency Management Agency. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday and rescue efforts were underway to find survivors, the agency said. The building was being constructed …

State and private actors in the energy sector from Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry and Senegal met on September 1 in Diamniadio in Senegal to discuss on “the future of natural gas”. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, gas has become a rare commodity and African countries …

A popular Nigerian singer has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and abducting a police officer who had detained him. Ice Prince, whose real name is Henry Zamani, was arrested at 03:00 on Friday for driving without car licence plates, said Lagos Police Command spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin. “He, thereafter, abducted the …

Nearly 682 security incidents were recorded from April 1 to June 2022 in Mali, according to the quarterly note of the United Nations Mission in Mali (Minusma) on human rights violations published on Wednesday. In three months, 317 civilians were killed and 73 others abducted or disappeared. In its report, …

Rwanda and Uganda have officially resumed diplomatic talks, an important step towards reviving relations between the two countries which had been at loggerheads for nearly three years. A delegation of Ugandan officials led by Foreign Minister Odongo Jeje Abubakhar met with their Rwandan counterparts in Kigali. Recently appointed Ugandan High …

Angolan biggest opposition party, Unita, says it has filed a legal challenge against the results of last week’s election that declared the ruling party, winner. The MPLA, the party in power since 1975, won the general elections with 51.17% of the vote, while UNITA obtained 43.95%. A senior Unita official, …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet his US counterpart Joe Biden on September 16 to hold talks on a number of issues including trade and energy, the White House announced. “The leaders, building on their productive call in April and the US-South Africa Strategic Dialogue in August, will discuss …

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced his plan to appoint a former Senegalese minister to lead U.N. efforts to broker peace in Libya, Reuters agency reported on Thursday. The 15-member U.N. Security Council needs to agree by consensus to the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily as the U.N. special envoy for Libya. …