Africa

A magistrate in Zimbabwe has said that the body of former President Robert Mugabe can be exhumed after a traditional leader said that his burial had violated cultural practices, BBC News reports. Robert Mugabe who died in 2019, was buried in a courtyard of his family homestead. But after a …

The African Union’s Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security announced on Twitter that it is suspending Guinea’s membership after the coup that overthrew President Alpha Condé. #AUPSC:Council,in accordance w/ z relevant #AU instruments,decides to suspend the Republic of #Guinea from all AU activities/decisionmaking bodies;Calls on #UNSC to endorse z …

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked the country’s foreign affairs minister Beatrice Khamisa Wani Noah. Her dismissal was announced in a presidential decree read on the national broadcaster SSBC on Thursday night. No reasons were given for her removal from office. She has been replaced with Mayiik Ayii Deng, …

A video that appears to show US soldiers driving among crowds of people in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has been fueling speculation that America had some involvement in this week’s coup. In the video, people are shouting “freedom, freedom, freedom” and greeting the soldiers who are smiling back. Meanwhile in …

In an interview granted to the British Broadcasting Channel (BBC), the former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared that she condemned the coup in Guinea. The former Head of State said she had great confidence in the West African economical and political bloc to find out a solution to the …

Lawyers of the Tunisian MP and critic of the president, Yassine Ayari have announced that their client is due to begin a hunger strike to protest against his detention. Yassine Ayari who suffers from ulcers according to his lawyers, started this hunger strike in order to protest against “a civilian …

Guinea’s coup leaders have ordered banks to freeze all government-related accounts in order to “secure state assets”. According to the putschists, the order affects institutional and individual accounts of the outgoing government. Senior officials of the ousted President Alpha Condé’s government will not be able to access their accounts. The …

Rwandan opposition figure Christopher Kayumba is in the hands of the police. The university lecturer is detained over rape allegations. Mr Kayumba who had honoured summons from the investigating bureau on Thursday has been handed over for prosecution after the bureau said it had closed investigations. Christopher Kayumba was accused …

Three people working on a farm owned by Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo in south-western Ogun state have been kidnapped by gunmen. Ogun police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the abductions. The gunmen opened fire on a vehicle transporting the three, before abducting them and running into a forest, BBC News …

Kenyan police say they are holding two people posing as doctors who allegedly gave fake Johnson & Johnson vaccines to many unsuspected Kenyans. The Criminal Investigations Directorate said the two men charged many unsuspecting Kenyans $ 30 per injection, despite all Covid-19 vaccines offered in Kenya being free. “We have …