Africa

Italy’s foreign ministry says Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the east of the country. An Italian military policeman also died in the incident near the town of Kanyamahoro. Officials at the Virunga …

Fathi Bashagha, the interior minister of Libya’s unity government, survived an assassination attempt Sunday on a highway near the capital Tripoli, said an official from his inner circle. According to officials, his convoy was fired on from an armored car while he was on the highway. His police escort then …

Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President expressed his condolences to the families of the seven soldiers who died in a plane crash near a runway in Abuja the capital. The chief of the Air staff has ordered an immediate investigation. According to the Nigerian Air Forces, the families of all the …

A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon. Reports say Seif Bamporiki was killed while delivering furniture to a client on Sunday afternoon in Cape Town. It is not clear whether …

They were in total seven soldiers to lose their lives in a plane crash short of a runway in Abuja, the capital Sunday morning. The army spokesman in a Tweet said that the Nigerian Air Force reported that crash is due to engine failure. The plane was on the way …

A Chadian court has sentenced an activist to three years in jail for writing that the country’s president was seriously ill and being treated in France. The head of the Chadian Organisation of Human Rights Baradine Berdei Targuio was arrested in January 2020 after publishing the Facebook post about President …

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the brutal murder of a pregnant woman whose death galvanised protests in South Africa and prompted a speech by the president. The body of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab wounds. …

They are twenty seven members of the South Sudan’s president staff to contract the coronavirus, according to a presidential aide. Those affected are mainly junior staff and members of the presidential security team. But according to the statement of Ateny Wek Ateny, the spokesman of the government, the President has …

Anthony Kerali, Associate Professor in Makerere University was yesterday afternoon found dead in bed at his house in Kampala’s upscale Kololo neighbourhood. The death was confirmed by Vice Chancellor Professor Barnabas Nawangwe who payed him a last tribute: “We shall remember him as a dedicated and diligent servant of the …

UN human rights experts say staggering levels of violence continue in South Sudan. In their latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, the experts say the last few months have seen an intensification of violence, with hundreds of civilians killed or displaced. South Sudan has a government of national …