Politics

Sudan’s foreign ministry has summoned Ethiopian ambassador Yibeltal Aemeru after he accused Khartoum of violating diplomatic norms, the official Sudanese news agency (Suna) reported. According to the news agency, the ambassador told local media that “Ethiopian forces had shot down a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied claims that the southern African country is “a xenophobic nation”. His remarks follows comments made by a provincial health minister to a Zimbabwean patient undergoing treatment, which were viewed as blaming foreign nationals for the country’s ailing healthcare system. “You are killing my …

A former Ukrainian MP was found dead at his home on Sunday August 28, following a gunshot wound, according to the first results of a Russian commission of inquiry. Alexei Kovalev, a former member of the party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, had joined the Russian military-civilian administration in Kherson. …

A discussion on the issue of visas for Russians will take place on Tuesday August 30 in Prague, as some EU countries have been calling for an end to visas for Russian nationals for several weeks, while other countries fear the consequences of these penalties. The European Union and the …

The UN announced the suspension of its efforts to provide humanitarian aid to the beleaguered Tigray region of northern Ethiopia as fresh fighting erupted last week. Fighting between federal troops and rebel groups continues in Ethiopia despite international calls for a truce. The renewed violence – currently concentrated in neighbouring …

Cameroonian customs authorities announced the seizure of 9000 tramadol tablets last weekend in the South West region of the country. Thanks to concerted actions with law enforcement agencies in the seaside town of Buea, in the southwest region, the smugglers, who specialize in the marketing of counterfeit drugs and especially …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed nine people to form an anti-corruption advisory council to help in the fight against corruption. The National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council’s task is to prevent a recurrence of state capture in South Africa. The team will help with the effective implementation of the anti-corruption strategy …

More than 700 Burkina Faso imams come together to condemn religious and ethnic intolerance in the country following a series of violent social media posts inciting “ethnic” Burkinabè to attack members of the Fulani community . At a meeting of clerics in the capital, Ouagadougou, the head of the Federation …

Rwanda is about to enter the closed stable of African natural gas producing countries as authorities announced the country’s plan to produce gas from Lake Kivu from the beginning of 2024. Rwanda has just launched the construction of a methane gas extraction and compression plant for transformation into natural gas …

Angolan Electoral Commission has declared President João Lourenço and his Marxist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA party) the winners of last week’s national elections. The election commission gave MPLA a 51.17% majority after all votes were counted while its longtime opponent, the National Union for the Total …