Politics

Ukraine is willing to resume grain exports to Africa and other parts of the world if Russia ends the naval blockade in the Black Sea, the country’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with Tanzania’s privately owned The Citizen newspaper. According to Minister Dmytro Kuleba, although many African …

A protester was killed during anti-military protests in Khartoum on Wednesday after security forces used excessive force, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said. “A martyr, who was not identified, has died after he was shot in the chest by the forces of darkness”, the doctors committee said in …

Wednesday’s protest against the rising cost of living in Ghana has so far been peaceful, unlike on Tuesday when clashes with police erupted and 29 people were arrested. After a series of meetings with the police, protesters were allowed to use a route that runs in front of the president’s …

The chairperson of the African Union commission has called for “restraint, calm and dialogue” as the border dispute between Ethiopia and Sudan threatens to escalate. In a statement, Moussa Faki Mahamat said “the two brotherly countries” should settle any disagreement peacefully. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission calls for …

Angola’s immediate former president, José Eduardo dos Santos, is in an induced coma in a hospital in Barcelona, a Portuguese news agency is reporting. “José Eduardo dos Santos is hospitalised in a clinic in Barcelona and is in a coma following a [relapse], after recovering from Covid-19,” said Portugal’s state-owned …

Police in Ghana on Tuesday arrested 29 protesters in the capital, Accra, following a violent protest against high prices organized by the group Arise Ghana. The initially peaceful protest degenerated into chaotic scenes after a confrontation between protesters and police along the route of the protest. Information Minister Kojo Oppong …

Ruling party in Ethiopia urged African Union to facilitate peace talks between federal government and rebellious forces from the Tigray region in the north, state media reported. Two weeks ago, PM Abiy Ahmed said the federal government had formed a committee to study how they will negotiate with the Tigrayan …

A man has been arrested in eastern Uganda and held in police custody after slapping an MP at church on Sunday, state-owned New Vision newspaper reports. The 39-year-old struck Transport Minister Musa Ecweru in the middle of his speech to congregants at St Michael Catholic Church in Amuria. “He did …

Vladimir Putin’s Russia bombed a shopping center in kyiv on Sunday as the G7 summit in Germany opened. This increases concerns as the NATO summit approaches. In Germany, G7 leaders unanimously condemned the bombardment of a shopping center in the Ukrainian capital by the Russian army. “The G7 summit must …

The UN and AU called for an investigation into the deaths of 23 people, after hundreds of migrants tried to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco. According to Moroccan authorities, a number of people were crushed to death in a stampede on Friday after a section of border …