Politics

Former Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga held in Bamako’s central detention center for four months, died Monday in a clinic in the capital, Bamako. He had been imprisoned after being charged in particular with “forgery, use of forgery and favoritism” within the framework of an investigation into the purchase …

Mr Nathan Okori, father of Parliament Speaker Jacob Oulanyah whose death was announced on Sunday, said his son did not die of natural causes and that he was “poisoned”, Ugandan DailyMonitor reports. “I know all of you who have come here are mourners. His (Oulanyah’s) death is not easy news …

Everyone in Tunisia will have a chance to express their views on plans for a new political system before a panel gives directions for constitutional reforms, President Kais Saied said on Monday. The Tunisian president has said everyone will have a chance to comment on his proposals for political reform. …

More than 10 members of the security forces died in eastern Burkina Faso after an attack by suspected jihadists, military sources said. It followed Sunday’s attack on a military patrol and security team in Natiaboni, a rural town in the east. The region is among those hit by rising insecurity …

Tributes have poured in for Uganda’s parliament speaker Jacob Oulanyah who died on Sunday while undergoing treatment in the US. President Yoweri Museveni announced the death of Mr. Oulanyah without giving information on the cause of death. Mr Oulanyah, 56, had held the speaker’s position for about 10 months. President …

Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema is boycotting a planned national dialogue because the agenda does not include talks about a new constitution. Freeman Mbowe, Chadema’s chairman, was recently held on terror charges for eights months and announced the boycott on Friday at his first press briefing since his release. The …

French President Emmanuel Macron said he condemned Mali’s leaders’ decision to suspend broadcasts by French state-funded international news outlets RFI and France 24. “I condemn this decision in the strongest terms, which seems to me to be totally at odds with the values ​​defended by the Malian people since their …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa blamed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for the ongoing war in Ukraine and said he would resist calls to condemn Russia. “The war could have been avoided if NATO had heeded the warnings from amongst its own leaders and officials over the years that …

In an interview with the BBC, US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said African states cannot remain neutral on the war in Ukraine. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that in the General Assembly vote two weeks ago to deplore the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 17 African countries abstained and …

Authorities in the Central African Republic have said they will delay the country’s local elections scheduled for September 11, citing a lack of funds, AFP news agency reports. The head of the electoral authority, Mathias Barthelemy Morouba, said the elections will not take place as planned: “We have got behind …