Politics

Kenyan Head of State Uhuru Kenyatta has officially announced that he supports the candidacy of opposition leader Raila Odinga in the next presidential election scheduled for August 9. This news does not surprise Kenyan population. President Kenyatta urged his supporters to back Mr Odinga’s bid saying that he had the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the launch of a military operation against Ukraine which he says aims to “demilitarize and denazify” it. “I made the decision for a special military operation”, he said in a surprise statement on television this Thursday, denouncing once again a “genocide” orchestrated by the …

A London court will on Wednesday begin to hear a lawsuit launched by Nigeria against U.S. bank JP Morgan Chase, claiming more than $1.7 billion for its role in a disputed 2011 oilfield deal, Reuters reports. The civil suit filed in the English courts in 2017 relates to the purchase …

Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, imprisoned and tortured for making unflattering comments about President Yoweri Museveni and his son on Twitter, fled the country a fortnight ago and arrived in Germany, his lawyer has told AFP news agency. “He arrived in Germany this morning,” Eron Kiiza, the lawyer, is quoted as …

Yemeni hackers, the hacking group that took over more than 30 websites in Mozambique on Monday, are now demanding money before unlocking them, hours after the government said it had repelled the attacks. Accusing the government of underestimating the scale of the attack, the hackers have placed a message in …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Somali government against another postponement of the elections, with the risk of stopping all assistance to the country. The financial institution said it could end its support program for Somalia within the next three months if the scheduled elections were to suffer …

Liberian President George Weah has pardoned former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai sentenced to two years in prison for corruption by the Supreme Court. This is rather good news for former minister Brownie Samukai. Although sentenced, he never entered jail and the pardon means that he may be able to take …

Ugandan Prime Minister Nabbanja Robinah was seen in a video where she attended the latest African Union meeting. What sparked reactions on the internet was that she participated in the summit on the side of the road. The picture is going viral. In a viral video, the Prime Minister is …

Uganda plans to impose fines on people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who fail to pay could be sent to prison under a new public health law which lawmakers are scrutinising, parliament said on Tuesday. Only 16 million Ugandans have received their doses out of a …

A federal high court in Nigeria has upheld the police force’s decision to sack an unmarried officer who fell pregnant last year, the BBC reports. Justice Inyang Ekwo said he found no compelling reason “to disrupt the discipline of the force”. “Any person who joins the force must abide by …