Politics

Zimbabwean education ministry said it has suspended staff who did not turn up for the start of the school term on Monday. A large number of government-employed teachers are on strike over poor wages. The absent teachers were suspended without pay with immediate effect for three months while investigations into …

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoko Embaló says the masterminds of last week’s coup attempt served time in US jails for drug trafficking. The president said a former navy admiral and two of his aides were involved in a well-funded plot to assassinate him, his prime minister and other senior officials. He …

Tanzania has lifted a ban on four newspapers suspended when the late President John Magufuli was in power, the BBC reports. The four – Mwanahalisi, Mawio, Mseto and Tanzania Daima – had their licences suspended for various reasons, including publishing false stories. They were regarded as being critical of Mr …

The government in Zimbabwe has warned that six cyclones may hit the country during the current rainy season. July Moyo, the local government minister, said measures had been put in place to warn and protect lives and property. “Lessons had been learnt from previous cyclones that had affected the southern …

A former civil administration minister in Sudan and another senior official were arrested in the latest crackdown on critics of the military government, local media reported. Khalid Omer Yousif and Wagdi Salih, another top official in the former administration, were arrested on Wednesday, according to their Forces of Freedom and …

The East African Community (EAC) has welcomed the lifting of financial sanctions imposed by the European Union on Burundi since the era of the late Pierre Nkurunziza. The regional bloc’s Secretary General, Peter Mathuki, said sanctions lifting would spur development in Burundi and rejuvenate the integration process within the region. …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Major General Abel Kandiho, blacklisted by the United States for alleged human rights abuses, as police chief. The former head of intelligence, has been accused of abuses including electrocution and sexual assault. The US said he was sometimes personally involved in interrogations of detained …

A Ghanaian journalist and host of Power FM Radio has been sentenced to 14 days in prison for contempt of court, reports the BBC. The journalist Oheneba Boamah Bennie, reportedly issued a series of threats to President Nana Akufo-Addo in a live video on his Facebook page. The journalist alleged …

Malian security forces supported by the European force Takuba managed to eliminate at least thirty jihadists, the French staff announced on Tuesday, in the midst of diplomatic tension between Bamako and Paris. Details provided by the General Staff in a press release indicate that a unit of Task Force Takuba …

The European Union (EU) announced it had lifted economic sanctions against Burundi, but said the country had a lot to do “in the areas of human rights, good governance, reconciliation and the rule of law”. Citing a peaceful political environment and progress by the Burundian government in several areas, including …