Politics

Eight officers of Burkina Faso’s army have been arrested for plotting a coup, the country’s authorities have announced on Tuesday. The justice ministry on Tuesday said an investigation on the matter had begun. Colonel Mohamed Emmanuel Zoungrana, a well-known former army commander who has reportedly been critical of the government, …

The United Nations said on Monday it was starting consultations with Sudanese political parties in a bid to save the country’s transition to democracy after a military coup. U.N. special representative Volker Perthes said officials were contacting parties to look for a way forward, and the army had raised no …

The Ugandan Director of Public Prosecutions has withdrawn a case against opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine accused of giving false details about his age while registering for a diploma at Makerere University. Lawyer Male Mabirizi last year filed a case against Kyagulanyi who graduated from the …

US President Joe Biden in phone conversation with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed concern over deaths of civilians in this country in the Horn of Africa. This follows reports that more than 50 displaced people were killed in an air strike in north-west Tigray on Friday. A White House …

The Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked the country’s security minister Owen Ncube, the president’s office said on Monday. Mr Mnangagwa’s office said in a statement that the minister had been removed “with immediate effect for conduct inappropriate for a minister of government”. Mr Ncube was placed under US sanctions …

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said two other people have been killed by police as they were demonstrating against the military rule in the Capital, Khartoum. One was hit on the head by a tear gas cannister and died from a brain haemorrhage, while another died after being struck …

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States( ECOWAS) have reimposed severe sanctions against the Malian interim government after the military leaders had announced a long delay to the elections originally planned for February. After a meeting on Sunday in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the ECOWAS leaders have decided …

The United Nations said on Thursday an air strike hit a refugee camp in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, killing three Eritrean refugees, including two children. The strike on Wednesday hit Mai Aini refugee camp near the southern Tigrayan town of Mai Tsebri, the United Nations said. “Three Eritrean refugees, two …

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield will replace Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Feltman, a veteran U.S. diplomat, assumed the post in April and quickly found himself in the middle of two …

China on Thursday said it would appoint a special envoy to the turbulent Horn of Africa and wanted to shift focus on the continent to trade over infrastructure. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the comments in Kenya, which has been active in diplomatic efforts to halt war in Ethiopia since …