Politics

In Guinea, leaders of the coup that overthrew president Alpha Conde have made available to the population a toll-free number to denounce and report any abuses by security forces. The number 100 is available to all telephone operators in Guinea. The junta announced a four-day consultation programme with different groups …

Moroccan King Mohammed VI has appointed Aziz Akhannouch as the country’s new prime minister and asked him to form a government. Aziz Akhannouch is member of the liberal National Rally of Independents (RNI) which emerged as the biggest party in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, crushing the Islamists who had led the …

Hundreds of Angola’s opposition militants were in the streets of the capital, Luanda, to demonstrate against changes of electoral laws. The demonstration was organised by the main opposition Unita party and joined by other groups. According to the new legislation, votes will be tallied centrally instead of being counted in …

The African Union’s Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security announced on Twitter that it is suspending Guinea’s membership after the coup that overthrew President Alpha Condé. #AUPSC:Council,in accordance w/ z relevant #AU instruments,decides to suspend the Republic of #Guinea from all AU activities/decisionmaking bodies;Calls on #UNSC to endorse z …

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked the country’s foreign affairs minister Beatrice Khamisa Wani Noah. Her dismissal was announced in a presidential decree read on the national broadcaster SSBC on Thursday night. No reasons were given for her removal from office. She has been replaced with Mayiik Ayii Deng, …

A video that appears to show US soldiers driving among crowds of people in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has been fueling speculation that America had some involvement in this week’s coup. In the video, people are shouting “freedom, freedom, freedom” and greeting the soldiers who are smiling back. Meanwhile in …

In an interview granted to the British Broadcasting Channel (BBC), the former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared that she condemned the coup in Guinea. The former Head of State said she had great confidence in the West African economical and political bloc to find out a solution to the …

Lawyers of the Tunisian MP and critic of the president, Yassine Ayari have announced that their client is due to begin a hunger strike to protest against his detention. Yassine Ayari who suffers from ulcers according to his lawyers, started this hunger strike in order to protest against “a civilian …

Rwandan opposition figure Christopher Kayumba is in the hands of the police. The university lecturer is detained over rape allegations. Mr Kayumba who had honoured summons from the investigating bureau on Thursday has been handed over for prosecution after the bureau said it had closed investigations. Christopher Kayumba was accused …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to withdraw the country’s troops from the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia. The warning follows a row between the Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and the Prime minister Mohamed Roble over the choice of intelligence chief and the prime minister’s dismissal of the …