Politics

Ugandan authorities have arrested Kenya’s former Assistant Minister for Internal Security Stephen Tarus on allegations of smuggling gold into the country using forged documents. Mr Tarus was arrested last week and arraigned before a Ugandan anti-corruption court on Wednesday for falsification of export documents, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) said. …

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced 15 people to prison after finding them guilty of financing terrorism through illegal gold trade. The tribunal on Thursday jailed 10 suspects for terms ranging between five and eight years and handed five others 10-year terms. The court also …

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi will travel to Africa and visit Egypt, Tunisia, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire from Jan. 13-18, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The visit will mark the 34th consecutive year in which the foreign minister has gone to Africa for their first overseas trip of the …

The Somali government said it was working to rescue passengers from a UN helicopter captured by Al Shabaab militants, local media reported. The U.N.-contracted helicopter was conducting an air medical evacuation when a technical problem forced it to make an emergency landing near Hindhere village in central Somalia, an area …

Zambia expects to receive one million cholera vaccine doses from the World Health Organisation amid an outbreak that has killed 249 people since last October. Roma Chilengi, the health adviser to President Hakainde Hichilema, said the doses will be deployed to the most at risk regions and are due to …

Around eight people who were travelling in a UN helicopter have been taken by the al-Shabab armed Islamist group in Somalia after their aircraft landed, reportedly by mistake, in an area controlled by the group. The security minister for Somalia’s Galmudug region, Mohamed Abdi Aadan, confirmed the incident. He said …

The Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday confirmed the final results of last month’s elections, which declared President Félix Tshisekedi the winner. The verdict paves the way for Tshisekedi to serve another five years as head of Africa’s second-largest country and the world’s top producer of …

More than 5.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines bought on loan by the Ugandan government have expired, an audit report has said. The vaccines are valued at 28.1bn Ugandan shillings ($7.3m; £5.8m) and were purchased using a World Bank loan. Authorities say the expired vaccines will be withdrawn from health …

President Emmanuel Macron has announced Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister following the resignation of Elisabeth Borne on January 8, 2024 in France. Gabriel Attal, former Minister of National Education, has been entrusted with the onerous task of breathing new life into Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. President Macron expressed his …

Liberia’s former Chief Justice Gloria Musu Scott and three of her family members have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. The four were arrested and indicted in June last year in connection with the death of Charlotte Musu, who was reportedly Ms Scott’s niece, the BBC reported. In February …