Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of two TikTok stars in Nigeria’s Kano state for defaming the state governor Abdullahi Ganduje. The TikTokers, Mubarak Muhammad alias Unique Pikin and Nazifi Muhammad Bala, had pleaded guilty and asked for leniency. But the judge ordered them to be given 20 lashes each, …
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A Nairobi court ordered the pilots of Kenya Airways to come to work on Wednesday and, for the moment, to cancel their strike. The pilots have been refusing to work in protest over the suspension of contributions to their retirement fund by Kenya Airways management. The judge, Anna Ngubuini Mwaure, …
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Congolese fighter planes have bombed M23 rebel positions in the east of the country, causing people to flee into neighbouring Uganda, local media reported. A rebel spokesman said the jets deliberately targeted civilian settlements around the Sabyinyo volcano. The military denied the accusation. Kinshasa accuses Kigali of supporting the M23 …
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President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi and chairperson of the East African Community (EAC) gathered regional leaders in Egypt on Monday night to discuss the rising insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the BBC reported. Presidents Samia Suluhu of Tanzania, Paul Kagame of Rwanda, William Ruto of Kenya and DR …
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A magistrate’s court in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has ordered two TikTok stars to be whipped and made to sweep the court premises for a month. They were found guilty on Monday of defaming Kano state governor Abdullahi Ganduje in a comedy video they recorded and shared on …
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A Russian businessman close to the Kremlin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, admitted on Monday his country’s “interference” in the American elections. His remarks come on the eve of an important midterm election in the United States where Moscow has for years been accused of interference. “We interfered, we do and we will …
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Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa will on Monday lead mourners in paying their respects at a funeral service for 19 people killed after a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, the BBC reported. The plane crashed on Sunday morning near the shore at the end of the Bukoba …
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Faced with the galloping inflation in Ghana, currently estimated at 37%, hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets of Accra on Saturday 5 November to denounce the deteriorating economic situation, French media RFI reported. “Resign or be impeached! Politicians eat, Ghanaians suffer!” : the slogans chanted by the crowd were …
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Somalia’s religious affairs ministry has banned the use of the name al-Shabab – “the youth” in Arabic – and asked the public to refer to the militant group as “Khawarij”, a derogatory term meaning a deviant sect. In a statement, the ministry also prohibited clerics from dealing with the al-Qaeda-allied …
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Ugandan prison authorities announced the suspension of all visitations in their facilities due to the rising Ebola cases with the latest in Masaka District, Dailymonitor reported. In a press release on November 1, the prisons spokesperson, Mr Frank Baine, issued standard operating procedures aimed at curbing the spread of the …
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