Africa News Parents and relatives gather for prayers at the Chibok school where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists seven years ago. Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since Chibok, resulting in hundreds of schools being shut in a region where the literacy rate and school enrolment
BBC Former South African president Jacob Zuma has up to Wednesday to suggest the penalty the country’s highest court should impose if he were to be found guilty of contempt. The penalty relates to his ignoring of summons to appear before the commission of inquiry chaired by Justice Ray Zondo to answer corruption allegations –
BBC An international charity says locust swarms, extreme weather and below average rainfall mean millions of people in Somalia will not have enough food. Save the Children says crop and vegetable production is expected to drop by up to 80% this season. Income from livestock sales, a mainstay of the Somali economy, is projected to
Reuters More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said. Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack in the city of Owerri, but a
TIMESLIVE The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold a two-day extraordinary Troika Summit in Maputo from Thursday to Friday to deliberate on measures to address terrorism in the host country Mozambique. According to a notification sent to member states by the bloc’s secretariat, there will be a meeting of defence and security clusters from
BBC Tanzania’s new president has announced that bans slapped on a number of media outlets by her predecessor who died last month are now to be lifted. “I understand that there are media organisations that have been closed – let them open and ensure they follow the law,” President Samia instructed national authorities. She said media rules,
BBC The Tanzanian police have now confirmed that 45 people died in the stampede as mourners gathered to view the body of former President John Magufuli. Thirty-seven other people were injured in the stampede in Dar es Salaam. The police did not give the names of the victims. The police had initially given a death
AllAfrica.com THE French government failed to help stop the 1994 Rwandan genocide and holds responsibility for an inability to see preparations for the killing, according to a report published on Friday by a historical commission set up by President Emmanuel Macron. Paris was not complicit in the killings, according to the commission, led by historian
AllAfrica.com THE longtime president of the Republic of Congo is set for another five-year term after getting over 88% of the vote. The election day was marred by the death of his main opponent, Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas. Despite an ongoing economic crisis in the Republic of Congo, the country’s veteran President Denis Sassou Nguesso
Africa News Mourners line the streets and gather at a church in Dar es Salaam to remember Tanzania’s late president John Magufuli, before he is transported to the Uhuru National Stadium where he will lie in state. Magufuli died at the age of 61 on Wednesday. He will be buried in his ancestral home next
AP News of the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli drew mixed reactions; sorrow from many but bitterness from a critic who said he suffered during the president’s rule which he said shrank the country’s democratic space. Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent COVID-19 skeptics, died of heart failure, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced
BBC Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado. One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her 12-year-old son was killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children. More than 2,500
Reuters ARMED men attempted to kidnap more students in Nigeria’s Kaduna state overnight on Sunday, a state government official said, as 39 others from an earlier attack remain missing. Attacks by armed gangs, usually referred to as bandits, have intensified across northwest Nigeria in recent years. Four school kidnappings since December have provoked nationwide outrage.
BBC AN Islamist insurgency in north-east Mozambique has driven more than half a million people from their homes in the past year. Aid agencies are calling it an urgent and forgotten humanitarian crisis. In a world exclusive, a BBC team reached the besieged town of Palma at the heart of the conflict – the first
AllAfrica.com The leader of an African country who has not appeared in public for nearly two weeks is admitted to Nairobi Hospital for Covid-19 treatment, even as his government remains mum on his whereabouts. The leader, who regularly addresses church congregants and public rallies when inspecting or launching government projects, was last seen in public
AllAfrica Geneva — Rwanda still leads the world with the number of women in a lower chamber of parliament, says the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Sixty-one percent of members of the country’s legislature are women. But while several African counties have in the past been ranked among the top 10 countries for women’s representation, this year
AllAfrica.com THE United States government has called for “independent, credible, impartial and thorough” investigations into alleged irregularities in Uganda’s presidential elections. Washington also wants members of state security services probed for alleged abuses against Opposition candidates and civil society. Mr Ned Price, the US Department of State spokesman, said on Tuesday that Uganda’s January 14
TimesLIVE ONE SA movement leader Mmusi Maimane says the DA opening the door to a coalition with the ANC is “an admission of defeat” and “recognition that they can’t grow”. Maimane lashed out at his former party on Twitter after a Sunday Times report in which leader John Steenhuisen said he has opened the door
AllAfrica.com ARMED bandits have attacked a girls’ secondary school in Zamfara State, kidnapping many female students, the BBC is reporting. The attack reportedly occurred at the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State Friday morning. A teacher in the school confirmed the attack to BBC Hausa with the
AllAfrica.com CASH-STRAPPED Tuskys Supermarkets has Sh41.6 million in its only bank account with funds, as it fights off at least 26 cases filed by creditors seeking billions in dues dating as far back as 2016. But the bank account is frozen, following four separate cases at the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Milimani, Nairobi. Besides, the
