Gambian President Adama Barrow on Sunday announced a moratorium on the death penalty as the West African country rebuilds its international standing following the removal last year of its longtime authoritarian ruler Yahya Jammeh. Capital punishment is on the decline across ... Read More

The Gambia has re-joined the Commonwealth almost five years after ex-President Yahya Jammeh took the country out of the organisation, which he described as “neo-colonial”. He said he was not happy with the Commonwealth for accusing his government of human rights ... Read More

South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned after intense pressure from his own party. In a televised statement he said he was quitting with immediate effect but said he disagreed with his ANC party’s decision. The ANC had told him to ... Read More

Ethiopian journalist and blogger, Eskinder Nega’s freedom is in doubt after he reportedly refused to sign a ‘false confession form’ in exchange for his prison release. Eskinder, who has been in jail since 2001, convicted of having links with banned groups, ... Read More

The Chinese government says it is ready to support a plan by the African Union (A.U.) to establish a representational office in its capital, Beijing. This is according to a communique issued by the A.U. following a two-day official visit (January ... Read More

Joseph Kabila President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila will not contest in elections when they are next held, the information minister Lambert Mende has told the Voice of America channel. According to him, Kabila intends to ... Read More

Benjamin Netanyahu Israel on Sunday began warning thousands of African migrants that they must leave by the end of March, officials said, under a plan that could see them jailed if they refuse. Immigration authority spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told AFP that ... Read More

Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage Kenya’s two leaders as part of efforts to resolve the unfolding political crises in that ... Read More

Raila Odinga says he wants to create "a proper democracy" in Kenya The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity. According to a special gazette notice issued today under ... Read More

The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of TV channels that defied a ban on live coverage of the the symbolic inauguration of Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. The ... Read More