Eighteen-year-olds will have to perform a mandatory national service if the Conservative Party is voted back to power in the United Kingdom’s July 4 election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced. The UK has “generations of young people who have not had the opportunities they deserve”, and this measure would help unite society in an […]
For years, the African National Congress rose above politics in South Africa. It was a movement dedicated to freeing Black people from the oppression of white minority rule and to the lofty principle of democracy, equality and a better life for all South Africans. It was widely revered as a force for good under Nelson […]
Burkina Faso’s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman said. “The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024,” Colonel Moussa Diallo, chairman of the organizing committee of the national […]
Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera. In southern and East Africa, more than 6,000 people have died and nearly 350,000 […]
A Member of the Togolese Parliament, Mrs Maimunatu Ibrahima, has been sworn in as the first female speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) says the speaker was sworn in at the second extra-ordinary session of the Parliament on Thursday in Kano, Nigeria. In accordance […]
A former United States Deputy Chief of Mission to Ghana, Sue Katherine Brown, has passed on. She passed away peacefully at her home in Arlington, Virginia, on May 14 following an illness. The former Deputy Chief of Mission, who served in Ghana from 2006 to 2009 did her service with distinction and often as charge […]
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that he will fight for his rights, after the country’s top court ruled that he was not eligible to run for parliament in next week’s election. The constitutional court ruled on Monday that Zuma’s 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court in 2021 disqualified him from standing in […]
The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study published Friday. The findings come from World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists that analyzes whether and […]
Chad’s president-elect, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, was sworn in on Thursday at a ceremony in the capital, N’Djamena, attended by several leaders from the region. Deby’s inauguration came a week after the constitutional council confirmed he had won the disputed 6 May election outright, with 61 per cent of the vote. He seized power three […]
In a virtual address to the Global Security Forum in Qatar, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame on Wednesday defended his country’s track record in assisting refugees. Human rights activists and others have criticised a new British law that will see Kigali paid for receiving illegal asylum seekers deported from the United Kingdom. Kagame said the issue […]
