Nigeria: Buhari sacks top officials over missing funds
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday dismissed two top civil servants over graft allegations in Africa’s most populous nation. President Buhari had ordered the sacking […]
Month: October 2017
Uhuru Kenyatta wins Kenyan presidential poll rerun
The Kenyan electoral commission on Monday declared President Uhuru Kenyatta winner of the rerun presidential election by 98.26% of votes. The incumbent president of the […]
The G5-sahel initiative gets $60 million boost from the US
The United States on Monday promised up to $60 million to support the G5-Sahel Joint Force’s counter-terrorism efforts, the State Department said in a statement. […]
Niger reacts officially to Algeria’s massive deportation of sub-Saharans
The Nigerien government last weekend reacted to the massive deportation of its nationals by Algeria, in violation of the agreements between the two countries and […]
ECOWAS member states seek to harmonize national labor policies
Government representatives and social partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), gathered in Guinea’s capital Conakry last week, agreed on the harmonization […]
CEMAC borders finally opened to nationals of the six-State community
The free movement of persons and goods throughout the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) is finally effective. After Cameroon, Chad, Congo, CAR and […]
Crisis-torn Burundi becomes the first country to quits ICC
Burundi has become the first country in history to officially withdraw from the Rome Statute on Friday, a year after the East African nation requested […]
Equatorial Guinea’s VP Obiang gets 3-year prison term for corruption
A French court has found Teodorin Obiang Nguema, the son of Equatorial Guinea President guilty of corruption in a case known as the ‘ill-gotten assets’ […]
US alarmed by recent protest deaths in Ethiopia
The United States on Thursday condemned the latest round of violent clashes in Ethiopia’s Oromo region where about 10 people have been killed whiles 20 […]
Ghana football icon Asamoah Gyan to operate Baby Jet Airlines
Ghana Black Stars’s Captain, Asamoah Gyan has obtained a license to operate an airline called Baby Jet airlines in the country, local media reports. Ghana […]