Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon sign cross-border security agreement
Malabo and Yaoundé, whose relations were strained this year with Equatorial Guinea’s launch of the construction of a wall on its border with Cameroon, signed […]
Month: July 2020
South Africa: Andrew Mlangeni, the last survivor of the Rivonia trial, died at the age of 95
South Africa has just lost another great figure in the struggle against apartheid. Andrew Mlangeni passed away last night. He had just celebrated his 95th […]
Kenya: The chairman of the Senate committee on Covid-19 has resigned for violating curfew
Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was arrested in a bar at one o’clock in the morning on Friday evening, 17 July. A blatant violation of the […]
Central African Republic: the opposition denounces fraud attempts in voter registration
The opposition KNK party, in a communiqué, accuses President Touadéra’s party, the MCU, of preparing “an electoral hold up”. And claims to reserve the right […]
Togo initiates a rapprochement with Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has been on the continent since Monday for a visit to Niger, Equatorial Guinea and Togo, where the Turkish diplomat […]
Sudan: Omar al-Bashir’s trial postponed to 11 August
The trial of former President Omar al-Bashir opened on Tuesday 21 July in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. He is being prosecuted for seizing power in […]
Thirteen Russian and Ukrainian sailors were taken hostage in Gulf of Guinea
Pirates had never attacked so far out at sea. Thirteen Russian and Ukrainian sailors were taken hostage 350 kilometers off the coast of Benin last […]
Covid-19: Fifteen African countries threatened by a food crisis, FAO and WFP warned
According to a joint analysis by the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 15 “at-risk” African countries are threatened by […]
Attorney General Dismisses Amnesty Report as Fundamentally Flawed
The Federal Attorney General dismissed the Amnesty International report issued in May 2020 under the title “Beyond Law Enforcement: Human Rights Violations by Ethiopian Security […]
Thousands protest in DRC over electoral commission appointee
About thousand people demonstrated in Kinshasa on Sunday 19 June, at the call of the Lay Coordinating Committee (CLC). This organization, affiliated to the Catholic […]