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Rioters attack ATMs and block roads in frustration at lack of new banknotes days before presidential electionRioters have attacked bank ATMs and blocked roads in three Nigerian cities as anger spilled on the streets over a scarcity of cash, just days b…
Revelation shows dangers posed by bad actors and paid operatives in democratic systems across AfricaRevealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in electionsAn Israeli disinformation specialist hired to run covert dirty tricks campaigns in Af…
Human Rights Watch also demands trial for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of expulsion – and continuing ill treatment – of ChagossiansThe UK should pay full and unconditional reparations to generations affected by its forcible displacement of Chagos Islands…
Ghana’s finance ministry has announced that the country’s domestic debt exchange programme has been successfully closed as foreign lenders discuss forming an official creditor committee, which would be a first step for the country to start debt relief…
The verdict, the first of its kind in almost a decade, has shocked many who fear country is sliding back into state extremismThree Sudanese men have been sentenced to hand amputation for stealing, the first time in almost a decade that such a punishmen…
The trial of hundreds of alleged rebels accused of assassinating former Chadian president Idriss Déby Itno has got underway in a special court located at a prison outside the capital, N’Djaména. It is the latest mass trial instigated by the transition…
Tunisian police on Monday detained two prominent critics of President Kais Saied and the head of a radio station that has broadcast criticism of the president, part of a wave of arrests targeting politicians and other critics of the government.
Ken Opalo: Three Billion Africans How demographics will shape African states’ economic and political futures I: A historically empty continentFor much of history the continent of Africa has been largely underpopulated. For example, it wasn’t…
Parents of Kiernan Forbes pay tribute to ‘beloved son’ who was killed alongside another man while walking to carOne of South Africa’s top rap artists, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the eastern city of Durban, his family said….
More than 1,200 people have died in the deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi’s history and several other African nations have reported outbreaks, the World Health Organization said on Thursday calling for strong interventions.