Opposition leader barred from running calls for ‘credible’ Côte d’Ivoire vote
Tidjane Thiam, who has been outside the country for nearly two months, was struck off the electoral list by an Abidjan court last month.
16 May, 2025
Second Zambian opposition lawmaker jailed for hate speech
Maureen Mabonga has been sentenced to eight months in prison for ‘seditious practices’ that included inciting ‘national uprising’ on ethnic grounds.
16 May, 2025
Nigerian Biafra separatist charged in Finland with inciting terrorism
The charges against Simon Ekpa were related to hiss efforts to establish Nigeria’s Biafra region as an independent state, Finland’s National Prosecution Authority said.
16 May, 2025
Musk’s Grok bot posts on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa were ‘unauthorized’
Grok kept posting publicly about “white genocide” in response to users of Musk’s social media platform X who asked it a variety of questions, most having nothing to do with South Africa.
16 May, 2025
Guinea military government retakes 51 mines after revoking licences
Changing national currencies should not be controversial
Chad’s former Prime Minister Masra ‘abducted’
Gabon’s ousted President Bongo flies to Angola with family
Turkish foreign minister, US, Russian, Ukrainian delegations to meet in Istanbul on May 16
16 May, 2025
Ugandan parliament approves proposed $20 billion budget
Government said it will prioritise agro-industrialisation, tourism and mineral sectors.
16 May, 2025
Nigerian court jails four Chinese for illegal mining
The court in the city of Jos has also ordered the deportation of the Chinese nationals and be banned from entering the country in the future.
16 May, 2025
Nigeria’s Trans Niger oil pipeline bursts, spills crude: rights group
Nigeria’s Trans Niger Pipeline, a major oil artery, has burst and spilled oil into B-Dere community in southern Nigeria’s Rivers State, an environmental rights group has said.
16 May, 2025
Sudan hospital drone attack kills scores of people
A drone attack on a hospital in Sudan’s city of El-Obeid has resulted in several deaths and injuries, according to eyewitnesses.
15 May, 2025
Seventy South African white rhinos to be relocated to Rwanda
Rwanda’s biggest national park has announced it will receive 70 white rhinos from South Africa later in May.
15 May, 2025
Fighting in southwest Chad kills at least 35 people
A “violent clash” in southwest Chad has killed at least 35 people, the government said on Thursday.
15 May, 2025
UN chief urges dialogue after Libya capital truce
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed a truce in Libya after violence erupted between armed groups in areas of Tripoli.
15 May, 2025
Ethiopia’s TPLF party says ban ‘serious threat’ to peace process
Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has called a directive by the Election Commission banning it from any political activity a “serious threat” to the peace process.
15 May, 2025
S. Sudan medical system ‘collapsing’: Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that attacks on medical facilities are rising in South Sudan.
15 May, 2025
Suspected insurgents raid eastern Burkina Faso city, free prisoners
Scores of suspected insurgents raided a city in eastern Burkina Faso earlier this week, freeing prisoners, driving residents to cower indoors and causing major damage.
