Category: Rest of Africa

The New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said Saudi border guards had fired "like rain" on Ethiopians trying to reach Saudi Arabia from Yemen.

SADC said the elections did not meet principles and guidelines governing the conduct of democratic elections,

Amhara region is the second most populous region in Ethiopia. Its northern neighbour is the Tigray region, which was the epicentre less than a year ago of the most destructive civil war in the history of modern Ethiopia. Combined with a political climate that is dominated by ethnic...

And according to the authorities, the feared Al Shabaab terror group that had operated in the area since 2017 but has no relations to the Somali militants by the same name, have had some of their feathers clipped.

The rallying call from leaders, both in the bloc and those affiliated, is that the global economy and justice system will not favour a disunited group of countries that bear the largest size of the population on earth.

The Algerian Foreign Ministry's Secretary General Lounes Magramane will be visiting Niger on Thursday, the ministry said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The arrests followed the extension of voting to a second day in some wards after Wednesday’s chaotic presidential, parliamentary and local government elections.

Some of the footage filmed before dawn and posted on the army's Facebook page showed Burhan speaking to soldiers, with the caption indicating that he was at the Wadi Seidna air base north of Khartoum.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has deported at least six foreign researchers back to South Africa and the United Kingdom in the past week after accusing them of trying to interfere with the running of the polls.

But what else matters in these polls?