Category: Rest of Africa

A report published this week by UN Development Programme (UNDP) indicates that coups of the past may be feeding putsches ofsw today as military chiefs retain enormous influence to undermine democracy.

Both Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the leader of the Sudanese junta, and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, his erstwhile deputy and now enemy, appear to be softening their stands, going by their public statements. But they continue to fight.

South African Ambassador for Asia Anil Sooklal and officials from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation were addressing journalists in the main commercial city of Johannesburg, a day after South Africa confirmed Russia's Vladimir Putin would not attend the Brics summit due to take place...

A judge in the nation's capital of Lilongwe handed Lu Ke, 27, a 12-month sentence after the man was found guilty of procuring children to take part in entertainment and racially exploiting them.

Putin's potential visit has been a thorny diplomatic issue for Pretoria.

Emergency services initially blamed underground gas pipes, but the Egoli Gas company said it was "unlikely" the explosion -- which cracked tarmac and overturned vehicles including minibus taxis -- "was caused by a gas pipeline or leak".

A service run by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (Ooni), an association that tracks online censorship, showed that access to social networks in Africa's second-most populous country was freely available after being shut down in early February.

The Kremlin's move comes alongside the Wagner Group's ongoing mercenary operations in several African states, mainly in the form of propping up governments against internal armed opposition in return for access to and exploitation of precious and rare metals and minerals, as well as gemstone...

Karim Khan made the announcement in a report to the UN Security Council, after three months of war between feuding generals have plunged the country back into chaos.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party and human rights groups are calling Mnangagwa to repeal the bill he signed into law last Friday.