Category: Rest of Africa

The Wednesday night disaster, thought to be linked to illegal mining activities, occurred at the Angelo informal settlement east of Johannesburg.

The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) bloc of nations will have its summit in Johannesburg in a little over a month.

"There will be no elections in this country, or there will be indescribable chaos if President Macky Sall uses judicial tricks to prevent my candidacy," Ousmane Sonko said in a virtual interview with the French outlet France 24.

Hundreds of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have been left stranded in dire conditions in the south of Tunisia since being driven out of the port city of Sfax in the past week.

Mr Sall made the announcement in a scheduled televised address to the nation on Monday, potentially upending the trajectory of opposition protests that have punctuated the country in the last three weeks.

The war between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has wreaked havoc on Darfur, where experts fear a widening ethnic divide could spell more violence.

The southern African country’s presidential election was shaping into a traditional two horse race that has typified contests for the presidency for the past three decades until former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere announced his candidature in June.

Bio, 59, who ran on the ticket of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), was re-elected with 56.17 percent of the total votes cast, narrowly beating his closest challenger Dr Samura Kamara of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) and avoiding a run-off.

The visit comes after US defence officials last year expressed concern over Chinese plans for a military base on West Africa’s Atlantic coast.

Saviour Kasukuwere, a former Zanu PF high-ranking official and loyalist of the late Robert Mugabe, successfully registered to run for president on Wednesday alongside President Mnangagwa and the country’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.