Category: Rest of Africa

Mr Juan Manuel Rodriguez Vázquez will be the non-resident Cuban ambassador to Somalia after he presented credentials to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday. 

A coup in October 2021 led by Sudan’s Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had derailed the transition to civilian-led rule that began following the 2019 ouster of long-ruling Islamist general Omar al-Bashir.

A court in northern Nigeria's largest city of Kano has given a man till Friday to kill his cockerel following a neighbour's complaint that the constant crowing deprives him of sleep.

US Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated calls for a "speedy finalisation" of Zambia's debt restructuring on Friday as she visited the country in the last stop of a continental tour.

Two Chinese men will serve six years after a Nigerian court found them guilty of bribery.

According to Sudan’s health ministry report released this week, at least 45 people have died out of at least 2,576 cases recorded since July last year in 12 of the country's 18 states.

Her visit to Ghana, is the first stop on an African tour that will also take her to Tanzania and Zambia.

The police were deployed in numbers around Dakar University to deal with the students who responded to the tear gas by hurling stones but were unable to leave the campus.

The latest evacuees from Libya arrived in the evening of March 29, 2023 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.

<p class="align--justify">The sentence will not prevent him from running in elections next year, an apparent effort by authorities to defuse a stand-off with his supporters, who have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce what they say is a politically motivated campaign.</p>