Category: Rest of Africa

Tinubu, the ruling party candidate, was declared president-elect of Nigeria on Wednesday, having won 37 percent of the vote. He said the election was credible and the reported problems had no impact on the overall outcome.

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the era of French interference in Africa was "well over" as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties.

Colonel Major Ismael Wague, one of the junta's strongmen, recently wrote in strong terms to Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, whose country is leading international mediation efforts to uphold the Algiers Agreement signed in 2015.

“They cheated,” the 38-year-old painter, seated at a kiosk in Onitsha, in Southeast Nigeria; a stronghold of opposition candidate Peter Obi. 

Today, a hundred years after its birth, South Africa’s Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom) has experienced a spectacular fall from grace.  

The troops also recovered heavy ammunition including AK-47 rifles and Nato Dane guns, attack trucks, motorcycles, desert camouflage and medical supplies from enclaves of the terrorists who have been troubling the northern Nigeria region since 2009. 

Tinubu, candidate of Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), won 8.8 million votes against 6.9 million for opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar and 6.1 million for the Labour Party's Peter Obi in Saturday's election, according to final results released by the Independent...

He landed in Gabon's capital Libreville on Wednesday and will later head to Angola, Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The 70-year-old has now fulfilled his "lifelong" goal by winning the 2023 Nigeria’s presidential election, according to the final results released by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria.

Although the opposition parties were reported to be waxing stronger and clinching many states which have been the strongholds of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) including Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, they were irked by the fact that APC was still leading in the polls.