Category: Rest of Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa was in talks with South Africa's ruling party late Thursday as pressure mounted for him to quit or be forced from office over a cash burglary at his farm that he allegedly covered up.

Rwanda deployed its army and police personnel to Cabo Delgado in July 2021 under a bilateral arrangement at the request of Mozambique, and currently has around 2,500 troops engaged in joint operations with Mozambican forces.

Boomberg reported that people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as they are not authorised to speak to the media said Mr Ramaphosa is in meetings with close allies to take advice on the matter.

The scarcity of petroleum products which hit Nigeria in July has worsened, spreading across the 36 states as Nigerians cling to the hope of the $18 billion Dangote Refinery which is expected to begin production by end of December.

The bridge, which was inaugurated in October last year, was mostly funded with Chinese money. But it was presented at the time as a grant from China to the people of the West African nation.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing renewed pressure after a panel probing a burglary scandal at his farm said Wednesday it found enough evidence to warrant a parliamentary debate on whether he should be impeached.

Eighteen people accused of involvement in one of West Africa's bloodiest attacks by extremists — a machine-gun assault on a beach resort in 2016 that left 19 dead — go on trial in Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday.

The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), which manages Kariba Dam that is shared by Zimbabwe and Zambia, said the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) had exhausted its 2022 water allocation for the Kariba South hydropower station, which generates 70 percent of the country’s electricity supplies.

The good times look so far away. There has been a food crisis since 2016. And to compound its situation, terrorist attacks have multiplied in the centre of the country, in the Mopti region. With the heavy toll of civilian and military victims and damage...

Dos Santos, who stepped down in 2017 after 38 years of iron-fisted rule, appointed family members to key economic jobs during his presidency.