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ZIMBABWE: Mugabe bans successor, Mnangagwa, from burial

By PUNCH, Published August 10, 2019 Former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe has told his family members that he doesn’t want his successor, Emmanuel Mnangagwa at his burial. According to iHarare, Mugabe Read More

Burkina Faso convicts two generals over deadly 2015 coup

General Gilbert Diendere was convicted on charges of murder and harming state security [File: Joe Penney/Reuters] General Gilbert Diendere sentenced to 20 years in prison while General Bassole handed 10-year Read More

Sudanese face daunting challenges on path to democracy (PHOTOS)

FILE – In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 file photo, Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks duringa press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. For the first Read More

Sudan’s ex-president al-Bashir ‘received $90m from Saudi Arabia’

Sudan’s deposed ruler Omar al-Bashir sits in a defendant’s cage during the opening of his corruption trial in Khartoum [Ebrahim Hamid/AFP] At the start of al-Bashir’s corruption trial, investigator tells Read More

Sudan’s ex-president al-Bashir ‘received $90m from Saudi Arabia’

Sudan’s deposed ruler Omar al-Bashir sits in a defendant’s cage during the opening of his corruption trial in Khartoum [Ebrahim Hamid/AFP] At the start of al-Bashir’s corruption trial, investigator tells Read More

17 Chinese, Ukrainian Seamen Kidnapped off Cameroon Coast

Buea and Yaounde, Cameroon YAOUNDE (Agence France-Presse) – Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters in the Gulf of Read More

ZIMBABWE: Pensions disappear

A customer strolls past fruit and vegetable shelves while shopping in a groceries store in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on July 15, 2019. Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate hit 176 percent in Read More

A cash crunch heaps even more pain on Zimbabweans

Residents of Harare queue outside of a bank, hoping to get their hands on an increasingly scarce supply of Zimdollar notes [File: Chris Muronzi/Al Jazeera] Supplies of Zimdollar notes and Read More

Repercussions Of Suppressing Online Political Dissent In Uganda

By The Organization for World Peace The Repercussions Of Suppressing Online Political Dissent In Uganda Just days ago, the Ugandan government announced that it will now require that influential social media Read More

UGANDA: Museveni blames SLEEP for the country’s poverty

68% of Ugandans are poor because of sleeping – Museveni By URN, THE OBSERVER President Yoweri has lambasted Ugandans for failing to make use of their abundant land and available Read More