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Kenya Defence Forces in Mandera.

As Federal Government of Somalia pursues fugitive minister, a Governor in Kenya is on...

5 years ago
NAIROBI MARCH 13, 2020 — “When the safety and security of our population is threatened by foreign forces regardless of how they came into Mandera County, our position is...
Mozambique's commandos

US Military Presence In Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Making SADC Volatile

4 years ago
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) might have been defeated, but its ideas and followers did not disappear. It has since reappeared in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado...
An armed soldier

Military Takeovers A Reminder Of Africa’s Ailing Ballot Democracies

3 years ago
On February 12, most of Ghana woke up to the news that one Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a figurehead of one of the West African country’s most significant protest movements, had...
IGAD delegation in Mogadishu, Somalia as they began the fact-finding mission

Somalia Threatens To Leave Regional Bloc As Row With Kenya Escalates

4 years ago
On November 29 last year, the Federal government of Somalia broke its diplomatic ties with Kenya, after accusing Nairobi of meddling with its internal and political affairs. This was...
Sudan Security Agreement in Juba

Sudanese Parties Signed Agreement in Juba

5 years ago
Juba, August 17 — The Sudanese government together with Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North/Revolutionary Front signed the security arrangements protocol at the Pyramids Hotel in the capital of South Sudan—Juba. The...
Market in Kubwa, Abuja during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Nigeria Sees Rising Coronavirus Cases But Fears Of Underreporting Linger

5 years ago
Abuja, June 10 — The Nigerian government in late May adopted an unusual protocol for sending treated Coronavirus patients home. Instead of two consecutive negative tests recommended by the...
President John Magufuli death

Tanzania President John Magufuli Has Died

4 years ago
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Tanzania’s President Dr. John Pombe Magufuli has died at the age of 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced. In a televised speech on...
Military factor.

Zimbabwe Government Pounded by Fresh Divisions

5 years ago
MARANDA, May 19 — 46-year old Livious Nhundugwa of Maranda township in Zimbabwe’s Mwenezi district and his one-time friend, 43-year old Taguta Chikondo, are now sworn enemies despite the...
Voting in Ghana

Ghanaians In The Diaspora Are Tired Of Being Disenfranchised During Elections

5 years ago
Most Ghanaians in the diaspora are again set to miss out on the right to choose their representatives in the Legislature as well as the man who governs the...
African leaders pose for a photo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation

2 years ago
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the...
Heads of State for Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré (left) and Colonel Assimi Goïta of Mali (right).

Africa’s Coup Governments: When Elections Become An Exhausted Idea Confirming Democratic Fatigue

1 year ago
The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been systematic; citizens protest against the...
CRM political campaign rally.

Cameroon’s main opposition leader reports assassination attempt

5 years ago
The main opposition leader in Cameroon, Prof. Maurice Kamto, has said an assassination attempt was made at his life in the afternoon of 13 March 2020 in the city...
A police officer in camouflage detains a male protester wearing a red beret as a cameraman records the event during a youth-led demonstration against a proposed finance bill.

The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity

8 months ago
Across the African continent, an unprecedented wave of youth-led uprisings is shaking the pillars of political regimes that have held power for decades. In Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Burkina Faso,...
MDC trio

Zimbabwe’s Abducted Opposition Activists Denied Bail

5 years ago
Harare, June 15 — Zimbabwe’s youngest parliamentarian, 27-year old Joana Mamombe along with her other female opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance activists, Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri were...

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A police officer in camouflage detains a male protester wearing a red beret as a cameraman records the event during a youth-led demonstration against a proposed finance bill.

The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity

8 months ago
Across the African continent, an unprecedented wave of youth-led uprisings is shaking the pillars of political regimes that have held power for decades. In...
Heads of State for Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré (left) and Colonel Assimi Goïta of Mali (right).

Africa’s Coup Governments: When Elections Become An Exhausted Idea Confirming Democratic Fatigue

1 year ago
The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been...
The Labour Party logo and Peter Obi

Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria

1 year ago
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All...
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Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations

2 years ago
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in...
Picture of journalists and victims of forced evictions in Mosafejo-Oworonshoki

How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...

2 years ago
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women,...
African leaders pose for a photo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation

2 years ago
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special...
Protestors at a mine at the settlement of Uis in Namibia's Erongo region

Namibia Lithium Battle

2 years ago
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and...
Operation Dudula supporters marched in the Johannesburg Central Business District.

Operation Dudula

2 years ago
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
Lunch hour in Windhoek's Central Business District (CBD) with residents walking through Post Street Mall, Windhoek's main business center..

The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor

2 years ago
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) celebrate 10 years at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg.

Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime

2 years ago
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia and President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development.

Organization Of African First Ladies For Development

2 years ago
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in...
Dumisani Baleni EFF South Africa Communications officer for Gauteng Province, South Africa.

EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools

2 years ago
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of...
African leaders discussed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) at the 36th African Union (AU) Summit held on 18th February 2023 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement

2 years ago
To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU,...
Photo Of newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, and immediate past President, Muhammad Buhari.

Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity

2 years ago
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
Zimbabwe’s President posing for a photo with his guests.

IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...

2 years ago
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...