Officials from President Pierre Nkurunziza’s government did not turn up for a final round of talks aimed at ending Burundi’s severe political crisis. The peace talks are going ahead without them. The fifth session of the inter-Burundi dialogue started on Thursday with the aim of laying out a roadmap to free and fair elections in 2020 and putting a halt… Read more »
Part of Theresa May’s wider security pact with African nations is that the UK will establish cyber centers focusing on countering peopdofiles from overseas. The prime minister stated: “Online child exploitation is an abhorrent crime and we are determined to ensure there is no place to hide for predators who use the internet to share images of abuse across borders, too… Read more »
As Nigeria’s army continues its offensive against Boko Haram extremists, our reporters Catherine Norris-Trent and Jonathan Walsh travelled to the northeast of the country, still plagued by violence. For this special 26-minute documentary, they bring us rare eyewitness accounts from victims of the jihadist group, but also those who persecuted them. Security forces and ordinary citizens also speak out about… Read more »
It’s been one year since Anglophone separatists declared an independent republic in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. That led to clashes between the separatists and Cameroonian soldiers. The UN estimates the fighting has caused the displacement of more than 160,000 people inside the country, with an estimated 40,000 who have fled to neighbouring Nigeria. Our correspondents report from Nigeria,… Read more »
The Ghanaian government has dissolved the governing council of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Knust) following violent protests on Monday. A seven-member interim committee has been appointed to manage the affairs of the university and directed to re-open the university within 14 days for academic work to resume. The trouble started at Knust, which is in Ghana’s second… Read more »
The UK government will build a new “cyber centre” to help stop British paedophiles abusing vulnerable children in Kenya. The centre will be the first of its kind in Africa amid a rising number of abuse cases faced by Kenyan authorities. In the past two years two British men have been sentenced to long prison sentences after travelling to the African country to sexually… Read more »
Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, many of the problems and civil strives that nations undergo can in some way be attributed to the arbitrary nation forming that happened as a result of the the Scramble for Africa. Cameroon is an excellent example of this. Having been a German colony, it was divided between the British and the French after the First World… Read more »
The Journal du Caméroun reports, “At least six Cameroonian soldiers were injured on Wednesday in the locality of Oku, Bui division of the North West region during an assault on a camp of suspected separatist fighters.
Al Jazeera reports, “US rapper Kanye West (YE) and his wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, have arrived in Uganda on a private visit, in what is seen as a coup for the country’s tourism promoters.
The Namibian reports, “‘WE must live within our means.’ This was a theme that finance minister Calle Schlettwein expressed early in the mid-year budget review speech that he delivered in the National Assembly yesterday.