Johannesburg – Five police officers and one off-duty soldier were killed when a group of men attacked the Ngcobo police station between Mthatha and Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. According to the police, the unknown suspects entered the police station in the early hours of Wednesday morning and without warning, randomly opened fire on the members on duty. “Three members… Read more »
Ethiopia, an opaque authoritarian country where protesters, bloggers and journalists often are jailed, faces uncertainty after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. Desalegn’s announcement Thursday came after several years of growing instability and protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions of the country, and what critics call a heavy-handed response from security forces. Some 800 protesters were killed in… Read more »
More than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls are missing after an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, Nigerian police say. Militants raided their school on Monday evening, but many of the students and staff had fled before they arrived. It was initially thought that the girls had escaped, but two days later, their whereabouts are still not known. The… Read more »
www.nytimes.com But they had a falling out over the direction of newly independent Kenya — especially over land and power — and became bitter adversaries. Now their sons are fighting a modern adaptation of the same battle as they vie to lead the country, pushing one of Africa’s youngest and most vibrant democracies to the brink of a constitutional crisis…. Read more »
www.africanews.com A Nigerian bishop whom Pope Francis had fiercely defended has resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with rebel priests and faithful who rejected him as an ethnic outsider, the Vatican said on Monday. The case of the Vatican versus the people of the diocese of Ahiara in southwestern Nigeria had become a rare battle of wills that tested… Read more »
www.independent.co.uk Wildlife conservation groups have criticised plans by Tanzanian authorities to auction 3.5 tonnes of hippo teeth next week. They said the move could increase poaching. Licensed dealers will be able to bid for 12,500 pieces of hippo teeth at the tourism and natural resources ministry in the city of Dar es Salaam, wildlife authorities in the east African nation said. Conservationists said the sale could encourage… Read more »
www.bbc.com The burial was marred by divisions in the party he formed and led, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Crowds booed two leaders challenging the appointment of Nelson Chamisa as the party’s acting president. Mr Tsvangirai, a fierce opponent of Zanu-PF’s 37-year rule, died of colon cancer on 14 February aged 65. Kenya’s main opposition leader Raila Odinga attended… Read more »
Durban, South Africa – Mthokozisi Mthembu cuts a lonely figure sitting on a park bench outside the Workshop in the Durban city centre. He hunches over his resume, studying details and occasionally looking up, his eyes adjusting to the glare of untypical overcast conditions above. Originally from Hammarsdale, some 50km out of the city, the 38-year-old has travelled to Durban, as he has… Read more »
Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as the new president of South Africa by ruling party politicians after the resignation of Jacob Zuma. The country’s 400-member parliament, dominated by the ruling African National Congress Party (ANC), elected Ramaphosa on Thursday to finish his predecessor’s term, which ends with elections in 2019.The ANC has finished first in every national vote since the end of white-minority rule… Read more »
Recently, the ex-president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, was thrown out of office. Mugabe was a pseudo-president that resembled a dictator rather than a democratic leader. Along with this, he was accused by other countries and IGOs such as the EU to have violated basic human rights and oppressing his people. Thus these countries, members of the EU as well as… Read more »