JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a team of business and finance experts on Monday to hunt the globe for 100 billion rands ($8 billion) in investment to boost the ailing economy. The team of economic envoys includes two former finance ministers – Trevor Manuel and Pravin Gordhan, who now holds the state firms portfolio – as… Read more »
LUWERO, Uganda (Reuters) – In a small Ugandan town in February, Juma Nsereko took a panicked call from his wife: their five-year-old twin girls were missing and the mother suspected their neighbor, a jobless man, had kidnapped them. After a frantic three-day search the children were recovered unharmed and the neighbor, who had demanded a ransom of 13 million Ugandan… Read more »
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse Shi’ite Muslim protesters marching for their leader’s freedom in the capital on Monday, and organizers said at least one demonstrator was killed and several were wounded by gunfire. Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) leader Ibrahim Zakzaky has been jailed since December 2015, when security forces killed hundreds of… Read more »
With the passing of the Electronic and Postal Communications Act that was written in 2017, the government of Tanzania has essentially been given the power to police anything posted on the internet. The laws included in the act include fining citizens $2,000 for not having a pin on their device as well as exorbitant fees to start a blog. Even… Read more »
The Tanzanian regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2017, which will govern social media and blogging in that country, has been signed into law. According to reports, Tanzania has finally signed into law a controversial and slightly absurd new regulation to govern social media and blogging. The regulation, known as the Electronic and Postal Communications… Read more »
I can only imagine what 118 political parties on a ballot would look like. Furthermore, one spokesperson for Zimbabwe said he hopes that more are coming to sign up. I think one reason for this viewpoint is so the people have plenty of options. While this may provide higher voter turnout on election day, I think it has the potential… Read more »
As in many African countries, Cameroon’s borders do not show the true ethnic borders of the region, thus there is much conflict. In addition to being separated by many tribes who hold more regional power than the actual government, the country is essentially split down the middle between the francophone east and the anglophone west. At the moment, there has… Read more »
All Africa As a campfire burns in a remote village on Cameroon’s northwestern border with Nigeria, seven men and five boys roast cocoa yam for supper. The eldest among them, 45-year-old Bruno Nfor, says the group has spent at least a week in the bush after violence broke out in the town of Tadu. Armed separatists attacked the town, he… Read more »
All Africa French investigating judges are still questioning the monthly payments made by the nuclear energy company, Areva, to President Hage Geingob between 2008 and 2009 “while he was a trade minister”.
All Africa Breast ironing, a traditional practice commonly done in Cameroon, is the use of hard or heated objects like a wooden pestle or scalding grinding stones to stop or slow the development of breasts in young girls, supposedly to “protect them from sexual harassment, rape and early pregnancy”.