Election officials in Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday released an official list of candidates for December’s presidential election, formally excluding two heavyweight opposition figures. “Now we have finished with the candidacy stage, we are in the home stretch for the December 23 elections,” said electoral commission chief Corneille Nangaa as he unveiled the list.
Ugandan security forces on Thursday whisked Bobi Wine away from the airport, where his supporters were not allowed to greet the ragga star-cum-opposition lawmaker, after his arrival from the US where he underwent medical treatment. The singer, who has emerged as a popular voice against Uganda’s longtime President Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, was “unlawfully detained by military officers”,… Read more »
At least 136 bodies were retrieved Friday, a day after a ferry capsized near Lake Victoria’s Tanzanian shore, according to local officials. The MV Nyerere ferry sank with an unknown number of passengers aboard on Thursday afternoon near Ukara, the lake’s biggest island, which is part of Tanzania.
A gang of pirates took hostage 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo ship they attacked in Nigerian waters, the vessel’s operator has said. Massoel Shipping said its bulk carrier MV Glarus, with 19 crew, came under attack early Saturday morning as it transported bulk wheat from Nigeria‘s commercial capital Lagos to the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt.
Nigeria Declares National Disaster After Severe Floods Kill 100 Ben Keane Over the last month, the people of Nigeria have seen mass flooding that has killed upward of 100 people and displaced thousands. While Nigeria sees flooding due to torrential rains yearly, this year it has been worsened because of climate change and poor town planning. The Niger River and… Read more »
Nigeria has recently taken over the the sole lead for the most people living in extreme poverty in the whole world. Most Americans will never have to experience what it’s like to live in extreme poverty. Poverty itself is a harsh way to live however, extreme poverty is even worse. It is defined as not having access to day… Read more »
While reading through many of the articles in Africa I never realized how much more developed it is then I imagined. Africa has political turmoil just like it does here in the U.S. this political turmoil is even stronger and more severe than here which is something I never realized. Most of these people fighting for political spots truly believe… Read more »
ANALYSISBy Ray Morphy Not many Nigerians were surprised when the country was adjudged the poverty capital of the world, recently.
Cape Town — American forces in Africa will soon escalate their war against militants in the Sahel by using armed drones to attack them, reports an American news website on global affairs.
By Moki Edwin Kindzeka Buea — Thousands of parents are withdrawing their children from schools in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon after armed men attacked and wounded dozens of people in their institutions.