Kampala, Uganda (CNN)A plane carrying 139 people skidded off the runway when it landed Thursday at an international airport in Uganda, the airline and airport officials said.The Ethiopian Airlines flight was landing at Entebbe airport at 12:41 a.m. Thursday (4:41 p.m. ET Wednesday) when it “overshot the runway,” according to airport authorities.All passengers and crew on the Boeing 737-800 plane… Read more »
Security forces took up positions outside the offices of the DRC’s election commission and elsewhere in the capital Kinshasa, amid fears that violence would mar the first electoral transfer of power in 59 years of independence. Riot police have been deployed to protect election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as it braced for the announcement of the… Read more »
More than one in 10 people travelling through the region are taken, as smugglers boost dwindling returns by preying on people for ransom, survey finds More than 15% of refugees travelling north through the Horn of Africa were kidnapped during their journey last year, according to what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive surveys of migration journeys. Researchers from… Read more »
Last year Ifeanyi Ugokwe was arrested and locked up for weeks. His crime: he tried to take his own life. After weeks of being hungry and jobless, the 25-year old says he reached breaking point after a security guard pushed him to the ground while he was searching for work at a building site. “I was tired of walking around… Read more »
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)At least three people were stabbed Tuesday after violence flared at a campaign rally in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, police said.Lagos state Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode addressed thousands of supporters at the event, organized by Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress party.Violence broke out after members of a transport union stormed the campaign venue, said Lagos police spokesman Chike Oti. Bring Back our… Read more »
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian soldiers raided the offices of a local newspaper and took away journalists who wrote an article that “divulged classified information” and put its troops’ lives at risk, the army said Monday.The Daily Trust said security agents “invaded” the newspaper’s bureau in the country’s troubled northeastern region and took away two journalists who worked on a story about… Read more »
Two months after he went missing from the Dadaab refugee complex, Abdullahi Mohamed called his mother, Ubah, from a detention centre in Libya where he was being been held by armed gangs. The men asked his mother to pay a ransom of up to $10,000 (£7,850) for the 19-year-old. Relieved but distraught, Ubah started fundraising for his release, talking to… Read more »
Album of apartheid-era songs sung by ex-president labelled a waste of taxpayers’ money Agence France-Presse Thu 3 Jan 2019 06.35 ESTLast modified on Thu 3 Jan 2019 12.00 EST The former South African president Jacob Zuma’s plan to record an album of apartheid-era struggle songs has provoked a political row as opposition politicians labelled the project a taxpayer-funded waste of money. Zuma, ousted last… Read more »
Group of soldiers had called on people to ‘rise up’ while ailing president is out of countryR Mon 7 Jan 2019 09.18 ESTFirst published on Mon 7 Jan 2019 02.04 EST The Gabonese government has put down a coup attempt after a group of soldiers briefly took over state radio and broadcast a statement calling on people to “rise up” while the president, Ali… Read more »
On January 6, the results for the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were supposed to be announced. However, on January 6 only 53% of the votes had been counted. This election has been very controversial because the future president can affect the future of the DRC. There have only been four presidents since the Republic of Congo… Read more »