Especially since the advent of colonialism, tensions between Muslims and Christians in Africa have been one of the more prominent issues of the region. We can see this demonstrated in the Central African Republic’s civil war, in Nigeria, in Mali, in Sudan, and most recently in Burkina Faso.. This unresolved tension will continue to grow in the future, as religion… Read more »
The 2019 South African elections were destined to be particularly interesting. They followed the resignation of the African National Congress’s President Zuma, and his replacement with Incumbent President Ramaphosa. The ANC has been the overwhelmingly dominant party in South Africa since the end of Apartheid, but corruption scandals on the highest levels are bound to hit any party hard. The… Read more »
Tears flowed freely in a high courtroom in Kenya on Friday after a case seeking to overturn a law criminalising same-sex relationships was dismissed. Presiding judge Roselyne Aburili said, “The petitions had no merit.” She said that decriminalizing same-sex relations contradicts constitutional values and the customs of Kenyan people. Kenya has continued to hold on to a colonial-era law that… Read more »
Former South African president Jacob Zuma will hear in three months’ time whether corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges against him might be dropped. Pietermaritzburg High Court judges have reserved judgment on his application for a permanent stay of prosecution. No date was announced. Zuma was president from 2009 until 2018, when his ruling African National Congress party forced him… Read more »
South African lawmakers on Wednesday re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the nation’s president, two weeks after the ruling ANC party returned to power in legislative elections. Ramaphosa was “duly elected president of the Republic of South Africa,” chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng told parliament after Ramaphosa was the only name nominated by lawmakers in Cape Town. MPs from the African National Congress,… Read more »
More than 26 people were killed on Tuesday and many were wounded when an armed group attacked two villages in northwestern Central African Republic, the UN’s peacekeeping mission said. The massacre took place in the villages of Koundjili and Djoumjoum, Mankeur Ndiaye, head of MINUSCA, said in a tweet on Wednesday. Ndiaye said MINUSCA “utterly condemns” the killing, and vowed:… Read more »
Four people were killed and a statue of the Virgin Mary was destroyed in an attack on parishioners during a religious procession in Burkina Faso, church officials told CNN on Wednesday. Unidentified armed men, who on Monday stopped a group of worshipers during a Catholic parade in the remote village of Zimtenga, in the Kongoussi area of the country’s northwest,… Read more »
Germany is set to return a 15th Century artifact it took from Namibia known as the Stone Cross. Minister of State for Media and Culture Monica Gruetters on Friday said the gesture showed that Germany was committed to accounting for its colonial past. “A clear signal that we are committed to reappraising the colonial past,” Gruetters said at a press… Read more »
Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)Zimbabwe made $2.7 million from the sale of more than 90 elephants to China and Dubai, according to a spokesman for the country’s wildlife agency. Money from the sales will be used to support conservation efforts, said Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo. Farawo said the agency was having difficulty controlling the population in its… Read more »
Kampala (CNN) Eight bodies have been recovered and many passengers are missing after a boat carrying members of a local soccer club capsized on Lake Albert in Uganda, authorities said Monday.Fishermen and a marine unit have rescued more than 30 people from the scene of Sunday’s accident, said Ugandan police spokesman Fred Enanga. Players and fans were traveling to a… Read more »