The countries of Senegal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are each undergoing a similar issues within their respective political spheres. Each country is approaching a presidential election, the former in December, and the latter in February, and two major candidates have been banned in each of these countries. Jean-Pierre Bemba is the first we’ll be looking into. Bemba… Read more »
Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, was released on bail Monday after two weeks in detention. Kyagulanyi and 33 others, including two fellow serving MPs, are facing treason charges in a case that has triggered an international outcry. They were arrested after stones were thrown at President Yoweri Museveni‘s convoy, breaking a car window, as he visited the… Read more »
A Senegalese court on Thursday upheld a five-year jail term against leading politician Khalifa Sall in a ruling that bars him from running in presidential elections due next February. “The court confirms the judgement against Khalifa Sall,” a judge said. Sall, 62, who is mayor of Dakar, had described the charges against him as politically motivated. He did not attend… Read more »
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former DR Congo warlord-turned-politician who has been banned from running in the country’s upcoming presidential election, on Tuesday told FRANCE 24 that the December vote will be nothing but “a parody”. Bemba was one of six presidential hopefuls who were banned from running in the December 23 election by the country’s election commission. Bemba appealed the ruling, but on Monday, the Constitutional… Read more »
At least 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in the northeast near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday. Scores of jihadists in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in northern Borno state late Thursday and briefly seized it after a fierce battle, they said.