France 24) Gambia’s leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string of “unacceptable errors” on the part of electoral authorities, Jammeh said in a speech broadcast… Read more »
(France 24) Two female suicide bombers on Friday killed 45 people and wounded 33 others when they detonated their explosives in a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeast, the emergency service said The army had earlier put the death toll at 30. “From our updated records we have 45 dead and 33 injured in the twin suicide bomb explosions in… Read more »
(Reuters) A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered two Iranian nationals facing charges of filming Israel’s embassy in Nairobi for the purpose of terrorism to be deported back to Iran, a public prosecutor said. Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe were arrested on Nov. 29 while in a car belonging to the Iranian embassy, according to court documents. Iranian foreign… Read more »
(Al Jazeera) Rights commission urges international community to take immediate action in South Sudan to avoid “all-out ethnic war”. South Sudan is “on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war which could destabilise the entire region”, the head of a team of UN human rights investigators told the UN Human Rights Council, describing a shattered country where children as… Read more »
I want to focus on two specific places this week and those two places are Ghana and Gambia. Gambia is having some turmoil over election results and their president is not willing to accept the election results and step down from the presidential podium. While Ghana’s president conceded defeat to Nana Akufo-Addo just days ago and It was a very peaceful… Read more »
(CNN) Ghanaian President John Mahama has conceded defeat to Nana Akufo-Addo in the recently concluded elections, a spokesman for the President-elect told CNN on Friday. Akufo-Addo, of the New Patriotic Party, won 5,716,026 (53.85% of the votes) to 4,713,277 a 44.40% share reported representatives at the EC National Collation Center. Nana Akufo-Addo takes the concession phone call from President Mahama…. Read more »
(UN Health Center) Despite major progress in the fight against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains an acute public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 90 per cent of the world’s malaria cases, according to an annual flagship report by the World Health Organization (WHO). “We are definitely seeing progress,” said Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria… Read more »
(France 24) Gambia’s leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string of “unacceptable errors” on the part of electoral authorities, Jammeh said in a speech broadcast… Read more »
(AfricaNews)Tanzania’s former president Benjamin Mkapa arrived in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura on Wednesday to revive the collapsed Inter-Burundi Dialogue peace talks. Mkapa was appointed to facilitate the talks by the East African Community heads of state in March. Mkapa’s visit comes following an invitation from the Burundian presidency, and is scheduled to meet President Pierre Nkurunziza on Thursday. He will also… Read more »
A rather worrisome trend in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, has seen the country slide nearer and nearer to genocide and a civil war continuing to grow worse, after a peace agreement had deteriorated earlier in the year. The ongoing violence is made worse by the ethnic conflict present in the nation- the 2 dominant ethnic groups, the Nuer… Read more »