A bus plunged off a bridge into a ravine and caught fire on Thursday in South Africa, killing 45 of the 46 people on board, the transport ministry said. An eight-year-old child was the sole survivor and had been taken to hospital with serious injuries. The vehicle had been heading from neighbouring Botswana to […]
Senegal has just elected its youngest president -Bassirou Diomaye Faye who was the opposition leader that led the race in Senegal’s presidential election. Faye will be taking over as the country’s fifth president by the outgoing President Macky Sall, who is stepping down after a second term. Bassirou Diomaye Faye (born 1980) is a […]
The new text will mark Togo’s entry into its fifth republic, with the last major constitutional change dating back to 1992. The president will be chosen “without debate” by lawmakers “for a single six-year term”, and not by the public, according to the new text. Togolese lawmakers adopted a new constitution on Monday, […]
Senegal’s anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye appeared early Monday to be closing in on victory in a presidential poll that follows several years of unrest and a political crisis, while the governing coalition said it was certain of a second-round vote. Whoever comes out on top will be tasked with steering Senegal, viewed […]
Dozens of Rohingya refugees are feared dead or missing after their boat capsized off Indonesia’s westernmost coast this week, the United Nations said Friday, as local rescuers called off the search despite survivor accounts many were swept away. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their lives each year […]
Niger’s government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off “with immediate effect” its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia. […]
Ariel Henry, Haiti’s prime minister, has resigned following weeks of escalating violence in the country. Mohamed Ali, Guyana’s president and the current chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), said Henry tendered his resignation after CARICOM leaders held an emergency summit in Jamaica on the crisis in Haiti. In a video address late Monday, the […]
The junta in Niger Republic is in a serious dilemma even as it has agreed to release the ousted president of the country, Mohamed Bazoum, and his wife, Khadija. Multiple sources in Nigeria and the neighbouring Niger, have confirmed plans by the military government to release the ousted president before or within the few […]
Chad’s junta-appointed prime minister on Sunday said he would contest May 6 presidential elections, eight days after incumbent Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno announced his candidacy. Former opposition leader Succes Masra returned from exile and signed a reconciliation deal with Deby Itno before becoming premier this year. The opposition says his candidacy is a […]
Sweden on Thursday became the 32nd member of NATO with the handover of documents at a ceremony in Washington, a historic move that Secretary of State Antony Blinken said marked a “strategic debacle” by Russia. “Good things come to those who wait,” Blinken said as he accepted the accession documents from Sweden’s prime minister, […]
