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One of South Africa’s most senior police officers has survived an attempted assassination in Johannesburg, police say. Deputy crime intelligence boss Maj-Gen Feroz Khan was shot on Sunday evening as he was driving home and has since been…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is the big winner following the country’s general election as his party has retained its overwhelming parliamentary majority, despite the poll being overshadowed by conflict, accusations of repression…
The evolving El Nino phenomenon in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to amplify climate variability on the African continent, the African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) is urging for anticipatory…
The US government says it will stop funding programmes in South Africa intended to tackle the spread of HIV and Aids. More than eight million South Africans are living with HIV – the highest number of any country in the world. The US State…
Key findings. The abduction of journalist Arlindo Chissale is part of a broader pattern of enforced disappearances and political killings in Mozambique, with over 300 dead and 3,000 victims of violence from October 2024 to January 2025;…
Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said the prime minister had…
A former Nigerian oil minister has been cleared of taking bribes from wealthy oil executives in the form of luxury home stays and lavish spending sprees in the UK. Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, was found not guilty after a trial at London’s…
Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said the prime minister had…
Authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are searching for a six-year-old Ebola patient and her mother after armed men stormed the hospital where they were being treated. The child was taken from Wanamahika Hospital, in the city…
At least 49 people have died of thirst in a remote part of the Sahara desert in northern Niger after the truck carrying them broke down, the authorities say. The group were returning from Mali, where they had attended celebrations for the…
China has dispatched its initial contingent of medical experts to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to bolster efforts against the country’s latest Ebola outbreak. The Chinese anti-epidemic medical expert team arrived in Kinshasa on…
By Moige William and Ronald Ssekandi East Africa’s high unemployment level is pushing young people to the extreme where well organised individuals through fraudulent job advertisements and a promise for a better life are luring them to…
May 31, 2026 (Ethiopia Insider) – The 7th general national elections in Ethiopia are scheduled for Monday, June 1, 2026. Official documents from the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) indicate that the election is expected to take…
By Theophilus Abbah How new machines did not help Nigerian voters “I was so frustrated and exhausted,” Josephine Ochadamu says when asked about her experiences as an Assistant Presiding Officer at a polling unit in Nasarawa State during…
By Selay Kouassi It is March 2025, seven months before the much-anticipated presidential elections. In the brightly lit conference room of the Plateau Mövenpick Hotel in Abidjan, government representatives, diplomats, political party…
Imagine being promised a well-paying job abroad, only to end up being sold into labor slavery. In the shadows of Southeast Asia’s booming cyber-scam industry, hundreds of Kenyans and Ugandans have been lured, trafficked, and forced by job…
By Charles Mafa For more than four decades, Caesar Masina (62), a resident of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, has participated in his country’s elections, lining up at polling stations, casting his ballot, and watching governments change through…
The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has appointed a new Chief of Staff. In a statement released on May 25, the AUC confirmed the appointment of Dr. Yann Bedzigui as its new Chief of Staff. Yann…
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government in a dramatic political split between the two allies who came to power together in 2024 following a wave of…
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is rolling out a series of educational programmes in Kenya aimed at bringing to light a chapter of history that has long gone untold — the role East Africa played in the First and Second World…
Anita Among is a Ugandan accountant, lawyer, and politician who served as the Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda from March 2022 until 2026. Among represents the Bukedea District Women Constituency in Parliament and is a member of…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says there have now been 600 suspected cases of Ebola and 139 suspected deaths, with numbers expected to rise further given the time taken to detect the virus. Fifty-one cases have now been confirmed in…
The Zimbabwean government welcomes the decision by the Board of Governors of the New Development Bank (NDB) to approve the launch of negotiations on the country’s accession to the organisation, said Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, Economic…
KAMPALA — Three days to Uganda’s January 15, 2026 general elections, the state shutdown internet services to avoid what the communications regulator referred to as misuse of social media to spread false propaganda to spark an uprising.…
