The Doctors’ Strike: A failure of leadership
It is about a month since the resident doctors embarked on a strike, following allegations of theft by their minister. There has been a series of meetings,...
Kenya Supreme Court criticizes election board in verdict on polls
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police tear-gassed opposition supporters demonstrating near the Supreme Court on Wednesday as judges began to deliver a detailed ruling that criticized the election...
South Africa student fights to keep thesis in robbery
Video from security cameras in a suburb of the South African city Johannesburg shows the moment a student was attacked by armed robbers.
Noxolo Ntusi, a medical scientist...
Senegal’s ex-President Wade steps down as MP
Senegal's former President Abdoulaye Wade, who, at 91, successfully ran as an MP for an opposition collation in July's parliamentary elections, will not be taking up his...
Cameroon bans ‘opposition’ TV channel
The Cameroonian government says it has banned Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Corporation (SCBC TV) from the airwaves, but hasn’t been able to stop transmission.
That’s because the channel is...
LIVE Afrobasket 2017 : Final Senegal vs Nigeria
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Angola elects new president after 38 years of dos Santos rule
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After the mudslides: Sierra Leone’s body collectors
Freetown, Sierra Leone - A group of young men wearing protective suits and face masks pace the riverbanks looking for body parts.
One of them removes his mask...
African Union satisfied with Angola elections preparations
The African Union observer mission in Angola has expressed satisfaction with the preparations towards Wednesday’s elections in the oil-rich southern African country.
The 40-member observer mission led by...
Marocco : A girl violated sexually in a bus
A video of a young girl being violently sexually harassed by a group of teenagers in a bus has been massively shared on social media Sunday night....
Africa’s top shots: 3-9 February 2017
A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.
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PRINCESS AKOBUNDU EXPRESSES OPTIMISM ON GAINS OF THE AU SUMMIT AS HEADS OF STATES...
By Lawrence Okoh, Abuja.
Ahead of the meeting of African Heads of States and Government at the ongoing 38th Summit of Heads of States and Government organized by...
Guinea’s President Conde is new AU Chairperson
Guinea's President Alpha Conde has been named the new chairperson of the African Union at the ongoing 28th AU Summit in the Ethiopia capital, Addis Ababa.
He replaces...
Nigerian military flight spotted at Banjul Int’l Airport
A Nigerian military flight has been spotted at the Banjul international Airport in Yundum, credible sources have informed The Fatu network
The flight that first landed...
ECOWAS leaders to meet in Accra to take ‘major decision’ on Gambia’s political impasse
By Alhagie Jobe: Leaders from the sub-regional bloc, ECOWAS, are meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, this Saturday, January 7th, 2017 to take what they call...
‘Military intervention to unseat Gambia’s Jammeh should be the last resort’
Senegalese President Macky Sall has stated that a military intervention to unseat Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh will be a last resort.
He said during an interview broadcast...
Ibn Chambers to Jammeh : “The end is here”
"For Mr. Jammeh, the end is here and under no circumstances can he continue to be president" The Special Representative of the U.N , Secretary General and...
Ecowas says ‘could send troops’ if Yahya Jammeh refuses to go
The sub-regional grouping – Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says military intervention in The Gambia is ‘possible’ if outgoing President Yahya Jammeh does not step...