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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has flown to Ethiopia to attend the 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council officially opened at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The meeting is being held under the AU Theme of the Year 2020, “ The 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council…
An arrest warrant has been issued for former South African President Jacob Zuma after he failed to appear for a scheduled court appearance Tuesday on corruption charges. Zuma is accused of accepting bribes from French arms manufacturer Thales, which signed a $2 billion arms deal with South Africa in 1999, when Zuma served as deputy…
Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Monday nullified the results of last year’s presidential election, citing “widespread, systematic and grave” irregularities including significant use of correction fluid to alter the outcome. The two leading opposition candidates had challenged the narrow election win of President Peter Mutharika, alleging that irregularities affected over 1.4 million of the total 5.1…
Burundi’s ruling party said Sunday that party leader General Evariste Ndayishimiye will stand as its candidate in a presidential election in May. Ndayishimiye is an ally of current President Pierre Nkurunziza who will not seek a new mandate after his controversial election to a third term in 2015 plunged the country into crisis. Nkurunziza was…
Isabel dos Santos, the tycoon daughter of Angola’s former president, has been charged with money laundering and mismanagement, Angolan prosecutors said, as they launched a bid Thursday to have the billionairess and other suspects return home for questioning. One of five named suspects, a Portuguese banker identified at the weekend in a worldwide media exclusive…
Clashes between Sudanese security forces in the capital this week have raised questions about loyalty and stability in the military and the country’s transitional unity government, with some Sudanese seeing the violence as a serious threat to the nation’s security and its move toward democracy. The ongoing violence in Khartoum, coming on the heels of…
Harare: The power struggle between Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and his deputy, Vice President Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, over control of the country has hit boiling point, after reports that Chiwenga has put Mnangagwa under virtual military house arrest. This comes at a time when indications of the president’s embarassing exit from office continue to…
At least four people were killed, including a senior government official, when a car bomb exploded close to a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. A plume of thick black smoke was seen over the city and witnesses said a number of vehicles were on fire. Islamist group Al-Shabaab…
Ugandan Allied Democratic Force [ADF] rebels on Saturday shot a plane belonging to the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo [MONUSCO]. This was during an offensive by Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [FARDC] against the rebels ADF around Camp Madina (40 km NE of Beni), in the “Triangle…
United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) has donated medical equipment to African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Level Two Force Hospital in Sector One. The function was officiated by the Acting Force Commander Maj Gen James Nakibus Lakara, who thanked the UN for the timely donation that will go a long way to boost…
