BRAZZAVILLE – Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso has won a new five-year term with over 60 percent of the vote, the interior minister said on Thursday, but the opposition rejected the outcome, alleging fraud and calling for civil disobedience. Check also: Niger’s president Mahamadou Issoufou has been re-elected Residents said Brazzaville, capital of the oil-producing Central African nation where ...

A photo mashup, posted on Facebook, shows 92-year-old Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe posing cozily with singer Rihanna and wearing hip hop garb, including a baseball cap that sits askew above his glasses. Check also: Ex Zimbawean vice president Mujuru forms zpf party to race with Mugabe Prosecutors didn’t think the spoof was funny. A printed screenshot of the image is ...

Poland’s prime minister says his country is no longer prepared to take the 7,000 refugees it agreed to accept in negotiations with the European Union because of the deadly Brussels attacks. Check also: 31 people dead in Brussels terror attacks Poland had planned to admit an initial 400 refugees this year, and the rest would be allowed in over the ...

Niger’s president, Mahamadou Issoufou has been re-elected as his main opponent remains in France seeking medical treatment after being jailed for several months. Check also: Niger’s lion president Muhamadou Issoufou to face run off vote Mahamadou Issoufou’s  rival Hama Amadou received 18 percent of the vote, which saw a low turnout after the opposition called for a boycott.  Amadou was arrested ...

KAMPALA – Uganda’s capital city, was eerily quiet on Saturday, Feb. 20, the day the Ugandan Electoral Commission announced the results of the presidential election held two days before. Even in Kabalagala, a lively district where people are usually partying at any time of day, the streets were empty. A few dozen young men sat huddled around a TV in ...