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Members of Burundi National assembly have voted to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday. This comes after the United Nations began an inquiry into the human rights abuses in the East African nation that is currently marred by political violence reports AFP. Check also:  How Rwanda And Burundi Became East Africa’s Bad Neighbors 94 lawmakers voted ...

With some 800,000 people killed in 100 days, the 1994 Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events of the 20th century.Twenty-two years later, the incident that sparked the mass slaughter—the shooting down of a plane carrying the then president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana—remains a mystery, with opposing sides trading accusations of liability. Check also: Rwandan President, Paul Kagame Blasts France Over ...

Nigerian oilman Muhammadu Indimi is one of Africa’s most successful businessmen. Indimi, who has a net worth of $500 million according to FORBES Magazine’s 2015 ranking of Africa’s richest people, is the founder of Oriental Energy Resource Limited a leading privately owned Nigerian oil exploration and production company. Oriental, which he founded in 1990, has three projects offshore of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. ...

Gold is now Uganda’s second largest export commodity after coffee, after posting historical highs in the last three-quarters of the financial year 2015/16. Check Also: Uganda Loses Shs3B Daily In South Sudan Conflict According to the Bank of Uganda’s (BoU) 2015/16 annual report, the gold exports value during the financial year rose to $204m (Shs693b) from a paltry $230,000 (Shs782m) in ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday criticized French investigators who last week reopened an inquiry into a plane crash that sparked the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people were killed. In a series of tweets on Monday, the Rwandan presidency said that “France should be the one tried for genocide.” Check also: How Rwanda And Burundi Became East Africa’s Bad Neighbors ...