African News

In recent developments, the Democratic Republic of Congo has closed its border with Rwanda. This follows an incident that saw a DRC soldier shot dead while in the country’s territory. The closure of the border is the most recent escalation in the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. DRC has accused Rwanda of siding with the M23 rebels who launched ...

Former Somali president Sheikh Hassan Mohamud has been voted back into power by legislators in the country’s Parliament. He defeated the incumbent, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Mohamud served as the president of the war-torn country in the Horn of Africa between 2012-2017. In the tightly contested election that had over 36 candidates, Mohamud garnered 165 votes which were sufficient for ...

In unfortunate events, two drunk soldiers gunned down a total of 15 civilians in different attacks in DR Congo according to authorities on Monday. Apparently, one of the soldiers murdered eight passengers and injured seven others aboard a boat on lake Tanganyika. South-Kivu province’s Fizi territory administrator Aime Kawaya Mutipula said all the victims were civilians including men, women and ...

On Tuesday, two separate attacks near border Niger and Burkina Faso and Libya left seven police officers and four soldiers dead. According to the country’s government, unidentified armed bandits attacked the Petelkole police station near Burkina Faso in western Niger and a military base in Djado in the country’s desert-covered far north. Besides the dead police officers, 10 others sustained ...

The government of Guinea-Bissau has today threatened to jail or impose fines on private radio station operators. The government threatened to do this over non-payment of license fees in a move branded as an attack on press freedom. The move follows the recent suspension of all private radio stations in the West African nation over unpaid fees. Seventy-six out of ...