African News

Zambians voted in nationwide elections on Thursday after a tense campaign dominated by economic woes and Covid-19. 16 presidential candidates are vying for the country’s top job. However, the frontrunners are incumbent Edgar Lungu, 64, and his old nemesis and business tycoon Hakainde Hichilema, 59. The two are facing off at the polls for the third time. Hichilema, who is ...

Her excellency, Samia Suluhu Hassan has narrated the disbelief everyone has in her leadership because she is a woman. She revealed that even her own government workers doubted her competence for this position. “Even some of my government workers dismissed me at first as just another woman, but they soon accepted my leadership. But this is not just in Africa, ...

Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo on Monday proposed setting up a new political party according to his deeply divided Ivorian Popular Front (FPI). During a crunch meeting of party leaders, Gbagbo took it out on his former prime minister, Pascal Affi N’Guessan who is currently the party president. He then proposed creating a new instrument of struggle in line with ...

Tanzania will today start covid vaccination after the country acknowledged that the decease is indeed real. Former president, the late, Magufuli had said Covid is a scam from the western world. He had even stopped the publishing of covid statistics so that people don’t live in fear. However, with the change in leadership, President Samia Suluhu came with her own ...

President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast is set to meet with his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo later today since their post-election conflict 10 years ago. Many have referred to this as a key moment in the turbulent politics of Ivory Coast. Gbagbo, 76, since his return from Europe last month, has leapt into the spotlight after winning a landmark case at ...