African News

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is set to return home later today after being acquitted of all war crimes against humanity. His once bitter rival and current president, Alassane Ouattara welcomed him back as a sign or reconciliation. Gbagbo left the country in 2011 in humiliation after losing the election. He refused to accept the defeat and this sparked ...

Local authorities in Kisii county-Kenya have arrested a man after he allegedly defiled his two daughters on Sunday night. This incident happened after police detained the children’s mother overnight for not wearing a mask. The man sexually abused his two daughters aged 12 and 14 at his home in the Nyataro area. This happened when their mother was in custody ...

The Nigerian federal government yesterday Friday 4th June banned Twitter and went ahead to release a statement why it indefinitely suspended the operations of the social media app Twitter in the country. The Ministry of Information and Culture made the announcement in a statement yesterday. “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the micro-blogging and social networking service, ...

Amnesty International, a human rights organization has asked Chad to ensure the prosecution of the officers who killed protestors. The killings happened during the April-May demonstrations where police shot dead protestors. Constitutional disorder followed the former president of Chad, Idriss Deby Itno’s death after his son, a four-star military general took over. He has been in charge of the country ...

Mali has been suspended by the African Union from participating in any activity concerned with the continental organization. This comes after the second coup in a space of nine months. The African Union went ahead to threaten the poor country with a number of sanctions if they don’t restore order immediately. The international community has also gone ahead to warn ...