The Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the Algerian authorities to immediately release human rights defenders, civil society activists, opposition figures, journalists, and all others arbitrarily…
Author: Babatunde Oguntimehin
The military-dominated Interim Government in Mali has set up dialogue mechanisms towards ending the ECOWAS and EU-imposed sanctions and for the country’s early return to constitutional…
Libyans on Thursday marked eleven years since the revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, but the democracy many hoped for has continued to remain as elusive as…
Uganda has announced a two-year suspension of its membership from the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) in attempt to pressurise the organisation to address its concerns as…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that six African countries – Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia would be the first on the…
The vice president of the Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (AKA Hemedti) has announced the release of detained peaceful protesters from the country’s prisons.…
Princess Esmeralda of Belgium is renewing a call for her country to apologize for its colonial past. Historians estimate that more than 10 million Congolese people…
An improvised explosive device (Land mine) has killed five Nigerien soldiers in the southwest of the Sahel country. According to the defense ministry, an army patrol…
Six peace envoys of the President of Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) have been missing since Wednesday afternoon and are believed to be held captive by…
France and several of its Western allies said on Thursday that they would begin a “coordinated withdrawal” of their military forces from Mali, accusing the junta…