Browsing: Central Africa Politics

No fewer than 10 defeated presidential candidates in the Central African Republic (CAR) have called for the annulment of the presidential election results citing alleged electoral…

On Monday, authorities said 21 bodies which were “in a state of decomposition” had discovered in the localities of Loselose and Loulo in the same region after a passage of the rebels.

The Democratic Republic Congo plans to honour the country’s independence hero, Patrice Lumumba, before its 61st Independence Anniversary celebrations. Lumumba, who served as the first Prime…

UN demands an immediate’ and ‘unconditional’ of schoolboys abducted by suspected bandits at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, northern Nigeria on Dec. 11.…

Former President Pascal Lissouba of Congo-Brazaville died early in the morning this Monday on August 24 at the age of 88. The family of the former…

Bemba’s lawyers had sought a total of nearly 69 million euros including compensation for the time he spent in jail and damages for legal costs.

Ashu Prisley Ojong is one of the first senior elected official to be killed in the conflict between Cameroon’s army and English-speaking militias.

More than four dozen parties are taking part in the two elections, which should have taken place in 2017 but were twice postponed.

The children were kidnapped early Tuesday from their school in the southwestern city of Kumba and “taken to the forest where the camp of the separatists is located,” an official said.

Suspected militia fighters have decapitated 16 people in a new village massacre near Beni in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society sources said Friday.…