Namibia’s upper house of parliament passed a law on Wednesday, banning same-sex marriage and imposing penalties on its supporters. This move has been deemed as an…
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Ethiopia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday unanimously gave the green light to the creation of a 12th regional state, called the “Southern Ethiopian Region”, following…
According to the Finance Ministry, the Ugandan parliament has approved the government’s intention to increase spending by 10% to 52.73 trillion shillings ($14 billion) in the…
Munir Zulu, a Member of Parliament from Lumezi, has been arrested by the police after repeatedly failing to comply with requests to present himself to authorities.…
Senegal authorities on Thursday detained two opposition members of parliament for physically assaulting a pregnant colleague during a budget debate earlier this month, their lawyer said.…
Parliamentary debate on a devastating report that suggested South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa may have broken the constitution was scheduled to take place on Tuesday but…
In the midst of escalating hostility between members of the government and opposition parties, a violent altercation broke out in Senegal’s parliament after a male opposition…
President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau has dissolved the country’s parliament, three months after claiming to have survived a coup attempt. He accused politicians of corruption…
President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa will speak to both houses of parliament on Tuesday about the floods in the KwaZulu-Natal state. President of South Africa…
West Africa’s Benin has voted to legalise abortion in most circumstances, the health ministry said on Thursday, becoming one of only a handful of African countries to…