AFRICA

. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed visiting President Yoweri Museveni as a constant advocate for Africa’s economic emancipation, industrialisation and value addition through the exploitation of the continents resource. Uganda’s President  Museveni is in Zimbabwe where he will be the Chief Guest at the …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudanese protesters began gathering for a “million-strong” march Thursday to turn up the heat on the ruling military council after three of its members resigned following talks on handing over power. The rally outside the army headquarters comes after the military rulers and protest leaders agreed …

Kigali, Rwanda | KELLY RWAMAPERA | The Supreme Court in Rwanda has removed provisions in the penal code that criminalize drawing of ‘humiliating and defamatory’ cartoons against public servants and religious practices, but kept an exemption for the President. The ruling on a constitutional petition that had been filed by a …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudanese protest leaders raised the pressure on the country’s army rulers on Wednesday, threatening a general strike and calling for a million-strong march to demand a civilian government. The military council that took power after veteran president Omar al-Bashir was ousted earlier this month meanwhile invited …

Lilongwe, Malawi | AFP | Malawi has rolled out the world’s first licensed malaria vaccine in a landmark campaign against a disease that each year kills hundreds of thousands of people, especially African children. After more than three decades in development and almost $1 billion (890 million euros) in investment, …

Threat remains of spread to Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan A meeting of an emergency World Health Organisation Committee (WHO) committee has said the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the DR Congo does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) even if it has …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Egyptian voters have overwhelmingly backed constitutional changes that could see President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rule extended to 2030, the electoral board said Tuesday. National Election Authority head Lashin Ibrahim told a Cairo press conference that 88.83 percent voted “yes” in a referendum on the amendments, with …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Hundreds of protesters arrived on a packed train in Khartoum Tuesday to join a weeks-long sit-in outside army headquarters, as a top US official reiterated Washington’s backing for demands the country’s military council hand power to a civilian government. But African leaders meeting in Cairo insisted …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP |  African leaders at an emergency summit in Cairo urged Sudan’s military rulers on Tuesday to implement a democratic transition within three months, the Egyptian presidency said. Egypt and representatives from several other African nations gave Sudanese authorities and political actors three months “to implement peaceful… and …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | The election 25 years ago of South Africa’s first black president, the late Nelson Mandela, who inspired the struggle against apartheid, was a time of soaring hope that the bruised country would reconcile after decades of discrimination and inequality. “You have mandated us to …