AFRICA

Juba, South Sudan | AFP |  South Sudan’s government sacked a dozen judges who had been on strike for the past two months, the country’s information minister told AFP on Thursday. “The president yesterday issued an order relieving some of the judges,” Michael Makuei said, without explaining the reasons for …

Gaborone, Botswana | AFP |  The Dalai Lama will visit Botswana next month and meet with President Ian Khama in a trip likely to anger China, a key investor across Africa and its largest trade partner. Beijing views the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist campaigning for Tibetan independence and …

Accra, Ghana | AFP |  The British manager of Ghana Premier League side Asante Kotoko and one of his players were hospitalised after a bus crash that killed a member of their back-room staff, the club said on Thursday. The crash happened when the team bus rammed into a stationary …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  At least six police officers were killed and four injured in Laikipia in Kenya’s central highlands on Wednesday in the latest violent incident to hit the area. Police said the officers were killed in a shoot-out with suspected ethnic Pokot “bandits” in the Kamwenje area …

Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP |Last month, a baby was born in the Somali capital Mogadishu with a terrible eye defect that requires treatment abroad. The infant was cleared for treatment in Turkey but before the paperwork was complete a container ship, believed to be the Panama-flagged MSC Alice, docked outside …

Washington, United States | AFP |“I have decided more time is needed for this review to establish that the Government of Sudan has demonstrated sufficient positive action across all of those areas,” Trump’s order said, adding that “the Government of Sudan has made some progress”. Washington imposed a complex set …

Lusaka, Zambia | AFP |Zambia’s parliament on Tuesday approved a 90-day state of emergency decreed by President Edgar Lungu, a move that critics see as an effort to tighten his grip on power. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote by leaving the chamber, leaving only the 85 members of the president’s …

Abuja, Nigeria | AFP |  Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the acting head of government, was in London on Tuesday to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been receiving unspecified medical treatment there since May 7. No date has been set for the 74-year-old leader’s return and he has …

Survey shows regional institutional investor base expanding due to favourable demographics Africa Renewel | JOHN SCHELLHASE | Capital markets, where money from savers is put into long-term investments, can contribute significantly to socio-economic development if they invest in productive projects and enterprises. But small size and market illiquidity can undercut …

game President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has urged fellow heads of State and government to embrace speedy reform of the African Union is to avert an existential threat from external parties. President Kagame was on June 03 presenting a report on the implementation of the Institutional Reforms of the African …