Tag Archives: politics

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | At least 11 people died as gunfire erupted during protests on Tuesday in Democratic Republic of Congo against longtime President Joseph Kabila, who is refusing to leave office as his mandate ends. Shots rang out in the capital Kinshasa, where at least nine people …

Gunfire and arrests in DR Congo as Kabila’s mandate ends Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Gunfire erupted in major DR Congo cities and the UN voiced alarm over a wave of arrests, as protesters demanded President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate expired Tuesday. With fears of violence …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP |   People stayed home across Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, leaving troops to patrol ghost cities as tension peaked hours before President Joseph Kabila’s mandate ends, but with no election in sight. Kabila’s second term expires at midday on December 20, but he …

The High Court in Kampala has granted permission to Rubaga South voter Habib Buwembo to file an election petition challenging the academic qualification of his area  Member of Parliament Paul Kato Lubwama. Justice Magret Oguli Oumo said he had found evidence of fraud on a court record,  Kato having told the Electoral Commission that he …

The Democratic Party’s Secretary General Mathias Nsubuga Birekeraawo died Sunday evening, after a reported stroke. DP President Norbert Mao confirmed the death of the veteran Ugandan politician. ” With deep sorrow I announce the death of Hon. Mathias Nsubuga, Secretary General of the Democratic Party. We have lost a most clean …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Security forces patrolled the tense streets of Kinshasa on Sunday after the suspension of last-ditch talks to find a peaceful way out of the nation’s political crisis sparked by the end of President Joseph Kabila’s mandate. Negotiations to agree a way forward for the …

Joseph Kabila: DR Congo’s young, enigmatic leader Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP |  Still relatively young after 16 years leading the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila is a secretive president at the centre of a political crisis in his vast, conflict-ravaged nation. Tuesday marks the end of the second …

Banjul, Gambia | AFP |  Longtime Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who initially conceded defeat in a December 1 presidential poll, has lodged a Supreme Court case to challenge the result, despite pressure from the international community for him to cede power peacefully. The opposition in the small West African country, …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The UN has stopped The Gambia’s controversial army chief from visiting troops serving as peacekeepers in Darfur, as international pressure grows on the country’s top brass to accept incoming president-elect Adama Barrow. Gambian security forces seized the country’s Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday, drawing international …

Istanbul, Turkey | AFP |  It had seemed impossible to find insults more scathing. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of trading oil with Islamic State jihadists and making modern Turkey’s founder Ataturk “roll in his grave”. In a loud slanging match between two masters of …