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Guinea’s junta has suspended three main political parties — including that of former president Alpha Conde — for three months, ahead of an electoral campaign for a rewrite of the constitution, according to an order seen by AFP on Saturday.The move came as the main parties and civil society groups in the west African nation …

Guinea’s junta suspends three main political partiesSat, 23 Aug 2025 09:09:53 GMT Read More »

A Gambian man convicted of torturing opponents of the African country’s former president was sentenced to more than 67 years in a US prison on Friday.Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the “Junglers,” which answered to The Gambia’s then-president, Yahya Jammeh.Correa was convicted by a jury in Denver, Colorado, in …

Gambian ‘death squad’ member sentenced to 67 years in US prisonFri, 22 Aug 2025 21:42:06 GMT Read More »

A military prosecutor on Friday demanded the death penalty for DR Congo’s former president Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on treason charges.Kabila’s party called the proceedings “a political trial”.General Lucien Rene Likulia called on judges to condemn Kabila to death for war crimes, treason and organising an insurrection.The former president, 53, went …

Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Kabila in treason trialFri, 22 Aug 2025 19:15:38 GMT Read More »

Niger’s army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias “Bakura”, without providing evidence, prompting caution from experts and a denial from the jihadist group.After its founding in neighbouring Nigeria in the early 2000s, Boko Haram achieved worldwide notoriety by kidnapping more than 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, in the country’s northeast.Much remains …

What we know about Boko Haram leader Niger claims to have killedFri, 22 Aug 2025 16:16:59 GMT Read More »

Niger’s army said its soldiers killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad basin, but experts cast doubt over the unverified claim.Since Boko Haram’s insurgency to establish an Islamic caliphate in neighbouring northeast Nigeria began in 2009, the conflict has left 40,000 people dead and forced more than two million …

Doubts over Niger claim that a Boko Haram leader killedFri, 22 Aug 2025 12:22:02 GMT Read More »

Fred Ngusilo stoops to pick up a leather pouch, once used to collect honey, and a discarded shoe from the Mau forest floor, painful reminders that his Ogiek hunter-gatherer community once quietly flourished in southern Kenya, before they were evicted and their homes destroyed.Ngusilo belongs to the Ogiek group, which is among the last hunter-gatherer …

Evicted from their forests, Kenyan hunter-gatherers fight for their rightsFri, 22 Aug 2025 05:15:12 GMT Read More »

Rights groups are questioning a multimillion-dollar arms sale by the United States to Nigeria as security forces in the west African nation continue to be accused of killing civilians with impunity.Last week the State Department approved the possible sale of $346 million in weapons, including bombs, rockets and munitions, to Nigeria, which is battling jihadist militants …

$346 mn US-Nigeria arms deal sets rights groups on edgeFri, 22 Aug 2025 02:24:18 GMT Read More »

Violence erupted in Kenya’s capital on Thursday, with police deploying teargas, as impeached former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua returned from a political tour in the United States.Gachagua campaigned for President William Ruto during the 2022 election but the two dramatically fell out last year, leading to his impeachment, and he has now become one of …

Chaotic return for Kenya’s former deputy presidentThu, 21 Aug 2025 16:33:47 GMT Read More »

Investigating judges in Paris have ordered the dismissal of a case accusing the widow of Rwanda’s former president of involvement in the 1994 genocide, according to documents seen by AFP Thursday.”There are insufficient charges against Agathe Kanziga (Habyarimana) to show she could have been an accomplice to genocide” or could have participated in “conspiracy to …

French judges order dismissal of genocide case against Rwanda ex-president’s widowThu, 21 Aug 2025 16:18:11 GMT Read More »

The African Nations Championships (CHAN) quarter-finals begin Friday after a bruising group stage, with security controversies and the unexpected successes of the host nations dominating discussion.The month-long championship, co-hosted by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has brought a football revival to a region that has rarely hosted, or shone in, continental competitions.The three hosts all topped …

East African trio score unexpected hat-trick as CHAN hostsThu, 21 Aug 2025 15:17:06 GMT Read More »