China has organised seminars and training courses for officials in African and Latin American countries, aimed at promoting its single-party system and President Xi Jinping’s worldview, a report said this week.A central pillar of Xi’s rule has been the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive infrastructure project that China uses to expand its clout …
South Africa’s newly elected parliament met Friday and was expected to re-elect President Cyril Ramaphosa to form an unprecedented coalition government as his humbled ANC raced to cobble together a deal.Chief Justice Raymond Zondo opened the first sitting of South Africa’s seventh parliament since the advent of post-apartheid democracy in 1994, swearing in MPs in …
S.African parliament meets as ANC nears coalition dealFri, 14 Jun 2024 09:22:55 GMT Read More »
Nigerian cattle herder Suleiman Ahmed lifted his sleeve and showed the scars from the machete attack that shattered his wrist at a market in the country’s central plains.When he moved onto a model reserve meant to ease community tensions, he thought he would be safe. Instead, he was thrown into one of West Africa’s oldest conflicts …
Old wounds, new conflict on Nigeria’s grazing reservesFri, 14 Jun 2024 06:28:55 GMT Read More »
South Africa’s newly-elected parliament meets Friday and is expected to re-elect President Cyril Ramaphosa to form an unprecedented coalition government after his ruling ANC cobbled together a coalition deal.The African National Congress leader had called for a government of national unity after his party lost its absolute majority in last month’s general election, but two …
The UN Security Council on Thursday demanded an end to the siege of El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region, where fighting between government and paramilitary forces has provoked a humanitarian crisis.War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by …
UN Security Council demands end to Darfur city’s siegeThu, 13 Jun 2024 20:04:05 GMT Read More »
South Africa’s long-standing ruling ANC said Thursday it has reached an agreement with several other parties to form a coalition, after failing to win an outright majority in May’s general election.Speaking on the eve of the first sitting of the newly-elected parliament, party secretary general Fikile Mbalula said the government would “gravitate to the centre”, after …
S.Africa’s ANC strikes 11th-hour deal to form governmentThu, 13 Jun 2024 19:27:12 GMT Read More »
Kenya’s finance minister on Thursday presented the East African nation’s biggest ever budget, alongside contentious tax proposals to help plug a hole in the public finances.Critics say the new tax levies will weigh heavily on a population already saddled with a biting cost-of-living crisis.Finance Minister Njuguna Ndung’u presented the four-trillion-shilling ($31.1-billion) budget for 2024/25 to …
Kenya eyes budget deficit with new tax hikesThu, 13 Jun 2024 15:26:38 GMT Read More »
Benin voudon religious dignitary Oscar Kptenon is still in shock, ten days after the fall of a centuries-old giant tree on a historic square in Ouidah, once at the heart of the slave trade. A huge storm brought down the tree that for centuries stood witness to where slaves were auctioned before being shipped off from …
Storm destroys symbolic tree in Benin voodoo capitalThu, 13 Jun 2024 14:07:55 GMT Read More »
The party of Malawi’s vice-president Saulos Chilima, who was killed this week in a plane crash, on Thursday demanded an investigation.Chilima died on Monday alongside eight others when a military aircraft on an internal flight crashed into Malawi’s Chikangawa Forest in dense fog.His party, the United Transformation Movement (UTM), allied with President Lazarus Chakwera’s Malawi …
Late Malawi VP’s party demands probe into plane crashThu, 13 Jun 2024 13:06:43 GMT Read More »
Kenya’s finance minister is due to present Thursday the East African economic powerhouse’s biggest ever budget, alongside a contentious finance bill that contains a raft of new or increased taxes.President William Ruto’s government has drawn up a four-trillion-shilling ($31.1-billion) budget for 2024/25, up from 3.75 trillion shillings it approved last June for the current fiscal …
Kenya to present budget with new tax hikesThu, 13 Jun 2024 10:46:54 GMT Read More »
