Colonel Michael Randrianirina is set to be sworn in as Madagascar’s transitional president, following a military coup that ousted President Andry Rajoelina. The new leadership announced that Randrianirina would assume office during a formal hearing of the High Constitutional Court on October 17. Rajoelina, who fled abroad after being impeached by lawmakers, condemned the takeover […]
Niger State Police Command has disclosed that on October 9, 2025, at about 4.50 pm, the police patrol team attached to New-Bussa Division, in Borgu Local Government, with vigilante members, while on routine patrol along Luma-Wawa road, intercepted and arrested one Yahaya Dashu, 40 years of Daba area, New-Bussa, with a locally made pistol and […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, of incitement and treason in response to a corruption dossier Chiwenga reportedly presented to the Zanu PF politburo, escalating the party’s internal power struggle. Through newly appointed Legal Affairs Secretary Ziyambi Ziyambi, Mnangagwa dismissed the dossier, which alleged party capture and corruption, as “fundamentally flawed” and […]
A civil society group has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare illegal the deportation deal between Ghana and the US government, and the way the west African deportees are being treated, court documents show. Ghanaian leader John Mahama disclosed last month that his country had struck a deal with the United States to accept deportees […]
Madagascar’s military have seized control of the country after weeks of Gen Z-led protests that peaked over the weekend. Army Colonel Michael Randrianirina of the CAPSAT unit announced on national radio that the military had taken power and dissolved all state institutions except the lower house of parliament. The move followed parliament’s vote to impeach […]
Raila Odinga, a central figure in Kenyan politics for over three decades who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times, has died in India following a heart attack. He was an iconic figure in Kenya’s democratic history, “admired and contested” in equal measure for his reformist zeal and five spirited but unsuccessful presidential bids. Odinga […]
The crocodile farming industry has emerged as a key contributor to Zimbabwe’s economy, amid a surge in exports of crocodile skin products, creating jobs and stimulating economic growth in the country. Deputy minister at the Lands, Agriculture, and Fisheries ministry, Davis Marapira, announced that crocodile skin exports increased from US$32 million to US$34 million over […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have mourned the 43 people who died when a Harare-bound bus overturned near Makhado in Limpopo, about 100km from the Beitbridge Border Post. The accident occurred when the overloaded bus veered off the N1 Highway and plunged into an embankment. Mnangagwa expressed shock and grief over […]
France has evacuated President Andry Rajoelina after a mutinous army unit in Madagascar declared that it took control of all military forces. An army unit known as CAPSAT joined thousands of protesters in the city in a major shift in a more than two-week anti-government youth-led protest movement. CAPSAT said it had taken over the […]
Côte d’Ivoire’s two main opposition parties have called for daily nationwide protests less than two weeks before the presidential election, after their leaders, Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, were barred from contesting against incumbent President Alassane Ouattara. Security forces dispersed a banned march in Abidjan with tear gas, arresting 237 people and injuring several others. […]
