Category : Africa
Africa
Burkina Faso: Thousands protest over jihadist attacks
Thousands took to the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday to call for a tougher government response to a wave of jihadist attacks that...
Coup in Mali: Assimi Goïta back in charge
The president and prime minister of Mali were ousted by the officer who led last year’s coup and became vice-president of an interim government. Colonel...
Ex-Mali coup leader won’t stand trial for 2012 killings
The man who overthrew Mali’s president in 2012, former Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, will no longer stand trial on charges he had 21 soldiers killed...
Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania’s first woman president
Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar...
Death of Tanzania’s Magufuli draws sorrow but ire from some
News of the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli drew mixed reactions; sorrow from many but bitterness from a critic who said he suffered during...
Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has died at 61
President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight,...
South Africa’s Zulu king is buried amid praise, controversy
The traditional leader of South Africa’s 12 million Zulu people, King Goodwill Zwelithini, has been laid to rest in a private ceremony early Thursday. Zwelithini,...
Central African Republic votes amid tight security after December violence
Central African Republic voted at heavily guarded polling stations in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday after rebel violence marred December’s polls. Voting...
The kidnapped woman who defied Boko Haram
Mass kidnappings of children in Nigeria have been making global headlines recently and this has been hard to watch for a young woman who was...
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini dies in South Africa aged 72
King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died in hospital where he was being treated for diabetes-related issues. The king, 72,...