KIGALI – Outgoing African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has managed to tick at least two big items off the to-do list she had in her term at the helm of the continental body. In her last opening speech at the AU’s heads of state on Sunday, she said the one item the AU managed…
RABAT – Morocco has formally announced its wish to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after leaving the organisation. In a message to the AU summit in Rwanda, the Moroccan King Mohammed VI said the time had come for his country to retake its place within its institutional family. Morocco left the AU in 1984,…
KAMPALA – The Ugandan president has become a meme sensation after being photographed making an important phone call while sitting on a portable chair at the side of the road. Yoweri Museveni was on his way to a public engagement in the south west district of Isingiro when his motorcade ground to a halt, a…
JOHANNESBURG – A South African court has charged identical twin brothers with terrorism for allegedly plotting to attack Jewish targets and a US diplomatic mission. Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie and two others were arrested in Johannesburg following police raids over the weekend. They are said to have been planning to join so-called Islamic State in…
JOHANNESBURG – Four people suspected of being Islamic State (IS) supporters arrested in anti-terrorism police raids across Johannesburg are expected to appear in court on Monday. The four‚ a woman and three men aged between 20 and 24‚ were arrested in raids on homes in Newclare and Azaadville on Sunday. The arrests bring to an…
ACCRA – Nine people have died in Ghana’s second city, Kumasi, following a stampede at a party to mark the end of Ramadan, local media report. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and one person is in a critical condition, Joy FM reports. There are conflicting reports of the cause of Wednesday night’s…
NAIROBI – Three Kenyan police officers have appeared in court over the murder of a human rights lawyer, whose body was found on Friday after he went missing. Willie Kimani disappeared after lodging a complaint against a police officer on behalf of a client, who was also killed, along with their driver. The Law Society…
CAPE TOWN – Plans to acquire a new luxury presidential jet with an estimated price tag of R4bn is the equivalent of sixteen Nkandlas and the Gupta’s are likely to score big. This is according to DA leader Mmusi Maimane, who dubbed, in his newsletter, the potential new jet for President Jacob Zuma as “Nkandla…
CAIRO – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power after a bloody crackdown on political Islamists, called on Wednesday for religious reforms to counter extremists in a speech to Muslim clerics. Sisi has often warned that Islamist extremism presents a vital threat to the region, which he suggested lags in development and women’s…
JOHANNESBURG – The only certainty in all this is uncertainty. Uncertainty on the markets and uncertainty over the future of trade relations between the UK and Africa. The most internationally traded African currency, the South African rand, is already having a bumpy ride in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union….
