Category: Africa

Source: Reuters Togo has suspended broadcasts of French state-funded international news outlets RFI and France 24 for three months, its communications authority said on Monday,

Source: BBC  Nigeria’s president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage. Along with eight other campaigners, Mr

Kenya’s independent police oversight body has launched an investigation into the death of a man who had been detained “for false publication”, police have said.

Source: BBC Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by

Source: BBC A US-funded flight carrying the first group of 49 white South Africans has landed in Washington where the Trump administration is to grant

Source: BBC A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a

Source: BBC  A Rwandan beekeeper living in the US has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide in his country. Faustin Nsabumukunzi

Source: Vanguard News  The World Bank has projected that poverty will increase in Nigeria by three percentage points in five years to 2027. The World

Source: BBC  Burkina Faso’s military government has said it foiled a “major plot” to overthrow junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré, with the army alleging the

Source: BBC  Gabon’s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema – who in 2023 led a coup that ended a near-60-year dynasty – has won Saturday’s