In a dramatic turn of events in West African politics, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, Burkina Faso’s transitional leader, has publicly accused Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of spreading falsehoods about Burkina Faso....
In a dramatic turn of events in West African politics, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, Burkina Faso’s transitional leader, has publicly accused Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of spreading falsehoods about Burkina Faso. This exchange has re-ignited tensions between the two nations, raising questions about regional relations and...
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, from the governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), has been voted in as Namibia’s first female president after last week’s disputed election. The electoral commission said she had won more than 57% of the votes cast, with her closest rival Panduleni Itula getting 26%. But following...
The Supreme Court of Equatorial Guinea has delivered a landmark ruling in the widely publicized #BalthazarEngonga scandal, clearing the prominent figure of all charges related to a series of explicit videos that sent shockwaves across the nation. In a decisive verdict, the court ruled that all women featured in...
What the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in the real-life drama over who will become Equatorial Guinea’s next president. Over the past fortnight, dozens of videos – estimates range from 150 to more than 400 – have...
The serving Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF) of Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Ebang Engonga, has been caught in one of the country’s largest sex scandals. The Director General, National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, has been arrested for allegedly recording over 400 sextapes...
A controversial agreement to grant Ukrainian diplomats visa-free access to South Africa has sparked outrage within political circles. South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, who is from a different party to the president, announced the deal on Sunday, terming Ukraine a “valued ally”. But the presidency has criticised...
The groom, Mbongeni Moyo, was reportedly left stunned as his wife left him to spend the night with Geshom Gwatiringa, a police officer stationed at Hillside Police Station. Sisasenkosi Mpofu, a newlywed bride from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, abandoned her husband on their wedding night in order to be with her secret...
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has now sacked three top judges he previously suspended over alleged judicial misconduct, drawing further accusations of political interference in the judiciary. The three Constitutional Court judges presided over a presidential petition in 2016 in which they dismissed Hichilema’s challenge against the election victory of former President...
Kenyan senators have voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office despite his failure to testify at his impeachment trial after his lawyer said he had been taken to hospital. In one of the most dramatic days in Kenya’s recent political history, Gachagua had been due to appear...
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace , Allen Onyema, has been charged with superseding an indictment with obstruction of justice after it was found that he submitted false documents to the US government to end an investigation that resulted in previous charges of bank fraud and...