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Nigeria Ministers List – No Surprises

Nigeria Ministers List – No Surprises

National Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba Socio- political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari would have submitted the names of ministerial nominees at Eagle Square rather than to the Senate. Reacting to the speculated names of possible ministers, Odumakin who noted that there was nothing unique about the list, said the […]

First Pictures Of Zimbabwe’s Baby Elephants Exported To China Emerge

First Pictures Of Zimbabwe’s Baby Elephants Exported To China Emerge

China’s state Xinhua news agency has published the first pictures of a group of young elephants controversially exported from Zimbabwe in July. The four photos show some of the 24 elephants near and in a concrete-lined water feature at what the news agency calls Chimelong National Rare Animals and Plants Provenance Centre in Guangzhou province. […]

Uganda’s Opposition Alliance Fails To Choose A Single Candidate

Uganda’s Opposition Alliance Fails To Choose A Single Candidate

In Uganda, the opposition Democratic Alliance (TDA) has failed to choose a single candidate to challenge President Yoweri Museveni in the 2016 presidential election after nearly a week of deliberation. The two main candidates for the alliance’s leadership were Dr. Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Uganda’s main opposition party, and former […]

Burkina Faso Coup Ends: Michel Kafando Reinstated As President

Burkina Faso Coup Ends: Michel Kafando Reinstated As President

The ceremony took place in the capital, Ouagadougou, in the presence of several West African leaders who helped mediate an end to the crisis.The presidential guard carried out the coup. Its leader Gen Gilbert Diendere admitted to local media that it had been “the biggest mistake”.”We knew the people were not in favour of it. […]

Doctors’ Findings: Unganda’s Gen Aronda Nyakairima Was Struck By Acute Heart Failure

Doctors’ Findings: Unganda’s Gen Aronda Nyakairima Was Struck By Acute Heart Failure

Former Chief of Defence Forces and Internal Affiars minister, Gen Aronda Nyakairima succumbed to acute heart failure which was triggered by extensive and irreversible blockage of the heart blood vessels, according to the post-mortem findings. The report was conducted by a team of doctors including Dr Moses Byaruhanga, a forensic pathologist and head of police […]

President Mugabe Says Papers Lying a Lot About Him, Threatens Tough Action

President Mugabe Says Papers Lying a Lot About Him, Threatens Tough Action

President Robert Mugabe has threatened to introduce tough and rigid media laws accusing the press of lying and writing fiction about him. Mugabe was speaking at the luncheon of the third session of the 8th Parliament. He said standards of journalism in Zimbabwe have deteriorated to alarming levels as the scribes are writing lies about […]

Zimbabwe And Swaziland The Most Un-Free African Countries

Zimbabwe And Swaziland The Most Un-Free African Countries

ZIMBABWE and Swaziland have emerged as the most un-free African countries on a range of democracy indices such as freedom of expression, liberty to join any political association and voting for a candidate of their choosing. The latest Afrobarometer survey says 51 percent of citizens surveyed in 28 African countries believed their country was a […]

Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe Reads The Wrong Speech And Everyone Was Scared to Correct Him

Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe Reads The Wrong Speech And Everyone Was Scared to Correct Him

Zimbabwe’s 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, an error which the main opposition quickly used to question whether Africa’s oldest leader was still of a sound mind. Mugabe, the only ruler the southern African nation has known since it was recognised in 1980, delivered the […]

CPJ Joins Call for Canada to Help Free Al-Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy

CPJ Joins Call for Canada to Help Free Al-Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy

The Committee to Protect Journalists has signed a joint letter calling on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take immediate action to have jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy deported from Egypt to Canada. CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon and Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour signed the letter to Harper along with […]

Radio France Internationale Correspondent in Cameroon Held Over a Month, Denied Access to Lawyer

Radio France Internationale Correspondent in Cameroon Held Over a Month, Denied Access to Lawyer

The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the detention of a Nigerian journalist who has been held for more than a month in Cameroon and denied access to his lawyer for two weeks. CPJ also calls on Cameroonian authorities to explain the reason for Ahmed Abba’s detention and allow him immediate access to his […]

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