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TANZANIA – President meets with Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Merck...
The Chairman of the Management Board and the CEO of the Merck Foundation meet with the President of Tanzania to discuss...
SUDAN: The long-awaited trial against Omar al-Bashir is finally open.
It is this Monday, August 19, 2019 that the corruption trial against the former Sudanese head of state Omar el-Bashir was opened...
DJIBOUTI – The outgoing president, Ismaël Omar Guelleh, reelected with 98.5% of the vote...
The fifth mandate of the President of the Republic, Ismaël Omar Guelleh, is now signed. According to the provisional results of the...
KENYA: The presidential election canceled.
The Supreme Court of Nairobi has just canceled the presidential election on Friday 1 September 2017.
On 8 August 2017 last outgoing President Uluru Kenyatta...
ETHIOPIA: Parliamentary elections to be held on 5 June 2021
The Ethiopian Electoral Commission announced on Friday 25 December 2020 that the parliamentary elections will take place on 5 June 2021....
SUDAN: Does Omar El Bashir face death penalty ?
It is on Tuesday 21 July 2020 that the former Sudanese president will appear before the court in Khartoum the capital. He...
ETHIOPIA – Parliamentary elections postponed again
Initially scheduled to take place in August 2020, the Ethiopian parliamentary elections had already been postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19....
KENYA: Raila Odinga lays down its conditions.
The main opposition leader Raila Odinga has listed his conditions for his participation in the presidential election of October 17, 2017. This date was...
UGANDA: Opponent Bobi Wine attacked by security forces
His real name Robert Kyagulanyi, Bobi wine, presidential candidate, of January 14, 2021 was forced to end his campaign on Tuesday,...
SOUTH SUDAN: Historic peace agreement signed between Sudan and rebel groups
A historic peace deal has just been sealed between Sudan and rebel groups this Saturday, October 3, 2020 in Juba, the...
SOUDAN – Postponement of the trial of Al-Bashir and the sponsors of the 1989...
Until further notice, due to the presentation by the defense committee of protest notes to the court, against what it considers to...
KENYA: President Kenyatta accuses the Supreme Court of a “coup d’etat”.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday accused the Supreme Court of having perpetrated a "coup d'etat" by invalidating his re-election in the August...
UGANDA: Voters at the polls to elect their President
Ugandans are being called to the polls this Thursday, January 14, 2021, to elect their President. The polling stations opened this...
UGANDA: Justice Orders Lifting of Bobi Wine’s House Arrest
On Monday, 25 January 2021, the Ugandan judiciary ended the house arrest of Bobi Wine. The unfortunate presidential candidate on 14...
SUDAN – The country will soon ratify the Rome Statute
The Sudanese transitional government voted on Tuesday, 03 August 2021, in favour of the ratification of the Rome Statute of the...
KENYA: The tension, goes up to the approach of the presidential.
A decade after the post-election violence that had left 1,100 dead, concern is set to approach the presidential scheduled on October 26.
This new date...
UGANDA: Yoweri Museveni re-elected for sixth term
President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected for a sixth term on Saturday, 16 January 2021. It obtained 58.64% of the votes cast...
TANZANIA: President John Magufuli is suspicious of anti-covid’s Vaccines
The debate on the reliability of vaccine vaccines continues to provoke caution among African leaders. This is the case of the...
ETHIOPIA – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calls for national mobilization against rebels
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a solemn appeal against his compatriots on Tuesday, 10 August 2021. It invites "all able...
KENYA: Decision of the Supreme Court or a skein of Law, Politics and Emotion.
In view of the latest developments in the political situation in Kenya, fraught with peril, one has the right to wonder whether the extremely...
UGANDA: Under house arrest since the day after the presidential election, Bobi Wine lodges...
Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has been under house arrest since Friday, January 15, 2021. The Ugandan opposition leader, who can’t...
SUDAN: New government formed after months of negotiations
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok announced Monday, February 08, 2021, the formation of a new government composed of ministers from various...
SUDAN – Signing of an agreement with the ICC to deliver justice in the...
The Sudanese government signed an agreement with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday, 12 August 2021.This memorandum of understanding is...
KENYA: Election of 26 October: At least 3 dead and 20 wounded
At least three people were shot dead during clashes between police and opposition supporters. The violence reportedly left at least 20 wounded, some shot....
RWANDA: Paul Kagame calls for fair distribution of vaccines
The Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, has been very critical, in a public forum, against the Western powers that have monopolized vaccines...
TANZANIA – Opponent Freeman Mbowe, Chadema’s leader before the courts for the first time
The trial of the main opposition party leader in Tanzania was opened on Tuesday, 31 August 2021. He has been charged with...
ETHIOPIA: Prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn unexpectedly resigns.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Haïlemariam Desalegn resigned Thursday (February 15th) from the head of the Ethiopian government. He also left the presidency of the ruling...
DJIBOUTI: Ismaël Omar Guelleh meets Emmanuel Macron in Paris
After having met the French employers and the Senate on Thursday, February 11, 2021, the head of State of Djibouti Ismaël...
TANZANIA – First time in Tanzania: Samia Hassan Appoints Woman Defence Minister
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed a woman, including Stergomena Lawrence Tax, as Minister of Defence and National Service. A first...
SUDAN: The African Union suspends the country until the establishment of a civilian transitional...
Sudan is suspended from the African Union (AU), the pan-African organization, until the creation of a civilian authority of transition in this...
SENEGAL: Adji Sarr’s lawyer breaks silence: “We have all the evidence of rape”
Me Abdou Dialy Kane, lawyer for Adji Sarr, breaks the silence. He is speaking out for the first time on this...
ETHIOPIA – Facebook deletes PM Abiy Ahmed’s publication
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, suppressed a Sunday publication by Ethiopian Prime Minister (PM) Abiy Ahmed that called on Ethiopians to “bury”...
TANZANIA: President finds a solution against long detentions.
In power since October 29, 2015, John Pompe Joseph Magufuli of his real name, is the head of the Tanzanian state. Aware of the...
