South African anti-apartheid struggle veteran Aziz Pahad has died aged 82, his family announced. He passed away at his home in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening, a statement said. The family described him as a patriot and freedom fighter who dedicated his life to the governing ANC party and serving South Africans. Mr Pahad joined the struggle against apartheid rule from a very young age. In 1964 he went into exile […]
Burkina Faso's security and intelligence services foiled a coup attempt on Tuesday, according to the country's military government. It alleged that officers and others had planned to destabilise the country and throw it into chaos. It has been just less than a year since the interim President Capt Ibrahim Traoré seized power. That was the country's second coup of 2022 as it grapples with an Islamist insurgency. In a statement […]
Malian political groups expressed outrage on Wednesday (Sep. 27) at the junta's decision to postpone the presidential election that was supposed to bring back civilian rule. The ruling junta on Monday (Sep. 25) announced a delay to a presidential election scheduled for February 2024 in the jihadist-hit West African nation. New dates for the voting "will be communicated later," a government spokesman said. The reasons cited for the postponement included […]
Morocco last hosted the AFCON in 1988 and was chosen in 2015 but asked for the tournament to be postponed because of the Ebola virus, although CAF later decided to strip the north African nation of the hosting rights. While Morocco were hot favourites to host the 2025 edition of the premier African sport event, the shock last-minute withdrawal of Algeria from the 2027 race on Tuesday threw it wide […]
The United States is pausing certain foreign assistance programmes to the government of Gabon following last month’s coup, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement released by the Department of State on Tuesday. The pause would continue while “[we] evaluate the unconstitutional intervention by members of the country’s military”, Blinken said, adding that the move is in line with steps taken by the Economic Community of Central African […]
Kenya’s Defense Minister Aden Duale and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed the accord at a meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The agreement guides the countries' defense relations for the next five years as the war in East Africa against the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab extremist group intensifies. Austin thanked Kenya for volunteering to take the leadership of the Haiti multi-national force and reiterated that the U.S government would work […]
The granddaughter of South Africa’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, Zoleka, has passed away at 43 after battling metastatic cancer. The report says she was admitted to the hospital last Monday for treatment but succumbed to the disease on the eve of her grandmother’s birthday, surrounded by loved ones and friends. In a heartfelt statement shared on Instagram, a family spokesperson confirmed her passing on Monday evening. Zoleka had […]
Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye has condemned rumours of a coup against him while he was away for two weeks for meetings in Cuba and at the UN General Assembly in New York. Barely a week after the president left the country on 10 September, stories of a plot against him started circulating on social media. In his address after arriving back to the country on Sunday night, Mr Ndayishimiye blamed […]
Google on Monday unveiled a plan to pay tribute to South African jazz pianist, composer, and journalist Todd Matshikiza. Matshikiza, who died in 1968 aged 47, is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of South Africa's arts and culture. The doodle, which appears on the Google home pages as reported by the BBC was illustrated by South African-based artist Keith Vlahakis. “On this day in 1956, his commissioned […]
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