KHARTOUM (AFP) – Sudanese army rulers and protest leaders on Wednesday (May 15) agreed on a three-year transition period for transferring power to a full civilian administration, a general announced. “We agreed on a transitional period of three years,” Lieutenant-General Yasser al-Atta, a member of the military council that took power after the ouster of […]
Somalia has postponed national high school exams after discovering that papers were being sold and shared on social media. Any exams that have already been taken have been invalidated, Education Minister Abdullahi Godah Barre said during a broadcast on national TV. The cancellation has sparked student protests in the capital, Mogadishu. The exams will now […]
Government says 353 containers of protected hardwood that was illegally felled have disappeared from its custody. Gabon’s government has vowed to find and punish those responsible for the disappearance of more than 350 containers of protected hardwood worth nearly $250m. In late February and early March, the authorities uncovered and seized 392 containers with 5,000 […]
At least four Sudanese protesters and a member of the security forces have died in clashes in the capital, Khartoum. They were killed in gunfire at a sit-in outside military HQ where demonstrators are demanding full civilian government. Protesters said soldiers were responsible, but the army blamed it on “unidentified elements”. Sudan has been governed […]
In our series of letters from African journalists, Zeinab Mohammed Salih explains how Sudan’s protesters are managing to keep going during the Muslim fasting month. More than a month since Sudan’s long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was arrested by the military, crowds are still camped out – day and night – in front of the army […]
The accident took place in Tana River county when a passenger bus crashed into a truck on the side of the road. Ten people have died after a passenger bus crashed into a truck on the side of the road in southeast Kenya. The accident took place in Tana River county on Sunday night, a senior police […]
DAKER, Burkina Faso — Unidentified gunmen killed a pastor and five congregants at a Roman Catholic church in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the authorities said. Ousmane Zongo, mayor of Dablo, where the attacks took place, told Agence France-Presse that the gunmen had burst into the church at the beginning of Mass. “They started firing […]
Ghana’s chief imam is a man of few words, but the 100-year-old Muslim cleric certainly knows how to make waves – by attending a Catholic Church service as part of his birthday celebrations. Pictures of Sheikh Osman Sharubutu, sitting attentively in the pews of Accra’s Christ the King Catholic Church for an Easter service, went […]
Protesters say they want to meet with the military and sort out all contentious issues within 72 hours. Sudan’s military rulers have invited organisers of anti-government demonstrations to hold new talks on handing over power to a civilian administration, the protest movement said, after weeks of deadlock over the make-up of an interim governing body. […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan — When the first winds of a revolution blew across Sudan last winter, threatening to upend decades of corrupt and destructive rule, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir needed to find a scapegoat. He got Ayob Omer. Mr. Omer, a 28-year-old veterinary student from Darfur, was scooped up by intelligence thugs outside his university dorm […]