Rights panel says arrests raise fears that Abiy Ahmed’s government is returning to iron-fisted tactics of past regimes. Ethiopia has arrested more than 9,000 people after deadly clashes last month, the state-run human rights commission has told the Reuters news agency, raising fears that a government hailed for reforms is returning to the iron-fisted tactics […]
NAIROBI/PORT LOUIS • Mauritian volunteers fished dead eels from oily waters this week as they tried to clean up damage to the Indian Ocean island’s most pristine beaches after a Japanese bulk carrier leaked an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil. The ship, MV Wakashio, owned by Nagashiki Shipping and operated by Mitsui OSK Lines, struck […]
French military said it was providing air support for the operation, which is unfolding over a vast wooded area. French and Nigerien soldiers are searching through a giraffe reserve and the surrounding area in Niger for traces of the gunmen who killed six French aid workers. France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor also opened an investigation into the […]
Award-winning novelist was arrested while taking part in banned anti-corruption protests. Tsitsi Dangarembga, an award-winning Zimbabwean author and Booker Prize nominee, has been released on bail after her arrest during an anti-government protest. Eleven other people detained on Friday – including Fadzayi Mahere, a lawyer and spokeswoman for the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance […]
Parties angry over moves to appoint figure accused by opposition of helping former leader Kabila rig past elections. Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) made several dozen arrests as they broke up Wednesday’s protests in two cities over plans to name a new head to the country’s election panel, police and activists […]
Coulibaly’s death throws Ivory Coast into uncertainty as he is also the ruling RHDP’s presidential candidate. Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast’s prime minister and the governing party’s candidate for an October presidential election, died on Wednesday, just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France. The 61-year-old, who had heart surgery in […]
The skulls of 24 combatants laid to rest after being repatriated from France where they were kept in a Parisian museum. Algeria buried the remains of 24 resistance fighters returned from Paris after more than a century and a half as it marked the 58th anniversary of its independence from France. The skulls of the […]
Ruling ZANU-PF accuses Ambassador Brian Nichols of ‘funding disturbances, coordinating violence and training fighters’. Zimbabwe’s ruling African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has called the US ambassador to the country a “thug” and accused him of funding the opposition ahead of this week’s planned anti-government protests. Patrick Chinamasa, a spokesman for ZANU-PF, told reporters on Monday […]
Embassy head will temporarily be based in Tunisia, Interfax news agency cited Lavrov as saying ahead of Saleh meeting. Russia has decided to reopen its embassy in Libya although its head will temporarily be based in neighbouring Tunisia, Interfax news agency cited Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov as saying. Russia evacuated its diplomats from […]
Sixty-eight prisoners broke out on Friday during routine physical exercise at the facility north of Cape Town. All 68 prisoners that escaped from a jail near Cape Town have been recaptured following a large-scale manhunt, a spokesman for the South African justice ministry has said. The prisoners, who were awaiting trial, escaped around noon from […]