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A court in France has found French-Cameroonian author Charles Onana guilty of downplaying the Rwandan genocide. The 60-year-old writer was fined €8,400 ($8,900; £7,000) and Damien Serieyx, his publishing director from Éditions du Toucan, was ordered to pay €5,000. They are also required to pay €11,000 in compensation to human rights organisations that that filed […]
Ghana’s opposition candidate and former President John Mahama has promised “a new beginning, a new direction” for the country after being officially declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election. Mahama won with 56.6% against 41.6% for Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia. It is the biggest margin of victory in the country for 24 years. Voter turnout was […]
Kenya is committed to co-hosting the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) next year despite concerns about its preparedness for the competition, which begins on 1 February. The country is due to provide two venues, Nyayo National Stadium and Kasarani Stadium, for what is scheduled to be a 19-team tournament co-hosted by East African neighbours Tanzania […]
Zambia’s top court has barred former President Edgar Lungu from standing for re-election in 2026. The Constitutional Court ruled that the 68-year-old politician had already served the maximum two terms allowed by law. Lungu was first elected president in January 2015 to serve the remaining 20 months of his predecessor’s term. President Michael Sata had […]
Sudan’s military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed. The Emergency Lawyers rights group described the bombing in Kabkabiya town on Monday, the weekly market day, as a “horrific massacre”. Clashes have intensified in different […]
Ghana’s former President John Mahama will be under enormous pressure to meet the expectations of voters following his landslide victory in Saturday’s election. He swept back to power after eight years in opposition, running what political analyst Nansata Yakubu described as a “masterclass” in campaigning. He defeated Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia by 56.6% of votes to […]
An estimated 350,000 African artefacts, from human remains and photographs to natural history specimens and manuscripts, have been found in a university’s collections. Dr Eva Namusoke spent 15 months liaising with University of Cambridge librarians, curators and archivists, as well as delving into their stores, to uncover the items. It “is fairly common” for large […]
Nigeria, which has more malaria deaths than any other country in the world, has begun rolling out a vaccine against the disease for the first time. The West African nation accounts for almost a third of those who die from malaria each year. The vaccine being introduced – called R21/Matrix-M – is the second to […]
An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms with the killing of his seven-year-old daughter in drone strikes by Nigeria’s military during a religious festival in their large but sparsely populated village exactly a year ago. The military said the bombing was caused by “a failure of intelligence”, leading the army […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote on social media […]