The speaker of Senegal’s parliament said Sunday he was resigning, two days after his close ally was fired as prime minister, deepening a political crisis in the debt-laden West African country.
Uganda confirmed on Monday two new cases of Ebola, bringing the total to seven since the virus outbreak was discovered in the East African country on May 15.
A dramatic security breach involving Kenyan President Dr. William Ruto in Kilifi has triggered sweeping changes within Kenya’s most elite police units, shaking up the command structure of officers tasked with protecting the Head of State.
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, 74, will run for re-election in January, with the leader of Africa’s most populous nation named as his party’s candidate on Sunday.
Tents used to isolate Ebola patients at Rwampara hospital, in the northeastern Ituri province at the outbreak’s epicentre, were torched in the riot on Thursday, which ended swiftly after the army stepped in. Only the tents’ charred husks remain.
Suspected jihadists have executed a Quranic teacher for allegedly not practising “the right Islam”
Chawki Tabib, who is also a prominent lawyer and the former head of the Tunisian bar association, was arrested last April.
Protesters have been whipped into action by a loose coalition of political parties and citizen-led xenophobic vigilante movements, some fronted by men in traditional Zulu dress.
Uganda on Thursday suspended all public transport to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a deadly Ebola outbreak was spreading.
The US has sanctioned Tanzanian Police Force (TPF) Senior Assistant Commissioner Faustine Jackson Mafwele over allegations linked to the “torture and sexual assault” of East African rights activists Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire.
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