African politics

Issued on: 23/10/2022 - 11:24 Guinea's ruling junta has agreed to restore civilian rule in two years, after facing sanctions over its original plan for a three-year transfer…

Issued on: 27/09/2022 - 21:38 Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and several co-defendants were sent to prison Tuesday, a day before their trial opens for the 2009…

Issued on: 23/08/2022 - 10:09 A sea of red-and-green-clad supporters rallied in a densely populated and impoverished district of Angola's capital Luanda Monday to show…

Issued on: 20/08/2022 - 09:42 Crucial national talks on the future of Chad that the ruling junta says will pave the way for elections begin on Saturday but the forum has been…

Issued on: 10/06/2022 - 20:42 After being definitively acquitted of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court last year, Charles Blé Goudé, the former…

Issued on: 08/04/2022 - 19:23 Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo visited Duekoue in the west of the country on Friday, the notorious site of the massacre where more than…

Issued on: 22/03/2022 - 11:59 Mali's former prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, arrested over corruption allegations last year, died of an undisclosed illness in hospital…

Issued on: 24/11/2021 - 20:24Modified: 24/11/2021 - 20:27 Libya's election commission said on Wednesday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler and a major candidate…

The murder trial of Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s iconic “father of the revolution”, is due to open on Monday, 34 years after his assassination. Fourteen people, including the country’s ex-president, Blaise Compaoré,…

Issued on: 08/10/2021 - 16:26 Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, becoming the latest African state to ban capital…