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Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died, according to reports. He was 95. According to ZimLive, the news was confirmed by two sources. He reportedly died in a hospital in Singapore on Friday morning. According to The Mirror, Human Rights Watch Southern African director Dewa Mavhinga revealed that credible family sources s...

By Joburg Post 6 months ago

Nigeria: Govt Outlines Strategy to Lift 100 Million Out of Poverty

The Minister of Science and Technology Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday said the Federal Government would deploy science, technology and innovation to actualize President Muhammadu Buhari's promise of freeing 100 million Nigerians from the poverty trap. Dr Onu spoke while addressing Supervising Directors, Heads of Agencies and staff of the ...

By Emmanuel Elebeke 6 months ago

What It Would Take To Break The Impasse In Cameroon’s Deadly Crisis

Felix Agbor Balla Nkongho is a leading Cameroonian lawyer and award-winning human rights advocate. Nkongho was detained for nine months for taking part in protests against the marginalisation of the legal and education systems in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. The Francophone government responded with deadly violence marked ...

By Cheryl Hendricks & Gabriel Ngah Kiven 6 months ago

Repression and Dialogue In Zimbabwe: Twin Strategies That Aren’t Working

Since the November 2017 coup that toppled Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and the elections in 2018, the regime of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has forged two forms of rule. These have been based on coercion on the one hand, and on the other dialogue.

By Brian Raftopoulos 6 months ago

What patents and publications reveal about China-Africa science collaboration

China has enjoyed a close economic relationship with a number of African countries for many decades. It has been particularly involved in supporting African countries’ infrastructure projects. As far back as the 1960s it helped build the Tanzania Zambia Railway. More recently, it’s invested in railway structures in Ethiopia, Kenya and ...

By Swapan Kumar Patra & Mammo Muchie 6 months ago

How Two Islamic Groups Fell From Power To Persecution: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey’s Gulenists

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever democratically elected president, died unexpectedly during a trial in June 2019. He was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, an almost century-old Islamist group that rose to power after the Egyptian Rev...

By Ahmet T. Kuru 6 months ago

The AU’s Role In Brokering Sudan Deal Offers Lessons For The Future

The African Union (AU) came into existence after a restructuring of its predecessor – the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It was created to build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful continent. While the AU has a clear mandate to ...

By Femi Amao 6 months ago

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How Government Bias Can Fuel Communal Conflicts in Africa

Each year, violent communal conflict between groups is witnessed in a number of African countries. It is often organised along identity lines. The fights are typically over local territory, natural resources or political power. Although ...

Emma Elfversson·6 months ago

Essebsi Is Gone: Tunisia’s Young Democracy Faces Its Toughest Test

Tunisia has been popularly hailed as the only successful political transition to emerge from the wider Arab Spring movement. The culmination of this transition was the election of Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi in 2014. Essebsi’s victory woul...

Jonathan Powell & Clayton Besaw·7 months ago

Why Buhari’s Long-Awaited Cabinet Leaves a Lot to be Desired

It took President Muhammadu Buhari 54 days after his second term began to send a list of ministerial nominees to the Nigerian Senate for screening. This is a better record than his first term, which began in May 2015. Then Nigerians had ...

Ini Dele-Adedeji·7 months ago

Ethiopia 2020 National Elections On Track

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition said on Friday it will hold a national election next year, defying worries over security and displacement in the Horn of Africa country that had led some to speculate the election might be postponed. The execu...

Joburg Post·7 months ago

Why Sidama Statehood Demand Threatens to Unravel Ethiopia’s Federal System

Ethiopia’s ethnic federal arrangement was designed to empower ethnic groups with the right to self administration rights. But it’s facing a major test. The current challenge comes from the Sidama ethnic group from a region commonly known...

Yohannes Gedamu·7 months ago

Egypt Must End Rights Abuses of Political Prisoners: Amnesty

Amnesty International has called on Egyptian authorities "to immediately end cruel and inhumane conditions" of political detainees, who have been on hunger strike at a notorious maximum-security prison outside Cairo. In a statement publi...

Ali Younes·7 months ago

Tshisekedi has taken over the DRC’s Ebola response. How he can make a difference

JBThe most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rages on. There’s been a continued increase in the number of new cases for a year since the outbreak was first declared. This is despite the extensive use of ...

Mosoka Fallah·7 months ago

Egyptian Security Forces Kill 17 Islamic Militants After Blast at Cancer Centre

Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car filled with explosives wrecked outside the county's main cancer hospital, killing at l...

Joburg Post·7 months ago

Henry Odera Oruka’s Africa Sagacity: Are There Any Left?

Philosophy is a relatively interesting topic, more so when localised to the African continent. Philosophy, as a concept, has two rather general definitions, the first is ‘the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and exi...

Neo Sithole·7 months ago

Will Kenya’s First Anti-Colonial Leaders Ever Rest In Peace?

In African Culture(s), a dignified burial of the departed is an important feature that is thought to secure safe passage to the realm of the living-dead, the ancestors. This is further amplified if the deceased was a chief or a community...

Katlego Mereko·7 months ago

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