(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Opposition leader Bobi Wine said heavily armed security forces were besieging his party headquarters on Monday and had arrested several leaders, on the eve of a planned anti-corruption march that has been banned by the authorities. The action comes two days after President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country with an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, says the re-election of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda is a testament of the trust and confidence reposed in him. Obasanjo stated this in a congratulatory message issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, to newsmen on Friday. In the letter, the former Nigerian leader […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu will on Saturday, depart Abuja for Accra, Ghana to participate in the Sixth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union (AU), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member States. In his capacity as the Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A victim of online shopping scam has called on the security agencies and Nigerians to help her recover her funds from a fake and fraudulent hair products vendor named Amy_luxury_hair who advertised a very attractive promo on facebook to defraud unsuspecting victims. The victim, who preferred to be anonymous, due to security […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Ghanaian chef, Ebenezer Smith, better known as Millennium Chef Smith, who was recently exposed for forging a Guinness World Record in a cooking marathon, has stated that he does not deserve to be alive because of his disgraceful actions. Smith stated this in a recent interview with GHOne TV on Sunday. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Saturday implored young people not to attempt the perilous Atlantic route to Europe, days after scores of would-be migrants perished when their boat capsized off Mauritania. Nearly 90 migrants bound for Europe died after their boat overturned earlier this week, with dozens reported missing in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been working towards establishing a single currency, known as the ECO, to facilitate economic integration and improve trade among member states. The endorsement by Nigeria, the region’s largest economy, is a significant step towards the actualization of this long-anticipated monetary union. The introduction […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Omar Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commision, says Mali, B/Faso and Niger, three Sahel member states under military rule, are not giving signs of intention to return to the subregional bloc. Touray, who made this known at the 92nd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers on Thursday in Abuja, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Wednesday swore in a new government that comprises new defence and foreign ministers amid regional turmoil and domestic economic woes. Egypt, with an estimated 9 million refugees and migrants, has been hard hit by the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in the neighbouring […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Mauritanian authorities cut access to mobile internet services early on Tuesday after protests against the presidential election results took place the previous evening in several cities. Protesters took to the streets on Monday evening in the capital Nouakchott as well as the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Zouérat in the north and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election, receiving 56.12 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said Monday. The victory gives the former army chief a second term as head of the vast desert country, seen […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hundreds of people marched in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Sunday, to honour those who died in anti-government demonstrations this week, as President William Ruto insisted that “I have no blood on my hands.” Rights groups say at least 30 people died in protests driven by a government drive to substantially raise taxes […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- Mauritanians head to the polls on Saturday in a presidential election that sees incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani taking on six challengers in the West African desert nation that will soon become a gas producer. Ghazouani, 67, a former top soldier, has promised to accelerate investments to spur a commodities boom in the country […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is a realistic chance of famine in 14 areas across Sudan if the war that began in April last year escalates, a global monitor said on Thursday, in a sharply worsening hunger crisis that the World Food Programme called the world’s largest. The areas are located in the capital Khartoum, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday ended their closed door meeting with an agreement that all contentious issues will be amicably resolved to avert strike. The parties also agreed to kick-start a communication process to avert the planned industrial actions by the union. The News […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday that a bill containing contentious tax hikes would “be withdrawn”, dramatically reversing course after more than 20 people died and parliament was ransacked by protesters opposed to the legislation. But he warned that the withdrawal of the finance bill would mean a significant shortfall in funding […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One person was killed and 37 others injured in a stampede at a political rally on Sunday in western Rwanda, the government has said. The stampede occurred when people tried to exit from a venue where President Paul Kagame, the Candidate for the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front, addressed supporters in Gisa, Rubavu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 24-year-old protester was shot dead during demonstrations against the taxation bill currently moving in Kenya. The man had taken part in a protest in the capital Nairobi on Thursday evening, as thousands took to the streets across the country. The protest was due to a parliamentary debate and vote on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- No fewer than 30 people were killed late Wednesday in an overnight attack blamed on Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels. The deaths occurred due to the recently launched series of deadly incursions into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a military spokesman confirmed on Thursday. ADF rebels launched an attack in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima and nine others on board a military aircraft have been confirmed dead, President Lazarus Chakwera said Tuesday. “I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you all that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy. The search and rescue team found the aircraft near […]
