Issa Ahmed BBC News Somali The outgoing Somali president has for the first time publicly spoken about the presence of Somali troops in Eritrea. While handing over office to the incoming president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo said he had officially given the files concerning the recruits to his successor President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Early last year […]
Vera Kwakofi BBC News, Accra Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has launched “Wajsic” – the Whistleblowers and Journalists’ Safety International Centre. It’s a self-funded organisation designed to provide protection, safe houses, legal services and advocacy for journalists and whistleblowers in Africa. Anas himself is not new to the danger and death threats that come […]
By Anne Soy Senior Africa correspondent With the pink paint on its walls fading, the Rouge by Desir hotel is about a 10-minute drive from the centre of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. The six-storey hotel has 72 rooms with views of the hilly city. It is set in a residential area with a mix of stand-alone […]
US officials say President Biden has approved the redeployment of US troops in Somalia, reversing a decision by his predecessor Donald Trump. The deployment was requested by the Pentagon to support the fight against militant group al-Shabab. President Trump withdrew about 700 US troops from Somalia in 2020. The move to re-establish a military presence […]
Dozens of people were killed after armed men raided a gold mine in Djugu in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province on Sunday. The AFP news agency quotes a local official as saying that 29 bodies had been retrieved from the artisanal mine. Among the dead was a four-month-old baby, it said. In […]
By Emmanuel Igunza BBC News, Nairobi A Muslim cleric in Kenya has asked a court not to free him from jail despite being acquitted of terrorism charges. Guyo Gorsa Buru said he feared he could be abducted and killed by state agents once released as is alleged has happened to other terror suspects. He was […]
By Joice Etutu BBC News, Nairobi Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it has carried out what may prove to be one of its most deadly attacks on the African Union mission in Somalia, however the two sides provide very different death tolls. The al-Qaeda affiliate says it killed 170 AU soldiers, mostly from Burundi, and […]
Russian mercenaries have been accused of summarily executing, torturing and beating civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR). Witnesses told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that in one incident last July, Russian-speaking fighters shot dead at least 12 unarmed men at a roadblock. Most victims were put in a shallow hole by the road near Bossangoa, […]
The Central African Republic (CAR) has approved Bitcoin as legal tender – just the second country to do so. CAR is one of the world’s poorest countries, but is rich in diamonds, gold and uranium. It has been wracked by conflict for decades and is a close Russian ally, with mercenaries from the […]
By Ishaq Khalid BBC News, Abuja Nigeria’s president has said the country is in “shock and trauma” following the deaths of at least 100 people from an explosion at an illegal oil refinery. President Muhammadu Buhari described the incident in Imo state, southern Nigeria, as a “catastrophe and a national disaster”. Many victims […]
