Pan Africa Politics

Nigeria’s main opposition said Thursday it will present new evidence to support its court challenge seeking to overturn this year’s presidential election, saying it can show the declared winner provided faked academic credentials to authorities. President Bola Tinubu forged a diploma from an American university that he presented to Nigeria’s election commission before the February vote and should be removed ...

The head of the Arab League held talks on Tuesday with a representative of Sudanese military leader General Abdel Fattah Burhan at the organization’s headquarters in Cairo. Speaking after the meeting, Dafa’alla Al-Haj Ali said that the crisis in his homeland was an “internal matter” and warned against any external interference. “I am talking to you now, and there are contacts regarding the completion of this truce, but we ...

Taking advantage of relative calm, many residents in Khartoum and the neighbouring city of Omdurman emerged from their homes to seek food and water, lining up at bakeries or grocery stores, after days of being trapped inside by the fighting between the army and a rival paramilitary group. Some inspected shops or homes that had been destroyed or looted. People ...

G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday urged warring forces in Sudan to “end hostilities immediately” and return to negotiations, after clashes that have killed almost 200 people. A weeks-long power struggle exploded into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission is cautioning of an influx of terrorists from Burkina Faso if governments in the sub-region of Africa do not show political will in tackling cross-border terrorism. Speaking exclusively to TV3’s Komla Klutse in Abuja Nigeria, Commissioner for Political, Peace and Security, Abdel Fatau-Musah said although governments are putting in place measures to fight ...

Two of the country’s largest unions are leading the strike, calling for a “total shutdown” of the economy in protest against high unemployment levels, and rising fuel and electricity costs. Thousands of people across South Africa are taking part in a national strike in protest of the rising cost of living. Two of the country’s largest unions are leading the ...

Burkina Faso and Guinea, where the military has seized power by force, have asked their West African neighbours for more time to come up with a timetable for the transition. This comes after the expiration of the Monday 25th April ultimatum, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Wednesday. “Burkina Faso wished to have more time than ...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have called for increased cooperation to bring peace to conflict-ridden regions in Africa. This was at the start of Kenyatta’s two-day state visit to South Africa. In a meeting in Pretoria on Tuesday (November 23), the two leaders discussed the “grave situation in Ethiopia” and agreed that there is an ...

Libya’s electoral commission has said that 98 candidates, including two women, have registered to run in a presidential election scheduled for December. “The candidate registration platform has received the papers of 98 candidates who met the conditions,” the head of the electoral commission, Imad al-Sayeh, told a Tripoli press conference. Among the most notable hopefuls are Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the ...

When Nigeria’s then-head of state Sani Abacha stole billions of dollars and died before spending his loot, it prompted an international treasure hunt spread over decades. The man hired to get the money back tells the BBC’s Clare Spencer how the search took over his life. In September 1999, Swiss lawyer Enrico Monfrini answered a phone call that would change ...