Politics

Former South African president Jacob Zuma is facing possible jail time for refusing to give evidence to an anti-corruption commission. The investigation into Jacob Zuma’s alleged corruption took an unexpected turn in February, after the former South African president and African National Congres...

As a former child soldier is convicted of war crimes for his role in Uganda’s brutal conflict, Zachary Ochieng asks whether The Hague is a roadblock to peace in Africa.  The conviction of former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen by the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

The country’s Nigeria-born anti-corruption head has been forced to quit after allegedly faking his own ID. By Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Monrovia. Liberia’s strict immigration laws have come under scrutiny, after the head of the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission was forced to quit after allege...

As communities turn to militias for protection from rampaging herdsmen, Rosemary Udoh reports on the conflict tearing Nigeria apart – and asks what really lit the country ablaze. Sunday April 16, 2019, will forever be remembered by the people of Numa in Nigeria’s Nasarawa state. It was supp...

The civil war in Tigray province is fast spreading across East Africa. The Horn of Africa stands on the brink as the conflict in Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region continues to escalate. The war between the Ethiopian state and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which governs the ...

With poaching on the rise thanks to the pandemic, Tanzania has alarmed conservationists further by legalising bushmeat markets, writes Zachary Ochieng. The Tanzanian government has decriminalised bushmeat markets as part of an unusual strategy to control poaching in the East African safari ...

The latest Africa news, including Mauritius's feud with the UK, Guinea's election fallout and the Hague trial of an ex-CAR rebel leader. Mauritius Britain was dealt another defeat in its ongoing dispute with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands last month, after a UN court ruled that it has no s...

Mass arrests, killings and an internet blackout overshadowed Uganda’s presidential poll. But, as Zachary Ochieng reports, the opposition hasn’t given up the fight yet. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni won a historic sixth term in office in January’s controversial elections, garnering ...