Category: Africa

Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on naval forces in Africa to tackle pirates troubling waterways around the continent… He said this malaise poses a threat to the socio-economic development of the continent, calling on government within the country to consider giving priority attention to equipping the navies of their various countries. He spoke during the […]

Zimbabwean student leaders are being denied food in police cells, further proving President Mugabe’s administration is not prepared to stop violating human rights there… Zimbabwe is viewed by Western governments such as Britain and the United States as a country that has a base level human rights record. In Britain, premier Tony Blair recently told […]

South Africa's national labour body is heaping pressure on its government to request the resignation of neighbouring Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is positioning itself to aggressively push SA President Thabo Mbeki to force Zimbabwe's Mugabe to call for an interim government as a precursor for the ushering in of a new political dispensation. The move by […]

A former Kenyan anti-corruption czar responsible for distributing a tape that implicates his government in corruption is facing allegations he was a spy for Britain.   Mr John Githongo, formerly the Ethics and Governance Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Office of the President here in Kenya, released on Wednesday a tape recording in Britain where […]

Kenya is set to be the fourth African country to lose military aid from the United States following its refusal to sign an Immunity Agreement… The Immunity Agreement exempts US nationals and soldiers from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Tanzania, South Africa and Namibia have also refused to sign the agreement and […]

Murder charges against a British aristocrat and prominent Kenyan farmer have been dropped by prosecutors, sparking public outrage… Thomas Cholmondeley, son of the former British colonial farmer Baron Delamere, was charged with the murder of an undercover warden in April. Cholmondeley, 37, denied the charges and said he acted in self-defence, believing the dead Maasai […]

The mayor of Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, has been jailed for three years for theft from the State and corruption… John Chikakwiya, of the ruling United Democratic Front party, was jailed on 18 April by a magistrate court in Blantyre, for stealing a donation of $4,000 given by a state firm to maintain city roads. […]

Noble prize winner Laureate Wangari Maathai has been awarded a honorary degree during the 32nd graduation ceremony of Kenya’s University of Nairobi… The crowd, including 4,025 graduating students, broke into cheers as the environment assistant minister was honoured with a Doctor of Science degree by the varsity’s Chancellor Dr Joe Wanjui. Maathai, an environmentalist and […]