Category: African News 3

Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in on Friday as Tanzania’s first female president. This is after the sudden death of late President John Magufuli from an illness unknown to the public. The 61-year-old, dressed in a black suit and red headscarf, took the oath of office in Dar es Salaam before inspecting troops at […]

Tanzanian President, John Magufuli, is dead. The leader popularly known as the ‘Bulldozer’ passed on Wednesday, March 17th. At the time of Magufuli’s death, he was 61. He was quite controversial for his denial of the coronavirus pandemic. His death comes only five months after he won a second term in a disputed election. He […]

Kenya’s High Court has voted in favour of the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) on Tuesday. This is after a petition was filed by a female doctor to legalise it. In Kenya, four million girls and women have undergone FGM, the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. […]

Children as young as 11 are being beheaded by Islamist (Isis-linked) militants in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado. This is according to the new report from the aid agency, Save the Children. The armed groups, locally known as al-Shabab (“young people” in Arabic), have been perpetrating terror for more than three years in the […]

An attempt to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys in northwestern Nigeria has been prevented by security agents, according to a statement issued by a state official on Sunday. This comes days after dozens of students were kidnapped in the latest mass abduction. The kidnapping of 39 students on Thursday was the most recent in a series […]

Following the government’s ratification of a draft law, it is only a matter of time before Morocco fully legalises the medical use of Cannabis. However, the government on Thursday maintained that a ban be put on its recreational use. Moreover, the draft law for medical use still needs approval from the parliament. The move would […]

One of Senegal’s biggest music stars over the last four decades, Thione Seck has been confirmed dead by his lawyer. The veteran singer died at the age of 66 in Dakar on Sunday. “He died this morning of an illness at the Fann hospital,” lawyer Ousmane Seye told AFP, thus confirming the reports in the […]

About 30 students have been abducted overnight by gunmen from a forestry college near a military academy in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria. This is the fourth mass school abduction since December. Kaduna State’s Security Commissioner, Samuel Aruwan has confirmed that the students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, in Kaduna. He, however, […]

The Ugandan opposition leader, Bobi Wine has on Tuesday called on all Ugandans to “rise up peacefully and unarmed” in protest against President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the East African country for nearly four decades. Museveni won a sixth term in office in January with 58 per cent of the vote. His main rival […]

According to the statement issued by the Ministry of Health in Morocco, more than four million people have been vaccinated since the beginning of the COVID-19 immunisation campaign in January. In order to strengthen the country’s protection against variants of the novel coronavirus, all flights with Poland, Norway, Finland, Greece, Lebanon, and Kuwait have been […]