•Ghanaian evacuees Yesterday, June 7, 2026 the third batch of Ghanaian nationals evacuated from the Republic of South Africa due to xenophobic attacks arrived in Ghana and were met by the Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Administration, Honourable Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Honourable James Gyakye Quayson (MP)...
One of Africa’s leading research networks, Afrobarometer, has stated that Africans continue to rely on both formal and informal justice systems to resolve legal disputes, while many question whether the courts deliver fair, affordable, and timely justice. The group highlighted this in a new report, based on 50,961 interviews conducted across 3...
•Nigerian returnees Screening of Nigerians who desire to leave South Africa following xenophobic attacks has commenced. This comes a month after the Nigerian Government announced the special repatriation plan, reports The Guardian. A public notice issued by the Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria notes that the exercise will run until Sunday ...
•Sahara Desert Forty-nine people died of thirst in an isolated Sahara desert district in Niger after the truck transporting them broke down, authorities said yesterday. The dead were among a group returning from Mali for a Muslim festival when they ran short of water, the Agadez governorate said in a post on Facebook. The 49 […]
•Violence targeting foreign nationals in South Africa  South African police warned anti-immigration groups yesterday against taking the law into their own hands after two Mozambicans were killed in the first deaths linked to protests against illegal migrants. The Mozambicans died in the southern coastal town of Mossel Bay after a small demons...
•President of Kenya, William Ruto Kenya’s president today defended the opening of an Ebola quarantine centre for US nationals after a court halted the plan and security forces teargassed protesters fearing the deadly virus could spread in the country. The US-built facility at Kenya’s Laikipia Air Base was due to open last week according to [&h...
•Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation, WHO, today dramatically scaled back the number of suspected Ebola cases in central Africa to 116, down from more than 900 previously, with 330 cases now confirmed. As of May 31, the World Health Organisation said 116 suspected cases of the deadly virus had been registered in the Democratic [&helli...
•Ebola outbreak The main airport in Ituri, the DR Congo province at the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak, reopened today after a 10-day closure for safety reasons, the government said. The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a major epidemic of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever that is suspected to have killed at least 246 […]...
•President Faye of Senegal Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye yesterday announced a new government, excluding the party led by his former ally Ousmane Sonko, whom he sacked as prime minister over political disputes. Faye’s announcement came in a live television broadcast less than two weeks after he fired Sonko, his former mentor, and d...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has deployed a technical election observation mission to Guinea ahead of the country’s legislative and local elections scheduled for today, Sunday, May 31, 2026. According to the regional bloc, the mission will be in Guinea from May 24 to June 4, 2026, to monitor the electoral process [&he...
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