The Congolese government is naming a town after Patrice Lumumba, the country’s first prime minister whose assassination more than 50 years ago made him a liberation symbol worldwide. The new city in central Congo, named Lumumbaville, will be made of several existing communities in the Kassai-Oriental province and will... Read more
An Iranian and his Nigerian accomplice were sentenced to five years in prison Monday over a plot they orchestrated to smuggle a shipment of military-grade weapons including mortar rounds into West Africa. Both Azim Aghajani and his accomplice, Usman Abbas Jega, pleaded for leniency in the hearing, in which... Read more
After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria’s northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a bold comeback that has already allowed them to seize control over parts of the northeast. Using porous borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the desolate... Read more
Thousands of Gabonese people marched to protest ritual killings, in which people are murdered so their body parts can be used in amulets to bring good luck. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, Gabon’s first lady, led the event Saturday along with Christian and Muslim religious leaders. The president of the Association... Read more
The Seleka rebels who overthrew Central African Republic’s president are now demanding that they be paid before they disarm. Seleka Lt. Ali Alkanto said Saturday that his fighters should receive salaries before they lay down their arms. He said if the new government doesn’t pay the rebels there could... Read more
Tanzanian peace keepers arrive eastern Congo
Africa May 11, 2013
A contingent of about 100 Tanzanian troops arrived in eastern Congo Saturday, a first step in assembling the new United Nations intervention brigade, said a U.N. spokesman. The Tanzanian troops are the first batch to form the U.N. intervention brigade to be deployed in eastern Congo following a Security... Read more
The Gambian government says that it has released a Muslim cleric who had been in detention for five months. The state Gambia Radio Television Services announced late Friday that Imam Baba Leigh was released by the National Intelligence Agency. The outspoken Imam was taken away by plainclothes officers on... Read more
Known for bringing in celebrities and smiling in photographs next to former Western leaders, a flamboyant Nigerian newspaper publisher now faces a challenge from his most vocal critics — his own employees. Workers have barricaded the front of ThisDay newspapers in Lagos, hoping to force publisher Nduka Obaigbena into... Read more
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has identified the absence of non-functional prison services as one of the factors militating against the quick dispensation of justice in the Country. This is just as he tasked the Federal Government; Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on employment generation. Receiving the visiting... Read more
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has faulted the position of the critics on the inauguration of the Bayelsa Development and Investment Corporation, (BDIC), arguing that it was aimed at attracting investments to the state and as well make it the delight of local and foreign investors. The... Read more
