Rabat’s New Direction
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named businessman Aziz Akhannouch to lead a new government after his liberal RNI party thrashed the long-ruling Islamists in parliamentary elections. The RNI won 102 of parliament’s 395 seats, trouncing the moderate PJD Islamists, which had headed the governing coalition for a decade but took just 13 seats, according to […]
More than 200 Prisoners Overwhelm Guards and Escape
At least 240 prisoners have escaped in a prison break in Nigeria’s north-central Kogi State after gunmen carried out a blitz attack on the facility. Gunmen in large numbers attacked from all angles and didn’t give the correctional service any opportunity of responding,” said Ede Ayuba Ekpeji, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police for the region. […]
Inside the Shadowy World of Disinformation for Hire in Kenya
Written by non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the report shows how shadowy financers have deployed an army of Twitter influencers to co-ordinate disinformation campaigns in favour of a government-backed constitution amendment bill, known as the Building Bridges Initiative. According to the research conducted between May and June 2021, they were paid to directly harass and discredit journalists, […]
US Green Berets Trained the Guinean Colonel behind the Recent Coup
U.S forces were caught off guard when a Guinean colonel they trained turned out to be the mastermind behind the country’s recent coup and is now the leader of the West African nation. Col. Mamady Doumbouya has declared himself the new leader of Guinea after he led special forces into the presidential palace and deposed […]
States in East and South Africa Join Vaccine Trials on Children
South Africa has started vaccinating children and adolescents as part of the global phase three clinical trials of China’s Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine for people aged between six months and 17 years old. The global study will enroll 2,000 participants in South Africa and 12,000 others will be taking part in Kenya, the Philippines, Chile […]
