As Rwanda prepares to commemorate 30 years after the genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, a transitional justice expert described the period between April to June 1994 as a dark time for the country. Martin Mavenjina, a senior program advisor on transitional justice at the Kenya Human Rights Commission empha...

 French President Emmanuel Macron has made a significant admission regarding France's involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, stating that France and its allies "could have stopped" the genocide but "lacked the will to do so." Macron's statement comes as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide. In a video to be released on so...

 The 8-year-old lone survivor of a bus crash that killed at least 45 people in South Africa before Easter weekend will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday (Apr. 03), health officials said. Atlang Siako is expected to travel to her home in neighboring Botswana, from where the bus was traveling on March 28 on its way to an annual Easter...

 Senegal inaugurated Africa's youngest elected leader as president on Tuesday, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison to palace within weeks. Last month's election tested Senegal's reputation as a stable democracy in West Africa, a region rocked in recent years by coups and ...

 Rwanda's president Paul Kagame has been endorsed as candidate by two of the oldest and political parties in the east African nation. Liberal Party (PL), and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), endorsed the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) candidate Paul Kagame in the July presidential race on Sunday, joining four smaller political parties, which a...

 Somalia made significant changes to its constitution on Saturday, granting the president the authority to appoint and dismiss the prime minister. This decision, approved by a substantial majority of parliament, follows intense debates within the federal assembly in Mogadishu. The amendments, proposed by the Independent Constitutional Review a...

Investigators are scouring the site of a tragic bus accident in South Africa, where a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering veered off a bridge, resulting in at least 45 fatalities. The only survivor, an 8-year-old child, was found amidst the wreckage. The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon in a mountainous area near Mokopane, approxima...

 On Wednesday (Mar. 27), a French court handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity. The crimes were found to have happened between 1993 and 1994 during the First Liberian Civil War in Lofa county, in north-western Liberia. During the pro...

 South Sudan's government on Tuesday (Mar. 26) said schools will reopen from April 2nd following a two-week closure due to extreme heat across the country. The health and education ministries said temperatures were expected to steadily drop with the rainy season set to begin in the coming days. During the heat wave last week, the country regis...

 A Nafar, also known as a town crier, is a seasonal profession that emerges annually during Ramadan.The Nafar works for one month and stops their work once Eid al-Fitr is declared. The Nafar is a man who walks the paths and alleys in the early hours of the morning, starting at three am. The Nafar plays a certain tune with a long trumpet-like i...

 An explosion at a small hotel near a police station in north-eastern Kenya killed four people on Monday (Mar. 25). The blast took place in the town of Mandera, which is on the border with Somalia. The town's police chief Samwel Mutunga said that two of those wounded were in critical condition and would be flown to the capital, other were admi...

 Nollywood comic actor Amaechi Muonagor has passed away at the age of 62, a family member confirmed this to local media. Reports indicate that he succumbed to kidney failure on Sunday while undergoing dialysis, as disclosed by local media. Confirming his demise the actor's cousin Tony Muonagor, also recognized as Tony Oneweek, shared the sorro...

 Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests. At least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from Nigerian schools since 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped h...

 The Speaker of South Africa's parliament on Friday sought to stop police from arresting her on corruption charges. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula filed an application in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria seeking an order against her detention by law enforcement, local media reported on Friday. She argues that her arrest would hurt the integrity of ...

Doctors at Kenya's public hospitals have entered the seventh day of a nationwide strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said they wen...

 At Dandora dumpsite, waste stretches in all directions. This is where much of the garbage collected in Nairobi ends up. But one man's trash is another man's treasure. This place is a way for many people to earn a living. Every morning, they flock to the dumpsite to sift through the garbage for anything worth selling. Some collect plastics whi...

 India will prosecute 35 Somali pirates arrested during an operation to free a hijacked vessel off Somalia on Saturday, a navy official said. The men are due to arrive in India on Saturday where they will be handed over to law enforcement. India was previously only concentrating on freeing hijacked vessels and abandoning the disarmed pirates a...

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 Alexis Preller's self-portrait is the first painting visitors see as they enter this exhibition. The South African artist's masterpiece is one of almost 100 artworks on show at Sotheby's auction house in London. It will be part of a sale of modern and contemporary African art taking place later this month. But before the works go under the ha...

 The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a U.K. Supreme Court block on deportation flights returns to the House of Commons on Monday and could be passed into law within days. That would be a boost for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, w...