Uganda is moving toward presidential elections in early 2021, with candidate nominations expected in September – a contentious process as President Yoweri Museveni, now approaching his 76th birthday and in power since 1986, is expected to seek another term. Opposition leaders in Uganda have long been targets of the ruling…
Malaria hits hard on the African continent, home to 93 percent of the world’s 228 million cases in 2018 and 94 percent of its fatalities. What scientists at the universities of Leeds and Lincoln in the UK want to know is how Africans might be affected in the climate change…
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Friday that recent death threats targeting Dr. Denis Mukwege, a human rights defender and 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Democratic Republic of Congo, are causing concern for his safety and must be taken seriously. Mukwege, founder of the Panzi…
Akinwumi A. Adesina has been re-elected to another five-year term as president of the African…
In Zimbabwe, friends and supporters of political activist Patson Dzamara are mourning the news that…
Africans celebrated the end of wild poliovirus on the continent on Tuesday, making good on…
Although Khalifa Haftar and his eastern Libyan forces have rejected the call for a ceasefire…
Opposition leader Martin Fayulu made his return to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday,…
