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Sierra Leone’s opposition candidate, Julius Maada Bio, has rushed to take his presidential oath in a hotel after winning the run-off election. Mr Maada Bio is a former military ruler who briefly ruled the country in 1996. He narrowly beat ruling party candidate Samura Kamara, who has alleged irregularities and says he will challenge the outcome in court. Mr Maada ...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be imprisoned while he appeals his corruption conviction, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. He is facing 12 years in jail on charges of accepting a bribe but had asked to remain free during his appeal. Lula claims the charges are politically motivated, and designed to prevent him from running for ...

Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi held Italian citizenship from October 2000 until January 2017, the Italian town where he was a resident said on Wednesday, jeopardising his hopes of contesting a presidential election later this year. Democratic Republic of Congo’s attorney general said last week he had opened an investigation into allegations about Katumbi’s Italian nationality, first reported by Paris-based ...

President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly reached out to the head of the Catholic church in Uganda over reports that the latter is behind a plot to overthrow the government. State House said the president and the Archbishop of Kampala Catholic Archdiocese, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, spoke over the phone on Monday and agreed on a way forward. The discussion followed the ...

A half century after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s death, celebrities have been remembering him and reflecting on how much progress has been made in racial equality in the decades since his assassination. “The fact that I’m walking this carpet starring in a movie, that’s the impact he had on my life,” said Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson. “There has ...

A Libyan appeals court cleared one of the sons of late leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday of charges of murdering a footballer before Libya’s 2011 uprising, the justice ministry said. Saadi Gaddafi, who has been held in the capital Tripoli since his extradition from Niger in 2014, was found not guilty of “murder, deception, threats, enslavement and defamation of the ...

Fatima, the daughter of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, got married to Jamil Abubakar, the pilot son of a former Inspector General of Police. The luxurious wedding held at the Eko Hotel in Lagos was attended by top dignitaries including Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo and American billionaire Bill Gates, among others. The marriage life of Fatima and Jamil has just ...

Protesters have blockaded the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay on the Gold Coast. Organisers were forced to drop one leg of the relay with the route looping for a short period. Wearing shirts and holding signs declaring “No Justice, No Games”, the group is protesting the colonisation of Australia. It says the royal family – represented by Charles and Camilla, ...

The journey to the Total Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Ghana 2018 starts today(Wednesday) with the First Round matches of the qualifiers. Twenty (20) teams will be involved in action during the international break from 2-10 April for places at the ultimate round. The next eight days will witness the first and second leg matches of the First Round. One ...

The Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports has announced his country’s official support for Morocco’s bid to host the World Cup in 2026. El Hadi Ould Ali made the statement at the weekend on a working visit to the province of El Bayadh, south of Algeria. “The decision of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to support the candidacy of Morocco to host ...