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Nairobi – Kenyan police fired teargas at opposition protesters who burned tyres and lobbed stones, a day after their leader Raila Odinga announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, plunging the country into uncharted waters. As poll officials mulled their next move, opinions were split on what the veteran opposition leader’s move could mean for a dramatic election saga that ...

TWO RAF jets have been scrambled to deal with an incident over the Channel. The Typhoon jets were scrambled from RAF Coningsby at around 1.50pm this afternoon. AirLive reports the jets were sent to deal with a French aircraft over the Channel. The flight monitoring website said: “The two Typhons were scrambled from RAF Coningsby airbase to intercept a French ...

Harare – Zimbabwe’s ex-freedom fighters have reportedly described President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace as being “misguided”, following attacks on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The Mugabes recently launched scathing attacks on Mnangagwa, accusing him of fanning factionalism within the ruling Zanu-PF party, said reports. First to fire a salvo at Mnangagwa in front of thousands of party loyalists who ...

New York – The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged Libyans, divided with rival governments and beset by violence, to work together ahead of hoped-for elections. The 15-member council gave its full support to a plan by the new UN envoy Ghassan Salame for legislative and presidential ballots by July next year. It “strongly urges all Libyans to work together ...

Monrovia – Vote counting continued across Liberia on Wednesday following presidential elections that are likely to go to a runoff with 20 candidates contesting, local media and observers say. Ex-soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai are leading, according to unofficial results reported by the state-run Liberia Broadcasting System. “There is a likelihood that there will be a ...

Nairobi – A Kenya police official says four people with gunshot wounds have been admitted to hospitals in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu county, where police used live ammunition to disperse protesters demanding reforms to the electoral commission ahead of a fresh election. The official says the four were wounded in a clash between protesters and police near Kondele slum ...

Monrovia – Liberians gathered in masses under the bright sun on Tuesday to vote in an election that for the first time in more than 70 years will see one democratically elected government hand power to another. As Africa’s first female president prepares to step aside, there are fears that if the results aren’t accepted the tensions and violence of ...

Blantyre – Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday vowed a thorough investigation after seven people were murdered by vigilantes in a vampire scare that has driven UN staffers out of the affected region. Since mid-September, vigilantes have slaughtered seven people suspected of trying to obtain and drink human blood as part of magic rituals. The vampire rumours sweeping the country’s ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October’s election re-run. Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities and declaring it “neither transparent or verifiable”. The electoral commission ...

FEARS of a volcano erupting on the Canary Islands has sparked panic as the Spanish archipelago was hit by more than 40 earthquake tremors in just 48 hours. La Palma was rocked by more than 40 seismic movements of low magnitude and intensity between 1.5 and 2.7 on the Richter scale, according to the data of the National Geographic Institute. ...