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The African Union announced on Friday it has suspended Guinea following a coup in the West African country that saw its President, Alpha Conde arrested. The pan-African body said on Twitter that it “decides to suspend the Republic of Guinea from all AU activities and decision-making bodies”. The move came after Guinean special forces seized power on Sunday and arrested ...

A magistrate in Zimbabwe has said that the body of former President Robert Mugabe can be exhumed after a traditional leader said that his burial had violated cultural practices. Mugabe, who died aged 95 in 2019, was buried in a courtyard of his family homestead. But after a local court hearing in May, the traditional leader said the internment broke ...

Gunmen have kidnapped three people who worked on a farm owned by Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo in south-western Ogun state. The gunmen opened fire on a vehicle transporting the three, before abducting them and running into a forest. Ogun police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the abductions. Security forces have embarked on a manhunt for the kidnappers in a bid ...

Ethiopia Prime Minister, Ebiy Ahmed, is in Ghana for a three-day state visit. The visit to deepen relations between Ethiopia and Ghana. The visit also comes on the back of ongoing fighting in northern Ethiopia, between the military and Tigray rebels. The Ethiopian conflict has been raging for 10 months, pushing hundreds of thousands of people into conditions of famine. ...

Col Mamady Doumbouya is seen as the new man in charge of Guinea after he led a unit of elite soldiers to seize power on Sunday. Announcing the military takeover, the 41-year-old former French legionary said the army had little choice because of the rampant corruption, disregard for human rights and economic mismanagement under President Alpha Condé. “The president is ...

The Libyan national soccer team trained for the first time at the Benina Martyrs Stadium, in the outskirts of the city of Benghazi under the leadership of its Spanish coach, Javier Clemente. Clemente was appointed Lybian manager after replacing Montenegrin Zoran Filipovic last June. It is Clemente’s second stint as Lybian manager after leading the team between 2013 and 2016, ...

The Paris Court of Appeal on Monday rejected an appeal request by the widow of former Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana to end a probe into claims she played a role in the 1994 genocide. Agathe Habyarimana has been under investigation since 2007 for “complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. She is suspected of being one of the masterminds of ...

Zambia’s new President Hakainde Hichilema has replaced the country’s top military commanders and the head of the police – and signalled a focus on the security forces being more accountable to the citizens. The president late on Sunday announced new commanders of the Zambian army, the air force and the national service and their deputies, as well as a new ...

Nollywood veteran Victor Olaotan has died. The movie star passed away on Thursday, August 26, 2021, after a prolonged illness. His widow, Julia Olaotan, broke the news of his death to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday morning. Mrs Olaotan said she is grateful that the 69-year-old actor can finally go to rest after suffering for years. “He has tried. It is ...

Fifteen students have been reunited with their parents seven weeks after they were kidnapped from their school in north-western Nigeria, officials say. One parent said some of the children were recovering in hospital following their ordeal. A total of 121 one students were seized from Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State. The police say efforts are continuing to secure ...