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Gabon’s government announced on Saturday it was imposing a night-time curfew and cutting internet access in the wake of the general elections in the central African state. The overnight curfew will be imposed from Sunday, Communications Minister Rodrigue Mboumba Bissawou said on public television, to “counter the spread of calls for violence… and false information.”…
President Ali Bongo has won a third term in the presidential election with 64.27% of the vote, the Gabonese Election Centre (CGE) said on Wednesday August 30, 2023. Reuters reports that the opposition has denounced the poll as fraudulent. Announcing the result in the early hours, CGE head Michel Stephane Bonda said Bongo’s main challenger,…
Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba has called on his “friends all over the world to make noise” while under house arrest following a coup in the central African country. A video from an anonymous source shows Bongo distressed and making a plea for help. “I’m Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon and I’m…
One of the main opponents of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian political figure Bekele Gerba, has applied for political asylum in the United States, he told AFP on Monday, denouncing the deteriorating political situation in Ethiopia and saying he feared for his life. Released in January 2022 after 18 months in prison, Mr Bekele…
The 2020 general elections in Tanzania is like no other in its history. Not only has the country seen the highest number of candidates vying for leadership positions, this year has seen over 30 celebrities picking up forms to run for office. One of them is Zamaradi Mketema, one of the country’s most popular TV…
Job Tawengwa has lived on the road for about 25 years in his job defusing unexploded ordnances. This article is part of a feature series, Migration within Africa: Home so close to home. Harare, Zimbabwe – When the call came from war-ravaged South Sudan in June 2011, Job Tawengwa did not hesitate to say yes. Harare-based Tawengwa,…
