AFRICA

A former deputy speaker in Malawi on Thursday shot himself in the head inside parliament, where he had gone for a meeting, parliament said. Clement Chiwaya, who was 50, killed himself inside the parliament building, where he had gone to discuss vehicle benefits entitled to him when he left office…

Mamady Doumbouya, a special forces colonel who led a coup in the West African state of Guinea on September, will be sworn in as interim president on Friday, the authorities say. Doumbouya will be sworn in at noon (1200 GMT) at the Mohammed V conference centre in the capital Conakry,…

Kenya’s veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has dismissed widespread rumours of a power-sharing deal between him and President Uhuru Kenyatta ahead of elections next year as he leaves the door open for a fifth presidential bid. A mainstay of Kenyan politics, the former prime minister remains hugely popular despite losing…

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed a politician dismissed for criticising her predecessor as energy minister in a cabinet reshuffle that also included the nomination of the country’s first female defence minister. Former deputy environment minister January Makamba was sacked from the government in 2019 and forced to apologise…

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, jailed for 15 months in July for contempt of court after snubbing graft investigators, was placed on medical parole Sunday just two months into his term, prison authorities announced. Zuma, 79, has been hospitalised since August 6 at a health facility outside the prison…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has reacted to the coup d’etat, which occurred on Sunday in a West African Country, the Republic of Guinea. A video sighted by AFP had indicated that soldiers took over the country by suspending the current constitution and reportedly detaining President Alpha Conde. Reacting, the Federal…

Guinea, where a junta seized power in a coup on Sunday, arresting President Alpha Conde, is an impoverished West African country despite a wealth of natural resources. Authoritarian regimes The former French colony is the only Francophone state on the continent to have rejected in 1958 the Franco-African community proposed…

Saadi Kadhafi, son of Libya’s late dictator Moamer Kadhafi, who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has been freed from jail, a justice ministry source confirmed to AFP Sunday. “Saadi Moamer Kadhafi has been freed from prison,” in accordance with a court ruling handed down several years ago,…

Hakainde Hichilema, new president of Zambia, has appointed Kuyomba Bwalya as deputy commissioner-general of the country’s correctional service. Hichilema was a detainee under Bwalya in 2017, when he was charged with treason for allegedly putting former President Edgar Lungu’s life in danger. The opposition leader, as of the time, was…

Zambia’s new president, Hakainde Hichilema has told the BBC that he has inherited an “empty” treasury, while “horrifying” amounts of money had been stolen. “People are still trying to make last-minute movements of funds, which are unauthorised, which are not theirs,” President Hakainde Hichilema said. He defeated his rival Edgar Lungu…