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Ghana’s president removes country’s chief justice after investigation

1 Sep 2025

ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has removed the West African nation’s chief justice effective immediately, a statement from the president’s office said on Monday. The statement said Mahama’s decision was based on a report by a committee that found grounds of “misbehaviour” and recommended Gertrude Torkornoo’s removal from office. Mahama launched an investigation …

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Jailed Ugandan opposition figure boycotts trial, accusing judge of bias

1 Sep 2025

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Jailed Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye boycotted the start of his treason trial on Monday, accusing the presiding judge of bias, his attorney said. Besigye’s months-long detention has shone a spotlight on President Yoweri Museveni’s human rights record ahead of polls early next year in which Museveni, 80, is seeking re-election. The trial …

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RSF’s Hemedti sworn in as head of parallel Sudanese government

30 Aug 2025

CAIRO (Reuters) -Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, was sworn in as the head of a parallel Sudanese government, the government said in a statement, pushing the country a step closer towards de facto partition. Dagalo, known as Hemedti, has rarely been seen in Sudan since the start of a 28-month-long …

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At least 70 killed in capsize of migrant boat off West Africa, Gambia says

30 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -At least 70 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of West Africa, Gambia’s foreign affairs ministry said late on Friday, in one of the deadliest accidents in recent years along a popular migration route to Europe. Another 30 people are feared dead after the vessel, believed to have …

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South African rand range-bound after US inflation report, local data releases

29 Aug 2025

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand showed little reaction on Friday to a key U.S. inflation report and mixed domestic economic data. At 1521 GMT, the rand traded at 17.6675 against the dollar, a whisker away from Thursday’s close. The dollar was flat against a basket of currencies after the world’s largest economy reported a …

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Kenya exhumes 32 bodies as outcry grows over starvation cult deaths

29 Aug 2025

MALINDI, Kenya (Reuters) -Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism of authorities who had vowed to crack down on extremist sects after hundreds of members of a doomsday cult died two years ago. The Kenyan government and local residents have linked the …

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Rwanda received migrants deported from the US earlier this month

28 Aug 2025

By Daphne Psaledakis and George Obulutsa WASHINGTON/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rwanda received seven migrants deported from the United States earlier this month, a government spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday, weeks after the two countries reached an agreement for the transfer of up to 250 people. “The first group of seven vetted migrants arrived in Rwanda …

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Sibanye Stillwater narrows loss on restructuring, US production credits

28 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Sibanye Stillwater reported a narrower first-half loss on Thursday, as production credits at its U.S. palladium business and the restructuring of its South African mines partly offset big writedowns at its U.S. and Finnish operations. The Johannesburg-based miner posted a loss of $211 million, for the six months to June 30, down from a …

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Four African states running out of special food for starving children, aid group says

28 Aug 2025

NAIROBI (Reuters) -At least four African countries will run out of specialised life-saving food for severely malnourished children in the next three months due to shortages caused by aid cuts, Save the Children said on Thursday. Supplies were getting dangerously low in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan of high-energy biscuits, peanut-based Plumpy’Nut paste and …

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