Cape Town – From Nigeria’s ruling APC picking former Lagos governor and veteran political operator Bola Tinubu as its candidate for the 2023 election; to Mali’s neighbours criticising the country’s junta…Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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WATCH | Nigeria’s ruling party picks ex-Lagos governor Bola Tinubu as 2023 candidate
Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress on Wednesday picked former Lagos governor and veteran political operator Bola Tinubu as its candidate for the 2023 election to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Read more…
Mali’s neighbours criticise junta extension but talks continue
Mali’s neighbours have criticised the country’s junta for formally extending military rule by two years but said they would “continue to engage” with it. Read more…
Sudan starts post-coup talks without key civilian bloc
Sudan on Wednesday began UN-facilitated direct talks between rival factions hoped to resolve a political crisis sparked by last year’s coup, but with a critical civilian bloc refusing to participate. Read more…
Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Owen Lloyd Rogers as Judge of ConCourt
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Judge Owen Lloyd Rogers as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Read more…
Bola Tinubu: Nigeria’s political ‘godfather’
Bola Tinubu, a political “godfather” famed for his deftness and clout, has never hidden his ambition to be president of Nigeria. Read more…
Critically ill patient dies as paramedics are robbed at gunpoint
Two Emergency Response (ER24) personnel in the North West province were reportedly robbed at gunpoint while transporting a critically ill patient on Tuesday. Read more…
Jammeh victims demand concrete action to extradite Gambian ex-dictator
Gambian victims’ groups on Wednesday urged the government to take concrete action to extradite the ex-president Yahya Jammeh two weeks after it promised to prosecute him for a litany of alleged crimes. Read more…
Student teacher who was shot at Durban school dies in hospital
The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department is concerned by the rate at which schools are becoming “soft targets” for shootings following the death of a student-teacher who was shot in the head at a Newlands West Durban school. Read more…
Belgian king regrets colonial ‘humiliation’ in landmark DRC trip
King Philippe of Belgium, in a historic visit to DR Congo, said on Wednesday that his country’s rule over the vast central African country had inflicted pain and humiliation through a mixture of “paternalism, discrimination and racism.” Read more…
Malawi govt bans Zodwa Wabantu over her ‘controversial stage acts’
South African entertainer Zodwa Wabantu has been banned from performing at an amapiano festival in Blantyre, Malawi, because of her “controversial stage acts”. Read more…
SA boxer Simiso Buthelezi dies from brain injury
Lightweight boxer Simiso Buthelezi, 24, died after suffering bleeding on the brain following a fight at the weekend in Durban, Boxing South Africa (BSA) said on Wednesday. Read more…
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