Morocco and the African Union (AU) signed on Monday an agreement to set up the headquarters of the African Observatory for Migration and Development (OAMD) in Morocco's capital Rabat. The agreement was signed by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and chairman ... Read More

Robert Mugabe Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has been receiving medical treatment in Singapore for the last two months and is no longer able to walk, though he should return home next week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. Mugabe, 94, ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ethiopia’s attorney general on Monday made several damning revelations including the role played by security forces in planning an attempted assassination on prime minister Abiy Ahmed. Abiy, who became premier in April and has since implemented a ... Read More

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau has commended Ethiopia for ongoing reforms, specifically the increase in number of women in key government roles. Trudeau, who spoke to Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed on phone, said his government is committed to supporting the ... Read More

The women-led wave in Ethiopia shows no signs of abating as the country welcomed its first Chief Justice, i.e. President of the Federal Supreme Court, on Thursday morning. Meaza Ashenafi, was approved unanimously by the lawmaking chamber, House of Peoples Representatives, ... Read More

The ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) on Monday opened a two-day capacity training workshop aimed at developing and sustaining media interest in the delivery of credible, transparent and peaceful elections in the Sub-Region. ECONEC considers the media as playing key ... Read More

Africa's objective of an integrated Africa cannot be achieved without peace and stability on the continent, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. He stressed that the  continent's efforts at integration would be gloom-ridden if African states continued to battle with ... Read More

Ambassador Sahle-Work Zewde Media portals in Ethiopia are reporting that the country will get its first woman president after President Mulatu Teshome steps down on Thursday. The influential Addis Standard cited top government officials as confirming that Ambassador Sahle-Work Zewde, a ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that some of the soldiers who entered the grounds of his office last week had wanted to kill him. At the time, he defused the situation by ordering them to ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Wednesday played down growing anxiety on China’s foray into Africa, saying there was history to guide the Continent’s dealing with the Asian economic giant. He said the situation where Ghana, like many countries in Africa, was ... Read More