Africa

Photo: The Independent Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow (C) gesturing to the crowd in Kololi. By Demola Ojo with agency reports An ECOWAS delegation to Gambia led by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday left the country with peace talks inconclusive. It was a last-ditch attempt to persuade Gambia’s longtime leader, …

Charity Survival International claims Baka Pygmies have been suffering abuses due to WWF’s work for decades. The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) charity is facing an investigation after being linked to alleged abuses of pygmy communities in Cameroon. The charity has been accused of funding anti-poaching rangers, who then …

  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said a standoff with neighboring West African states over his refusal to step aside after losing December’s election will escalate into war if the alliance doesn’t back down from its stance. Speaking in a televised New Year’s address, Jammeh said a vow by the Economic …

  President Mahama concedes defeat to former foreign minister Akufo-Addo, who was making his third bid for the top job. Akufo-Addo, pictured with his wife Rebecca, was making his third bid for the top job [Reuters] Ghana’s main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the country’s national election, defeating President John …

Parts of Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, are seen from a helicopter in 2012 in northern Kenya. Ben Curtis/AP Kenya says it is postponing the closure of the world’s largest refugee camp for six months following a request from the United Nations. Earlier this year, Kenyan officials vowed to …

President Jacob Zuma isn’t happy about the release of an audio recording of his interview with then public protector Thuli Madonsela as she tried to get answers regarding allegations of state capture. The president has in fact filed a complaint with the office of the public protector. Zuma lodges complaint …

Photo: GCIS President Jacob Zuma in the National Assembly (file photo). MPs should use the only platform available to them to remove President Jacob Zuma on Thursday, DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said. The Speaker’s office confirmed on Tuesday that the motion of no confidence against Zuma would be debated …

CREDIT: OLEKSANDR RUPETA/GETTY IMAGES Just a few months after being elected Conservative Party leader, David Cameron flew to Rwanda. It was a high-profile trip so he could see first-hand the development of one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies and launch his party’s review on globalisation and global poverty. On his first …

Artie Photography | Getty Images City of Johannesburg, South Africa Can South Africa, the country that put the “S” in BRICS — the acronym for the best and brightest emerging market economies — escape a trip to the junk heap? It’s unlikely that it can. In this case, “junk” refers …

Event provides a platform for young photographers working to change the view of Africa as a continent of the desperate KK 13 Photograph: Alakija Studios/LagosPhoto Charlotte Jansen Thursday 3 November 2016 08.00 GMTLast modified on Thursday 3 November 201608.02 GMT Since the first colonisers landed on the continent, photography has been complicit …