Senegal’s president Macky Sall. EPA-EFE Maurice Soudieck Dione, Université Gaston Berger October 29, 2019//-Earlier this year Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, embarked on his second term as president pledging “constructive” dialogue with the opposition. This followed tense elections in which Sall was accused of preventing some of his main rivals from running.
Tripoli, Libya, October 23, 2019//- More than 100 civilians have been killed in at least 33 air and ground strikes since rival factions began the battle for the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in April.
Johannesburg, South Africa, October 21, 2019//-One of the most senior politicians in South Africa’s historically white main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has resigned his post and quit the party over how it handles race.
October 18, 2019//-For months, hundreds of Africans migrants and asylum seekers from conflict-ridden countries like Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been camped out in tents in front of the main immigration detention facility in the town of Tapachula, in southern Mexico.
Abuja, Nigeria, October 18, 2019//- Religious tensions have returned to haunt Nigeria after nine children were alleged to have been separated from their Muslim families and forcibly converted to Christianity.
October 13, 2019//-At least 15 people have been killed and two seriously injured in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso.
October 12, 2019//-The leader of the Commonwealth team observing elections in Mozambique has condemned the killing of a man who headed a local observer group.
Djibouti, October 11, 2019/ — Burkina Faso is grappling with a growing and unprecedented humanitarian situation.
Maputo, Mozambique, October 11, 2019//- Two Mozambican senior police officers have been suspended after law enforcers’ implication in the murder of an election observer this week.
October 7, 2019//-The Commonwealth will send a team to observe elections in Mozambique, which will take place on 15 October 2019.
