Africa Archive

The President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu has announced that testing for HIV is now compulsory in that country. According to Mr. Lungu, testing, counselling and treatment for HIV which used to be voluntary, are now a must for every citizen as

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga says he will mount a legal challenge to the result of last week’s presidential election, which he claims was rigged. Mr Odinga, who was defeated by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta, has accused the electoral authorities of fraud

Three female suicide bombers have carried out an attack that has killed at least 27 people in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say. Dozens were injured when the women blew themselves up outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state – a

At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, a spokesman for the president has told the BBC. President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier pleaded for “urgent support”, saying entire communities

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), Mr. Laolu Akande, has recently disclosed that the federal government of Nigeria has spent N6.2 billion under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme. The Buhari administration

Whose business is it to send people to mecca who will return to be revered and call honorable? Is it a constitutional dictate to send people to Mecca? Has our Mps so called honorable men and women ever bothered to subject

Fifty officials from four Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana are currently receiving training on how to improve information disclosure and citizens’ access to information. The officials comprise chief executives, public relations/information officers, budget officers, planning officers and environmental

More than 300 people have been killed in mudslides and flooding near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. A hillside in the Regent area collapsed early on Monday following heavy rains, leaving many houses covered in mud. A BBC reporter at the scene