There is a sense of mounting anticipation in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. An announcement by the army is now expected raising anticipation that President Omar al-Bashir’s 30 years in power are coming to an end. Tens of thousands of people have been maintaining a protest vigil outside military headquarters since Saturday,
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Algeria's parliament has appointed the speaker of its upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, to succeed former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as the country's interim leader. Mr Bouteflika, in power for 20 years, resigned last week following a series of huge anti-government protests. Mr Bensalah will lead the country during a transition period
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South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has denied an allegation by a local newspaper that former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave him $30m (£22m). According to the Sunday Times the money was to secure Col Gaddafi legal representation if he was captured and taken to court or to pass on
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France's president has appointed a panel of experts to look into the country's actions during the Rwandan genocide 25 years ago. The presidency said the commission of researchers and historians would consult all of France's archives relating to the genocide in order to analyse the French activities in Rwanda at
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Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, announced on Thursday that he will transfer roughly 4% of the company’s stock to his wife, MacKenzie, most likely by early July, Forbes reports. The couple are in the process of finalizing their divorce. Those shares are worth more than $35 billion
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By BBC WASHINGTON, The US has revoked the entry visa for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda. The decision is thought to be the US response to Ms Bensouda's investigation into possible war crimes by American forces and their allies in Afghanistan. The US secretary of
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Families of Kenyans who died in an Ethiopian Airlines flight last month say they will sue the airline and US aircraft manufacturer Boeing over the deaths. The families of those who died say the aircraft manufacturer Boeing and the airline should bear the responsibility for the deaths of their loved
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The U.S. State Department on Tuesday called on Burundi to rescind its decision to suspend the U.S-funded Voice of America and ban the BBC and to allow journalists to operate freely in the run-up to elections in 2020. “This decision raises serious concerns for the freedom of expression enshrined in
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By Mirror Investigators into a Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people have reached a preliminary conclusion that an anti-stall system was activated before the plane hit the ground, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that preliminary findings from the "black box" recorders
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A lawsuit against the airplane maker Boeing has been filed in a United States federal court by the family of a man who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash earlier this month, BBC reports. All 157 crew and passengers were killed in the accident. The relatives of Jackson Musoni, a
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