Uganda elections: Queues at polling stations
Polling stations have opened across Uganda for presidential and parliamentary elections, amid increasing tension and an internet shutdown.
Journalists in Uganda have been posting pictures...
Coronavirus: South Africa shuts land borders
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that its land borders will be closed to most travellers until 15 February, in an effort to...
UGANDA: Bobi Wine ends radio interview abruptly
Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi popularly know as Bobi Wine has ended a radio interview with a Kenyan station abruptly after he said the...
Democrats ready for Trump impeachment after riot
The US House of Representatives could vote as early as Tuesday on an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a senior Democrat has...
Uganda elections 2021: How ex-rebel Yoweri Museveni has stayed in power for 35 years
Ugandans under the age of 35 - and that is more than three-quarters of the population - have only known one president.
Yoweri Museveni, who...
Twitter permanently suspends Trump’s account
US President Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter "due to the risk of further incitement of violence", the company says.
Twitter said the decision...
Police officer dies amid pressure on Trump over inciting violence
A US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called...
Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook
Donald Trump has been suspended from Twitter and Facebook after tweeting to supporters who attacked the US Capitol.
In a social media message to protesters...
Four dead after Trump supporters ransack Congress
DC Mayor Bowser and police chief Robert Contee just held a presser about the Capitol Hill protest.
They said the woman who was shot was...
Africa’s second coronavirus wave ‘more aggressive’
The second wave of coronavirus hitting Africa is "more aggressive" than the first, according to the head of the of the African Centres for...