On June 5, a group of at least five police officers punched and kicked Bartels, a reporter with the privately owned Nigeria Info radio...
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. In...
South Africans are about to vote in the most competitive election they’ve had since democracy began in 1994. But, despite this, the poll will have far...
JOHANNESBURG,South Africa, Monday April15th, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Appellate Division of the COMESA Court of Justice has allededly rigged judgement in favour of the...
Following months of protests, and a prolonged sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was placed under house arrest on...
It has been a little over a month since Felix Tshisekedi became the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) head of state.
Protests that followed the...
In our first OkayAfrica 100 Women event of 2019, we are bringing 100 women honorees NYT-best selling author, Clemantine Wamariya, and celebrated phototgrapher Laylah Barrayn for an evening...
Algeria’s 82-year-old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose has been in office since 1999, is seeking a fifth term – and many Algerians are not pleased with his decision.
There...
The world is making remarkable progress in combating poverty. From 2000 to 2013, the portion of the world’s population living on less than the...
Nigeria has postponed its 2019 presidential elections. The presidential and parliamentary votes have been rescheduled for February 23rd and the gubernatorial, state assembly and federal area...