APA
As Nigerians go to the polls for the presidential and national assembly elections, the Federal Government has approved visa fee waiver for accredited observers and monitors of the elections.
Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio’s Anti-Corruption hammer has finally fallen on the family of his predecessor. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) said on Tuesday it had reached an out-of-court settlement with a brother of Ernest Bai Koroma who was found wanting for tax evasion.
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai has warned that any persons, who seek to undermine the nation’s democracy by interfering in the electoral process “must be seen as enemies of Nigeria and dealt with appropriately”.
The Prefect of the Department of Littoral in Benin, Modeste Toboula and the minister of Decentralization, Barnabe Dassigli have been sacked by President Patrice Talon.
A total of 5002 foreign and national poll observers in 41 missions are accredited for the 24 February 2019 presidential election in Senegal, Bernard Casimir Demba Cisse, Director of Training and Communication of the Directorate General of Elections (DGE) announced Wednesday in Dakar.
Ethiopia and Angola on Wednesday agreed to strengthen long-standing diplomatic relations.
The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) on Wednesday announced that its special congress to decide who will lead the party will be held from 5th to 7th April this year in Kang village in the west of the country.
eSwatini loses over $1.39 million per quarter through the payment of 3, 194 government employees who do not exist, a report tabled in parliament revealed.
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) announced that it is on the process of approving three draft bills to modernize the financial sector and improve the efficiency of remittance flows.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has appointed Amanya Michael Ebye, a Ugandan national, to the position of Director of UNRWA Affairs in the Syrian Arab Republic.