Robert Mugabe: as divisive in death as he was in life

Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand

Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, has died. Mugabe was 95, and had been struggling with ill health for some time. The country’s current President Emmerson Mnangagwa announce

Most universities in Kenya could be forced to drop Business Administration, Education and Journalism degrees as the Ministry of Education moves to stop uneconomical multiplication of degrees.

The Tanzanian government is set to receive a proposal that will see names of married men published in an effort to help curb cheating among couples and save young women from heartbreaks. 

Egypt is the first country globally to launch its national women strategy 2030, which is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco and Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, have both stressed that Africa’s wealth must benefit Africa.

Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a second term as president of Nigeria at a ceremony in the capital, Abuja.

Sudan's transitional military council has arrested members of the former government and promised not to disperse protesters.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, on Saturday, revealed that he once withdrew $10 million just to look at it and prove to himself that he was indeed rich.

The Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Paul Kaba Thieba, has resigned from office along with his entire cabinet.

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr George Ayisi-Boateng has been spending the first working week of the New Year visiting Ghanaians in South Africa at their various workplaces to interact with them and to check on their well-being.

Following the presentation of attestation certificate to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Registrar of West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Abuja, the Number one bestselling author and former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri has described the development as pure garbage, maintaining that President Buhari has no WAEC certificate.

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has urged couples to keep reproducing, saying only "lazy people" opted for birth control, the local Citizen news site has reported.

The vice president of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Mr Driss Ouazar, has said that the problem of Africa was not the lack of resources but how to properly organise them for the benefit of the whole continent.

Moroccc is the most attractive economy for investments into the African continent in 2018, according to the latest Africa Investment Index 2018.

Voters in Zimbabwe are going to the polls in the country's first election without the involvement of long-time leader Robert Mugabe.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari appears to be putting on a brave face following a wave of defections of lawmakers from his All Progressive Congress (APC) party on Tuesday.

Egypt and Ghana are two of the major countries when it comes to their role in promoting, adopting and defending the African Agenda.

The President of LIONS Clubs International (LCI), Gudrun Yngvadottir, has appointed Past District Governor Lion, Mrs Gloria Esi Lassey, as a constitutional Area Chairperson for Africa, the Islands in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East under the New Voices Initiative.