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Two Burundi officials have been imprisoned after the African country's president was allegedly "roughed up" in a football match they organised. A judicial source told AFP the officials were arrested on charges of "conspiracy against the president"  President Pierre Nkurunziza is...

More than 40 South Sudanese officials may be guilty of crimes against humanity, the UN says. South Sudan plunged into civil war in 2013, two years after gaining independence More than 40 South Sudanese officials may have committed crimes against...

The Monrovia Church massacre in 1990 was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war. About 600 civilians, including many children, were killed while taking refuge in a church... 

Written by Lorenzo Kamel  On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European...

CAPE TOWN — Jacob Zuma resigned on Wednesday as the president of South Africa, after his party, the African National Congress, pressured him to step down a year and a half before his second term would end in the...

As written by Gebreluel, Bedasso and Mamo, ethnic politics is not a necessary evil that Ethiopia has to live with - it is rather an existential threat.  Ethiopia has been experiencing recurrent mass protests, riots and ethnic conflicts over the...

Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people. It's a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of truth. When we read it,...

Global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), has described the response of the Federal Government to communal violence as grossly inadequate, too slow, ineffective, and in certain instances, illegal. The body also said communal clashes have claimed over 700...

Every year IRCALC Editors collate and review your entries for the relevant journals and book texts of African and Black Literature. Important Notice for Submitting an Abstract Deposition for Journal Articles: Although we generally welcome any or several theoretical considerations as applied...

In the manipulated political graphology of this African kleptocracy only a stooge, never capable of independent or thoughtful universality of vision, would seem to be goaded on to preside over the Nigerian state. Mendicants for Tribe: Revisiting the Argument for True...