Africa

As economic unrest roils Zimbabwe, amid numerous arrests, deaths and injuries due to the security forces’ crackdown on dissent, President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for national diagloue among political parties and civic leaders.

After reports of multiple deaths in violent protests over steep fuel price hikes in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Robert Ndlovu of Harare called for restraint by the security forces and protesters.

Congo runner-up Martin Fayulu announced on Friday he will file a court challenge to the presidential election results.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo appeared ready to achieve its first peaceful transfer of power with the surprise victory Thursday of opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi, despite clear signs that a rival opposition leader actually won in a landslide. With no major protests in the capital and limited violence elsewhere in the vast Central African country, […]

Congo is preparing for a crucial vote to elect a successor for President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since 2001.

“He has a great capacity for synthesis, and his doors are open to all, whether to those in government or to those in opposition.”

“If no more fighting happens during the coming months, people will slowly gain confidence and start to come back.”