AFRICA

Kisumu, Kenya | AFP | After voting early Tuesday, Richard Ojijo, a 34-year-old fisherman, mounted his motorbike and drove a pair of elderly women to a polling centre so they, too, could cast their ballot. “I want them to exercise their democratic right,” Ojijo said of his impromptu election-day taxi service …

ODINGA: The system has failed. This is basically the computer that is voting. Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya’s main opposition candidate Raila Odinga said on Wednesday that he rejected the preliminary results of Tuesday’s presidential election, which show President Uhuru Kenyatta with a substantial lead. With more than 11 …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya’s opposition coalition rejected the preliminary results of the presidential election on Wednesday, calling them “fake” and disputing tallies that showed President Uhuru Kenyatta well on his way to being re-elected. The allegation by Kenyatta’s main challenger Raila Odinga set the stage for a protracted …

BREAKING NEWS: Jacob Zuma survives the motion of No Confidence… Yes – 177 No – 198 abstain – 9 Cape Town, South Africa | AFP | South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence, as ruling ANC lawmakers stuck by their leader despite divisions and …

Cape Town, South Africa | AFP | Below are key dates in the presidency of Jacob Zuma, in power in South Africa since 2009, and who faces a no-confidence vote by secret ballot in parliament Tuesday. – 2009: First Zulu president – On May 6, 2009, Zuma, the head of the …

  LIVE: Provisional Kenya election results via  @IEBCKenya (CLICK TO GET LIVE FEED) Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Polling centres closed and vote counting started an hour after Kenyans flocked to vote Tuesday in elections headlined by a knife-edge battle between incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga. From …

150 troops from Rwanda arrive in South Sudan for the regional protection force (RPF). Juba, South Sudan | AFP |  The head of South Sudan’s UN mission announced on Tuesday the long-awaited arrival of troops from a regional force meant to patrol roads and quell violence in the war-ravaged country. …

Cape Town, South Africa | AFP |  South Africa’s opposition derided President Jacob Zuma as a “broken and corrupt” leader Tuesday as lawmakers prepared to vote in a secret ballot that could oust him from office after years of scandals. (see live video bottom) Zuma faces a no-confidence vote in …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Some Kenyans braced long queues, others rain and chilly weather, but one woman gave birth Tuesday while in line to vote in general elections and still made sure to vote. A heavily pregnant Paulina Chemanang was feeling fine as she left to vote early at …

Kabul, Afghanistan | AFP | The Taliban — which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan — now appears to wield significant control over the war-torn country’s heroin production line, providing insurgents with billions of dollars, officials have told AFP. In 2016 Afghanistan, which produces 80 percent of the world’s …