Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa
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Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa
31 October 2025
1. Tanzania – Kenya
Tanzania’s post-electoral unrest isn’t confined to the country. It’s now spilling over into neighbouring Kenya.
The town of Namanga is divided by the Tanzania-Kenya border. Tanzanian protesters fled into Kenya to avoid confrontations with police, but officers then threw tear gas canisters over the border.
- Sudan – UN- AU – South Afrika
The United Nations has called for an immediate ceasefire in al-Fashir, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur region.
Addressing the Security Council yesterday, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, said the conflict has deteriorated even further since her last briefing.
- France – Afrika
Several African leaders attend annual Paris Peace Forum in French capital under the theme “New Coalitions for Peace, People and the Planet"
Several African leaders are among those in the city to take part in the two-day 8th annual Paris Peace Forum.
This includes Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé, Ghana’s John Dramani Mahama, Joseph Boakai of Liberia, and Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- USA- Nigeria
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country.
The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring in his passport so his visa could be cancelled in person as new unspecified information had come to light.
- In our historical archives, it was on this day 31 October 1949 when a Political activist, Teacher, Bank teller, Law lecturer, TRC Commissioner, Judge and Senior counsel Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza was born in Cala, Eastern Cape.
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