Three UN Peacekeepers Killed, Three Injured In Mali Attack
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and three others seriously injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mali on Monday, a U.N. spokesperson said.
Islamist militants, some with links to al-Qaida and Islamic State, have been waging ... Read More
Somalia Faces Worst Famine In Half A Century, UN Warns
An estimated 7.8 million people - roughly half of the population - are now affected by drought, of whom 213,000 are at high risk of famine, according to the UN
Somalia faces famine on a scale last seen half a ... Read More
Uganda Locks Down Two Districts In Bid To Check Spread Of Eb...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an immediate lockdown and imposition of a dusk-till-dawn curfew for three weeks in two districts in a bid to stop the spread of Ebola.
Places of worship, markets, bars and entertainment will be closed and restrictions ... Read More
AU Calls For ‘immediate Ceasefire’ In Ethiopia’s Tigra...
The African Union’s chief has called for an “immediate, unconditional ceasefire” in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.
An AU statement, released on Saturday, said Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat is “following with great concern reports of increased fighting in ... Read More
Tunisia: Thousands From Rival Political Parties Protest Agai...
Protesters call for President Kais Saied to go.
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Tunisia's capital to demonstrate against the president.
Parallel demonstrations by political movements who are deeply opposed to each other were held in Tunis.
Both groups denounced ... Read More
The Ivorian Immigrant Elected To Italy’s Conservative Parl...
Italian-Ivorian activist, trade unionist and newly elected member of Parliament Aboubakar Soumahoro, looks on during an interview with Reuters on October 5, 2022
When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and ... Read More
Cameroon, Nigeria Request To Join Ivory-Ghana Cocoa Initiati...
Cameroon and Nigeria requested to join the Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), a joint body spearheading the interests of the two countries in the cocoa trade, the head of the initiative Alex Assanvo said on Wednesday.
The initiative was set up ... Read More
Europe Turns To Africa For Gas As Alternative To Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Senegal's President and Chairperson of the African Union Macky Sall in Sochi, Russia on June 3, 2022 can play in underpinning the energy security of nations and regions,” he told an energy industry meeting ... Read More
UN: Migrants In Libya Compelled To Go Home Under Threat Of A...
A new U.N. report finds migrants in Libya are subject to systematic human rights violations and abuse to compel them to accept so-called assisted returns to their countries of origin.Authors of the report say migrants in Libya are trapped in ... Read More
‘Not Fair’: Ghana Slams West Over Low Funding For Climat...
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has criticised Western nations for their low financial commitment to addressing issues caused by climate change on the continent.
“$55m for 54 countries – this is not fair,” Akufo-Addo was quoted as saying by French state broadcaster ... Read More