Africa is a continent that is well-known for its impressive variety of species and animals’specific looks. Cradling deserts and forests, it shelters diverse animals that are uniqueto the seven continents of the world. Many of…
Africa’s coronavirus cases hits half a million, about…
Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases. The continent-wide total is over 508,000, according to figures released Wednesday by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and corroborated by the John…
Morocco: pro-ISIS cell dismantled, four arrested
Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that four alleged members of a “terrorist cell” linked to the jihadist group Islamic State (EI) had been arrested. Nabbed in Nador in the country’s north-east, the arrested persons, aged…
African nations reopening airspace despite rising COVID-19 cases
As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived. Two chartered Air Seychelles flights…
New reggae bar will soon infuse Seychelles’ La…
Reggae lovers in Seychelles' La Digue island will soon be able to enjoy food, music and a drink at the country's first reggae bar. Owned by couple Ethel and Lenny Durup, La Digue Reggae Bar…
French court rejects probe into Rwandan president assassination
Rwandan authorities have welcomed a decision by a French court to reject a bid to reopen an investigation into the assassination of Rwanda’s president in 1994. This assassination ignited a 100-day genocide that led to…
COVID-19: An opportunity for traditional medicines
COVID-19 has catapulted the issue of traditional medicines to the fore especially on the back of Madagascar’s claims that its COVID-Organics had curative and preventive potency against the virus. While some schools of thought increasingly…
Rape as another pandemic
Stella Odife Today, the voices of hunger, the voices of insecurity and the voices of COVID-19 have been almost drowned with the voices of rape. At least within the life period of this administration, no…
AFCON moved to 2022, delayed CHAN slated for…
The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has announced the postponement of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON to January 2022 citing the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament had been scheduled to…
Gabon senate votes in favour of pro-gay law
Gabon’s upper parliamentary chamber, the senate, has voted in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, a week after the lower house strongly voted in that direction. The ball is now in the court of President Ali Bongo…
Africa COVID-19 stats: 382,190 cases; 9,664 deaths; 182,553…
There are now more than over 380,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic. According…
Malawi swears in new president Lazarus Chakwera
Malawi held an investiture for president Lazarus Chakwera and vice-president Saulos Chilima, hours after the elections body declared Chakwera winner of last Tuesday’s polls. The event was held in Lilongwe where thousands gathered as Chief…
Burundi holds funeral, burial for Nkurunziza in capital…
Thousands of Burundians on Friday lined the road to the capital Gitega as the body of former president Pierre Nkurunziza was escorted under heavy security for a state funeral after his sudden death earlier this…
Donors pledge $1.8 billion for Sudan
Foreign donor nations pledged $1.8 billion at a conference hosted by Germany to help Sudan ease an economic crisis hampering its transition towards democracy after the fall of Omar al-Bashir. The European Union pledged 312…
Ghana apologises to Nigeria for demolition at embassy
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologized to his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari following the illegal building demolition on the premises of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra, according to a statement. The two West African…
Gabon MPs vote to decriminalise homosexuality
Lawmakers in Gabon’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a law that punishes sexual relations between people of the same…
You are not gods: Uganda’s president asks WHO…
Uganda’s president on Monday expressed his frustration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying they are not gods and should be modest as they set out guidelines to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Museveni,…
A year on: Ethiopia remembers ex-army chief, 2019…
Ethiopia remembered former army chief Seare Mekonnen on Monday, on the first anniversary of his assassination in 2019 via a failed regional coup d’etat in the Amhara regional state. A memorial ceremony in Seare’s native…
Morocco’s management of Covid19
Morocco’s virus management has been noticed and praised in Europe. Very early the kingdom took the decision to close its borders and set up guidelines for the supply, manufacture and distribution of masks. There was…
