A trip to Botswana’s Chobe National Park Safari is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see large numbers of elephants, as well as many other animals from the comfort of your own vehicle along the riverfront. But how much does it cost to visit this popular safari location in 2026? Below is a detailed breakdown of the […]
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The Ethiopian government is using COVID-19 as a pretext to technically extend “its term of office indefinitely,” this is the view of activist – turned – politician Jawar Mohammed. He was reacting to the decision of Wednesday by the House of Federation – upper parliamentary chamber – to extend the mandate of federal and regional […]
Rwanda’s Minister of Technology and Innovation Paula Ingabire advanced on Wednesday that the Rwandan Space Agency must start operating in July this year. According to the minister, the agency will support forecasting and planning in agriculture, environmental monitoring, disaster preparedness, as well as urban planning through the use of satellite data and Earth observation images. […]
The republic of Congo is in mourning following the death of the patriarch of rumba and Congolese music, Edouard Nganga. Co-founder of the Bantous de la capitale in 1959, a year before the country’s independence, Edo Nganga was the last survivng member of one of Africa’s oldest musical group. Many people across the continent have […]
Dozens in Kenya’s capital Nairobi held peaceful demonstrations on Monday against police brutality. Marching through Mathare slums, the demonstrators demanded justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings. According to Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority, at least 15 people have been killed by the police since authorities imposed a coronavirus curfew in late March. Rebecca, a […]
In Mozambique, prostitutes continue to work in the midst of a health crisis. This is Tete, where the red light areas are as busy despite the risk of contracting COVID-19. Even during the state of emergency, at dusk, the sex workers come out parading as they search for clients. It is risky but they say […]
Botswana remains one of Africa’s least impacted countries, one of a handful with less than 100 cases of COVID-19. Government has in the past month taken drastic measures including a strict lockdown. President Eric Masisi tested negative for the third time on June 1. The wholes parliament was quarantined at a point when a health […]
Grade 12 pupils at one of the country’s top private boys’ schools, Diocesan College in Cape Town, better known as Bishops, held a protest at the school on Friday against “racism and discrimination”. They also delivered a hard-hitting list of demands saying, “we are approaching you as a matric year in its entirety, and not […]
Soldiers from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger engaged in the fight against jihadists in the central Sahel have been accused of increasingly abusing local populations. The allegations will feature on the agenda of the UN Security Council on Friday. “Peace and Security in Africa”: the theme of the meeting organized by the Security Council is […]
Peninah Wanjiru wasn’t really one to take chances. Her friends said the 35-year-old Kenyan sex worker was careful how she conducted business at her home in Majengo, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, where she only allowed clients in for a “quickie”. But on the night of May 7, a curfew imposed to […]
A nine-year-old Kenyan boy who made a wooden hand-washing machine to help curb the spread of coronavirus has told the KnowAfrika he is “very happy” after receiving a presidential award. “I now have two machines and I want to make more,” Stephen Wamukota said. They allow users to tip a bucket of water using a […]
A Nigerian artist is aiming to inspire young people in his vicinity through graffiti art in a Lagos suburb. Fawas Adeoye, 28, has been painting for more than 12 years, creating backdrops for music videos to painting on canvasses. “My graffiti art is strictly about educating people about and enlightening them. I see a lot […]
Civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Congo are taking to the front line of coronavirus sensitization efforts as the pandemic continues to spike in the vast Central African nation. Activists and NGOs in are leading efforts against the denial of the pandemic. They are basically fighting public misconceptions about the novel coronavirus. “Everything […]
Rwanda’s relationship with international peace keeping efforts is a mixed bag. During this period of the year in Rwanda, UN peacekeepers conjures up memories that many would like to forget. When the liberation war began on October 1, 1990, the Rwandan government forces suffered serious setbacks one after another. Even the reinforcements from Mobutu’s Zaire […]
Three months ago sub-Saharan Africa confirmed its first COVID-19 case in Nigeria. Although infections have risen and continue to grow, early and swift action by many countries in the region has slowed down the spread of the virus. Even before the virus could hit the region, several countries, in collaboration with the World Health Organization […]
Algeria on Wednesday recalled its ambassador from France for consultations, after documentaries about the North African country’s anti-government protest movement were aired on French public television. The interior ministry said films, including two broadcast on Tuesday, “seemingly spontaneous and under the pretext of freedom of expression, are in fact attacks on the Algerian people and […]
Poultry farmers in Kenya want the Ministry of Trade to intervene on the discriminative tariff by the Uganda on chicken meat. Uganda Revenue Authority has in the past two years charged Kenyan chicken meat exports a cumulative 25 per cent in taxes – 18 per cent VAT, one per cent Railway Development Levy and six […]
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has castigated the West for meddling in the internal affairs of African countries and called on Africans to deepen the culture of democracy and good governance as taught by the continent’s founding fathers. In his address to the nation on the eve of the 57th anniversary of the founding of the […]
Nigeria’s economy grew 1.87% in the first three months of 2020 from a year earlier, the statistics office said on Monday, shrinking from the previous quarter as oil prices and international trade fell due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is the slowest quarterly growth rate in one-and-a-half years, and comes as Nigeria has still not […]