Around 40 million people live with hearing loss in the African Region, but this figure could rise to 54 million by 2030 if urgent action is not taken to tackle the problem, according to a…
Organization of Africa’s oil producing countries relocate headquarters…
The African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO), Tuesday, agreed to relocate the headquarters of the organization from Nigeria to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. The Council of Ministers approved the recommendation to move the temporary Headquarters of…
Famine ravages Burkina Faso as farmers call for…
The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso has been hard hit by drought and desertification. Just east of capital Ouagadougou, once fertile land is now dry. The area used to support generations of farmers,…
Egypt encourages families to care for orphaned children
The Egyptian government is encouraging families to take care of abandoned children and raise them as their own, invoking the age-old Muslim doctrine of Kafala. This follows the introduction of a series of legal amendments…
Works of Congolese, Egyptian directors feature at Cannes…
There will be no African film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival according to organizers. In the midst of the fight against the coronavirus, the annual meeting of world cinema will be held virtually. A…
Nigeria coronavirus: 12,233 cases; good 100 days since…
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, became the third African country to record over 10,000 cases of COVID-19. The milestone was reached on May 31 when 307 new cases took its tally to 10,162. As Africa’s…
Outrage over reported death of Cameroonian journalist Wazizi
Journalists in Cameroon have taken to the streets of Buea in the South west region to protest and demand an account of their missing colleague, Samuel Wazizi, after local media reported he had died in…
Restrictive measures leave Northern Senegalese herders stranded
Herders in Northern Senegal can no longer move their livestock. They are thousands of semi-nomadic Fulani stuck in the Louga region, where they have been since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Restrictions imposed by…
South Africa burdened by about 100,000 virus testing…
Authorities in South Africa have expressed worry over shortages of COVID-19 testing kits and reagents as cases consistently rise in the country and across the continent. Nearly 100,000 people have not taken the coronavirus tests…
SADC to help Mozambique fight off insurgents
Mozambique is top priority for Southern African leaders under the auspices of the SADC. In Harare on Wednesday, regional bloc leaders met to discuss the growing Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique. At the day-long meeting…
Nigeria: jihadist attacks increase ahead of Eid
Jihadist groups have carried out several attacks in northeastern Nigeria ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan for Muslims, according to corroborating sources. On Monday night, fighters from the Islamic State in…
Malawi: Dire costs for campaign amid virus –…
Officials and experts are sounding the alarm as Malawi shifts to top campaign gear with giant rallies for an unprecedented presidential re-run despite the coronavirus pandemic. Malawi University of Science and Technology virologist Gama Bandawe…
Madagascar records its first coronavirus death
Madagascar on Sunday announced the first death of a patient suffering from the novel coronavirus, nearly two months after it was first detected in the country. The 57-year-old hospital worker died on Saturday and had…
UN agency plans economic readjustment in Africa after…
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) looks forward to the day after Covid-19 and forsees the reorientation of the continent's economies, which so far have accumulated almost 2,360 deaths from the disease. Any…
Ivory Coast withdraws from African Human Rights and…
Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Human Rights and Peoples Court, a week after the tribunal ordered the West African nation to suspend an arrest warrant against presidential hopeful Guillaume Soro, who on Tuesday was…
Malawi launches $40 cash transfer to cushion the…
Malawi launches emergency cash transfer programme targeting about 1 million people and small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic, President Arthur Peter Mutharika said on Tuesday. Eligible households will receive a 35,000 Malawi kwacha ($40)…
Rwandan police chief accused of child refugee sexual…
An allegation that a Rwandan police commander sexually assaulted a child refugee has rocked an EU-funded scheme, under which hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers have been evacuated from detention centres in Libya. The allegation…
Nigeria Red Cross donates relief items to the…
In Nigeria, the Red Cross in Lagos has distributed relief items to vulnerable people reeling under pressure over lockdown. The Makoko community is one of the hardest hit as the city observes the lockdown to…
Calm in Niger as Ramadan begins
It was a calm day in Niamey on day one of the Holy month of Ramadan. It follows protest against a curfew and ban on mass prayers to help curtail spread of the coronavirus. But…
