Speaking to reporters on Friday, UN Secretary General Guterres noted that serious cuts to humanitarian aid by the US is going to unleash highly damaging consequences for millions of people across the globe. Guterres said…
Impossible to hold 2020 polls – Somalia elections…
Somalia joins the league of country’s that cannot hold elections – not because of the coronavirus as in the case of Ethiopia but because of preparatory challenges, the elections chief has disclosed. According to National…
Kenya: Shalom Hospital closed, turned into quarantine facility…
Machakos county government has shut down Shalom Hospital in Athi River after Covid 19 patients died at the facility. The hospital was sealed off on Friday evening out of fear that some other patients might…
Rwanda reintroduces lockdown in parts of Kigali as…
A fresh surge in coronavirus cases prompted Rwanda’s government to place six areas of the capital, Kigali, back under a “total lockdown.” Kigali registered 21 new cases this month, the Ministry of Local Government said…
Gunmen kidnap 10 aid workers in Niger
Unidentified gunmen have abducted 10 humanitarian aid workers as they were distributing food in a village in southwestern Niger, their NGO said in a statement. Kadidiatou Harouna, of the Action and Impact Progress (APIS), said…
NEWS: DR Congo police clash protesters around parliament
Democratic Republic of Congo police fired tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday to repel hundreds of protesters whose rally against a proposed new law threatened to spill into the parliament compound in the capital…
Zimbabwe: Churches, chiefs join Covid-19 taskforce
Government has roped in other stakeholders such as churches and traditional leaders to sit on the Covid-19 taskforce as part of deliberate efforts to disseminate information about the pandemic to all Zimbabweans, Information, Publicity and…
Gambia denies plans to relax homosexuality laws
The Gambia said on Tuesday that it would neither decriminalise homosexuality nor review its laws, following weeks of controversy over the issue in the tiny West African state. In a statement, the government denied widely…
Nigeria: FG submits school reopening proposal to National…
The Federal Ministry of Education has presented to the National Assembly a detailed proposal on its plan to reopen schools across the country. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this on…
Ivory Coast nabs terrorist leader after deadly border…
Ivorian authorities on Monday announced the capture of a terrorist leader who led a deadly attack on a military post at Kafolo, on the northeastern border with Burkina Faso on June 11 following a large…
Nigeria: Oby Ezekwesili loses mother
A former presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria in the 2019 election and ex-Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has lost her mother, Mrs Cecilia Nwayiaka Ujubuonu. She was said to have died…
Ex-Tanzania minister to challenge Magufuli for ruling party…
A former Tanzanian foreign minister is set to challenge president John Magufuli, for the ruling party’s nomination for presidential candidate ahead of keenly awaited polls. Bernard Membe has asked the Central Committee of the governing…
Nile Dam: Egypt accuses Ethiopia of ‘warmongering’
Egypt has accused Ethiopia of ‘‘warmongering’‘ Sunday in dispute over the latter’s plan to start filing a huge newly-built hydroelectric dam on the River Nile. The Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry was responding to comments…
AU sanctions South Sudan over $9m membership debt
The African Union (AU) has suspended South Sudan from the continental body over failure to honour its financial obligations over the past three years. A letter from the country’s mission in Ethiopia to the Foreign…
South Africa: Pair arrested over R300 000 illicit…
Two people will appear before the Senwabarwana Magistrate’s Court, about 90km km northwest of the city Polokwane in Limpopo, on Monday 22 June in connection with possession of illegal cigarettes worth an estimated R307 000.…
Malian protesters continue mass rally demanding president quits
Malian opposition activists turned up in their thousands on Friday marching through the streets of the capital, Bamako, to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The massive response to the anti-government protest comes…
NEWS: Ghana is the fourth-highest country with confirmed…
The West African country's death toll also is 70 with 4,548 recoveries so far. But the country is also the fourth-highest in terms of COVID-19 cases recorded in Africa, according to the Africa Centres for…
NEWS: Forbes listed Nigerian pleads guilty to $11m…
On Thursday (June 18), a celebrated Nigerian entrepreneur held in the US since August 2019 on charges of computer and wire fraud, changed his not guilty plea to guilty, the US Department of Justice said…
NEWS: Masai cries for justice over unpaid dues…
Reigning Warsaw Marathon winner Gilbert Masai is crying for justice after losing over Sh200,000 to unscrupulous race organisers, who have declined to pay him all winning prizes. The Mount Elgon-born runner said he has been…
