The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
Burkina Faso: Army kills 20 terrorists close to…
Security forces in Burkina Faso killed 20 terrorists in a clash near the border with Niger, the army said Wednesday. In a statement, the General Staff of the Armed Forces said an army patrol in…
Egypt presses on with new capital in the…
While Egypt’s economy has stumbled due to the coronavirus outbreak, construction at a new capital taking shape east of Cairo is continuing at full throttle after a short pause to adjust working practices, officials say.…
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…
South Africa reports resurgence of African swine fever
South Africa has detected cases of African Swine Fever in the Eastern Cape Province. The presence of the disease in the country was confirmed by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Thoko Didiza. The…
Seven dead, three injured on Kisumu-Busia road
Seven people including a child died on the spot on Monday in a road accident involving a lorry ferrying sugarcane and two other vehicles on the Kisumu-Busia highway. Kisumu county police commander Ransom Lolmondoni said…
S. Africa deports 900 undocumented migrants
More than 900 undocumented migrants from Southern African countries were deported to their original nations last week, said a South African official on Monday. Bongani Bongo, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs of…
IED attack kills three Chadian peacekeepers in Mali
The United Nations said three peacekeepers from Chad were killed and four others seriously injured Sunday in attacks against a U.N. convoy in northern Mali using improvised explosive devices. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Secretary-General…
Falling fuel price could push inflation to 17-year…
Falling fuel prices and collapsing demand are likely to outweigh the effects of a weaker rand, and could push consumer inflation towards 17-year lows, according to investment bank BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas sees inflation averaging…
Zimbabwe Records ZERO New COVID-19 Cases On 10…
The Ministry of Health and Child Care didi not a single COVID-19 positive case on all 270 rapid screening tests and 279 PCR tests conducted in Harare on Sunday. Therefore, the total number of confirmed…
Breaking: President says one person infected 533 with…
A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana's Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a broadcast late on Sunday. Ghana's…
Attacks on aid workers spike in C.African Republic
A UN humanitarian affairs body in the Central African Republic has condemned increasing attacks on civilians and humanitarian organizations in the northeastern part of the country. In a statement published late on Saturday, the UN…
Ethiopia admits shooting down Kenyan plane
Ethiopia has admitted that they shot down on Monday a Kenyan plane carrying humanitarian and medical supplies, killing all six people onboard. In a statement to the African Union, the Ethiopian military said they interpreted…
DR Congo: Deadly landslide infuriates residents near Goma
At least one child died and two others missing in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo following a landslide. The deceased child was said to have died of suffocation while two…
COVID-19 could linger for years, African govts must…
The coronavirus pandemic has been confirmed in over 180 countries globally since it was first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it…
Kenya set to turn herbal medicine to treat…
Kenya has identified some herbal medicines likely to treat and could possibly cure Coronavirus. The front-runner is a herbal product developed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute to treat herpes simplex, a common viral disease…
South African wine exports to resume as lockdown…
South Africa will allow all agricultural exports including wine and wool to resume under new lockdown regulations. The country will move to a national alert level 4 from Friday after five weeks of a strict…
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…
Uganda restricts trucks on busy route to curb…
Uganda has stepped up restrictions on trucks passing through its territory – limiting them to one driver and banning them from stopping over in hotels – in a bid to curb the spread of the…
