When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took over in 2018 and freed dozens of jailed members of the media as part of a raft of political reforms, journalist Dessu Dulla rushed home from the Netherlands. The 45-year-old, now a deputy editor at a local...
Saudi Arabia is requiring all pilgrims for the scaled-back, annual Hajj in July to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In Tanzania, where vaccinations have not yet begun, Muslims hoping to go to Mecca are urging authorities to start jabbing.Omar Aboubakar,...
WASHINGTON D.C. May 27, 2021 –To help improve rural road access and employment opportunities, strengthen the learning environment and alignment of priority education programs with the labor market at selected higher education institutions, and increase...
Germany for the first time on Friday recognized it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation.Namibia on Friday welco...
MEC Madoda Sambatha commits the department budget to health infrastructure development across the provinceThe North West Department of Health MEC Madoda Sambatha has committed to health infrastructure improvement and maintenance during the tabling of t...
The United Nations issued an appeal Friday for the protection of civilians in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, amid reports of soldiers taking hundreds of people away from displacement camps in the region. “We reiterate our call on all parties to en...
Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, will host a media briefing to provide an update on the Tourism Equity Fund. The Fund was launched at the beginning of 2021 to drive transformation in tourism and to facilitate sector recovery during the ...
As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa on 28 May 2021 is 1 645 551, with 4 576 new cases reported over the past 24 hours.Testing DataThe number of tests conducted to date is 11535 429. Of these 39 802 tests were ...
