At least 55 people were killed overnight in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, the United Nations said on Monday, in potentially the worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years.The army and a local civil rights group blamed ...
The president of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, has said his government will soon import COVID-19 vaccines. This puts the region at odds with the national government, which has yet to approve any COVID vaccine. Opposition parties are...
In NumbersUS$ 24 million cash-based transfers made5,322 mt of food assistance distributedUS$ 143.3 million six months net funding requirements representing 45 percent of the total US$ 315.3 million for the next six months (April-September 2021)2.5 mill...
As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa on 30 May 2021 is 1 662 825, with 3 755 new cases reported over the past 24 hours.The number of tests conducted to date is 11 606 570. Of these 31 523 tests were conducted s...
Tens of thousands of people are fleeing from the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano and ongoing earthquakes. At least 31 people have died and 20,000 have lost their homes. T...
The World Health Organization is asking for 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for African countries to administer second doses to those who have received their first shot. After three weeks of declining rates of COVID-19 infections in Africa, the W...
Drones are providing life-saving care to women in remote parts of the southern African country, Botswana, who otherwise may die in childbirth, thanks to support from the United Nations. For women in Botswana, especially those living in remote communit...
Fellow South Africans,It has been some time since we last held a family meeting.When I last spoke to you, exactly two months ago, South Africa was recovering from a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections.Then, the number of new daily infections h...
Addis Ababa: A delegation of the National Liberation Front (NLF) party of Algeria, led by General Secretary of the party, Professor Abdelhakim Ben Mebarek, arrived in Addis Ababa this night to attend the second congress of Prosperity Party (PP), which...
Addis Ababa: The upcoming regular congress of the Prosperity Party (PP), Africa's largest political party, is drawing the attention of foreign party delegations from around the globe. This second congress of the young ruling party is generating substa...
New York: Former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted on 16 counts of bribery and corruption. The charges stemmed from his acceptance of gifts, including gold bars, cash, and a luxury car, in e...
Drug addicts in Thika seeking to reform will now get help locally following the completion and opening of the first rehab centre in Thika West Sub County. The rehabilitation centre has been built in the Ngoingwa area of Thika West Sub-County and is fu...
Geared towards having students graduate with higher educational degrees in the field of agriculture to build more knowledge-based capacity in the sector, the University of Seychelles (UniSey) signed an agreement with the University of Bologna, Italy, o...
