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...
At least 18 people were killed and dozens more were injured this week in two days of intercommunal clashes in South Sudan’s Warrap state, according to local authorities.Gogrial East County Commissioner Ayom Bul said armed men from Unity state crossed i...
In NumbersUS$ 5.0 million six-month (May – October 2021) net funding requirementsOperational UpdatesZambezi Farmers’ Market Day WFPNamibia held its 2021 first quarterly performance review in Katima Mulilo, Zambezi Region from 26-28 April 2021. The main...
Nigerian authorities confirmed that at least 60 people have died in a boat accident on the Niger River and that 83 missing passengers are also feared dead.The boat with more than 160 passengers, including many children and women, sank after hitting an ...
Authorities in Cameroon are clearing the streets in the capital, Yaounde, of more than 300 psychiatric patients whom officials say have been abandoned...
Kenya's western city of Kisumu has surpassed the capital, Nairobi, as having the country's highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infections. The jump in cases comes a day after an opposition leader addressed large crowds in Kisumu, which also reported K...
Media release by Premier Winde on the zero rating of the EVDS on the Western Cape Government’s public Wi-Fi hotspots“Vaccine registration on the EVDS is now zero-rated on the Western Cape Government’s public Wi-Fi hotspots”The Western Cape Government h...
MURANG'A: Learners at Karimamwaro Primary School in Kandara Sub County, Murang'a County, are set to benefit from a Sh30 million infrastructure project commissioned by the M-Pesa Foundation. The project includes the renovation of six classrooms, the co...
PRETORIA: Angolan President João Lourenço and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa convened in Pretoria on Thursday to discuss and strengthen cooperative relations between their respective nations. This meeting marks the beginning of President Lour...
GARISSA: Garissa Governor Nathif Jama has called on the youth in the region to seek technical education to equip themselves with skills necessary for self-employment, highlighting the dwindling availability of white-collar jobs. Speaking during the Ja...
MOGADISHU— Nine people including a senior local government official were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing in southern Somalia claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group, police and witnesses said.The attack occurred outside the administrative off...
Efforts to rescue a five-year-old continued Friday in Morocco, three days after he fell into a well near the northern city of Chefchaouen.Local media reported the boy’s father said he had been repairing the 32-meter well near his home Tuesday when his ...
MOGADISHU— A Jubba Airways passenger plane crash-landed at Somalia’s Aden Abdulle International Airport on Monday.The plane on a domestic flight from Baidoa town, 240km southwest of Mogadishu, was landing on the seafront runway when it slid and caught ...
