According to Mali’s government, a Malian woman has given birth to nine babies, joining a small group of mothers of nonuplets. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, fascinated the country and attracted the attention of its leaders. When doctors in [...]
At least 30 people were killed by gunmen in eastern Burkina Faso as rebels burned down villagers’ homes and shot them as they tried to escape. The attack occurred in Kodyel village in the Komandjari province on Monday near the [...]
The future of transportation appears to be electric. More and more people across the globe are opting for electric vehicles and the industry is undeniably on a positive trajectory. According to the International Energy Agency, the number of electric cars, [...]
A Sudanese minister has warned that his country could take legal action against Ethiopia if the latter goes ahead with plans to fill a mega-dam on the Blue Nile without first reaching a deal with Khartoum and Cairo. In a [...]
News of Chadian President Idriss Deby’s shock death met tributes and condolences as world powers mourned the passing of an ally seen as critical in the fight against security threats in the Sahel region. In a statement on Tuesday Chad’s [...]
The Chadian army said on Monday it had killed 300 rebels who waged a major incursion into the north of the country eight days ago, adding that it had lost five of its soldiers. A heavily armed rebel group launched [...]
On March 24, Kenya’s government demanded that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announce a clear timetable for closing the country’s, and Africa’s, two largest refugee camps – the Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border and the [...]
Almost one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique where a worsening conflict has driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, the United Nations agency has warned. ISIL-linked fighters last month attacked Palma, a town in the gas-rich [...]
Votes are being counted in Chad following a presidential election in which incumbent Idriss Deby is widely expected to extend his 30-year rule despite growing signs of popular discontent and criticism over his handling of oil wealth. Election officials began counting ballots [...]
Suleiman Wanjau Bilali, one of Kenya’s finest boxers with medals at international events, has been in and out of rehabilitation centres three times because of his alcohol addiction and depression since he was sacked from his job in 2012. Bilali [...]
Border clashes between Ethiopia’s Afar and Somali regions have killed at least 100 people, a regional official said, in the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June. About 100 civilians, many of them herders, were killed since [...]
Eritrean forces have started withdrawing from Ethiopia’s Tigray region in the north after fighting on the government’s side in a war against the region’s fugitive leaders from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The United States, Germany, France and other [...]
The United Nations mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has said four peacekeepers were killed and several others wounded in an attack on its base in the northern town of Aguelhok. Peacekeepers repelled the attack on the camp that was carried out [...]
Witnesses said on Wednesday that gunmen killed at least 30 civilians in an attack on a village in the Ethiopian region of Oromia, the latest outbreak of ethnic violence to challenge the federal government. Farmer Wossen Andaege, 50, said his [...]
The dusty buses keep coming, dozens a day, mattresses, chairs and baskets piled on top. They stop at schools hurriedly turned into camps, disgorging families who describe fleeing from ethnic Amhara militia in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Four months after the [...]
International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has said its staff witnessed Ethiopian soldiers killing “at least four” civilians in the country’s embattled Tigray region. In a statement, the organisation said three staff members had been [...]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has admitted for the first time that troops from neighbouring Eritrea entered the northern region of Tigray during the conflict that broke out five months ago, suggesting they may have been involved in abuses against [...]
Attackers on motorbikes have raided several villages in southwestern Niger, killing at least 137 people in the bloodiest violence to hit the country in years, the government said. The gunmen on Sunday attacked the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Wistane, [...]
On Tuesday, the government said armed men in southwestern Niger have killed at least 58 people when they intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly market and attacked a nearby village. The attacks on Monday occurred in the Tillabery region, [...]
At least a dozen villagers have been killed in an overnight raid on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a witness and monitoring and civil rights groups, in an attack blamed on the notorious [...]
On Sunday, Thione Seck, one of Senegal’s biggest music stars over the last 40 years, died at the age of 66 in the capital Dakar, his lawyer said. “He died this morning of an illness at the Fann hospital,” lawyer [...]
He replaces Ahmad of Madagascar who is currently serving a reduced ban for financial misconduct. Motsepe was elected the continent’s football boss at CAF’s General Assembly which took place in Rabat, Morocco today (Friday). The 59-years-old billionaire becomes the first [...]
Facebook has shut a slew of accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of elections Thursday, the internet giant told AFP on Monday. After a tense and bloody campaign, the East African nation [...]
Mali’s former President, Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for a decade before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday. “Amadou Toumani Toure died during [...]
Hundreds of Nigerians based in South Africa will on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 gather for a peaceful march to the United Nations Office in Pretoria. The demonstration is being held in solidarity with youth back home in Nigeria to denounce [...]
The founder of Loveworld Ministries a.k.a Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has blasted Africans who call themselves black. He also condemned the Black Lives Matter movement, IgbereTV reports. Pastor Chris during a telecast to his members, stated that black means [...]
South Africa’s self-proclaimed king of nudity Beau Brummell dies Beau Brummell, who opened SA’s first nudist resort and once went on national TV naked, has died. His daughter, Cheyanne Bush, posted on Facebook that her father had died at 2am [...]
Kenya on World Environment Day barred all single-use plastics such as water bottles and straws from its national parks, beaches, forests and other protected areas. The implementation of the ban, first announced a year ago, was ordered in a letter [...]
NANYUKI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s endangered wildlife at risk: The armed rangers set off at dusk in pursuit of poachers. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new alertness, and a new fear. With tourists gone and their money, too, protecting [...]
MEDICAL experts in the country, including pharmacists, nurses and laboratory scientists, have opposed the plan by the Federal Government to import a herbal tonic, COVID-Organics (CVO), from Madagascar for the treatment of coronavirus patients in Nigeria. Pharmacists under the aegis [...]
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