Wed 21 October 2020: UN chief Guterres said violence was on the rise and internal displacement had increased 20-fold in less than two years International donors on Tuesday agreed to give €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) in aid to the central Sahel, which the UN said was close to ‘breaking point.’ Conditions in the sub-Saharan belt spanning […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: The governor of Lagos state has declared a 24-hour curfew across Nigeria’s biggest city to prevent protests sparked by police violence “degenerated into a monster”. The governor said “nobody except essential service providers and first responders must be found on the streets” as he declared the curfew in effect from 4pm […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has proposed new regulations to charge South Africans a TV licence for using streaming services like Netflix. The public broadcaster argued that the definition of a TV licence is oudated and needs to be ajusted to current realities. Deputy Communications Minister Pinky Kekana made the remarks in […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast during the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, academics said on Monday, largely supporting earlier findings that were questioned by both states. The prevalence of children doing hazardous work, including using sharp tools, has also gone up […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: France on Thursday officially handed over to the Moroccan authorities nearly 25,000 archaeological objects, which had been seized in France during three customs controls and which illustrate the “scourge” of looting of cultural property, according to officials. The artefacts were handed over in a ceremony held at the Museum of Civilizations […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: A staggering 12 million children missed up to four months of school across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger due to Covid-19 restrictions. Meanwhile, 776,000 children were prevented from attending school the entire year due to insecurity, new figures by the Norwegian Refugee Council have revealed. “Children are in the midst of […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: South Africa’s health minister and his wife tested positive for the novel coronavirus as cases continued to surge in the country. “I wish to inform the public that this afternoon my wife Dr. May Mkhize and I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Zweli Mkhize tweeted late Sunday. The top health official […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: A Tunisian MP is being investigated for allegedly attempting to justify the decapitation of a French teacher in a gruesome terror attack this week, reports DW. History teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded on Friday afternoon in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, about 30km northwest of Paris. Paty had conducted a class on freedom […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: A delegation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is meeting with officials in Sudan to discuss the arrest warrants currently in place in regards to the Darfur conflict. Chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and her team arrive in Sudan on Saturday and plan to discuss “ways of cooperation between the International Criminal […]
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Sat 17 October 2020: 12 candidates, including 2 women, are competing for top post in Sunday’s poll The elections will be held using a two-round system, with a second round triggered if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote in the first. In March 2020 a new Constitution was passed via a referendum […]
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