Mon 05 October 2020: The number of coronavirus cases in Africa surpassed 1.5 million on Monday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said. At least 36,787 people have died while 1.2 million patients recovered across the continent, it said in its latest update. Southern Africa recorded 746,500 cases of which the share of […]
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Sun 04 October 2020: Sudanese protesters shut the Southern Port of Sudan on Sunday in protest of a recently-signed peace deal with rebel groups. On Saturday, the Sudanese transitional government signed a power-sharing deal with the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance of rebel groups, during a ceremony held in Juba, the capital of South […]
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Fri 02 October 2020: Sudan’s Islamic governmental authority on Thursday announced its opposition to Khartoum normalising ties with Israel. Local media reported that an Islamic Fatwa – a legal opinion based on Islamic law – was issued amid imminent reports that the two countries are due to sign agreements to establish normal relations, according to […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: New measures against corona virus require incoming passengers to hold negative test certificates Uganda resumed international commercial flights on Thursday roughly six months after closing due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, local media reported. Entebbe International Airport near the capital Kampala resumed commercial operations with six flights on the first day, […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: WHO Africa says no new cases detected in nearly 2 weeks, chief vows action against aid workers accused of sexual abuse YAOUNDE, Cameroon –The Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Equateur province appears to have slowed down, with no new confirmed cases detected since Sept. 18, […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: Approximately 90,000 works of African art are housed in French museums Five activists faced trial for trying to seize an African artwork from the Quai Branly Museum in Paris Seventh Arrondissement, the country’s reigning cultural institution for indigenous art. Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza headed the grabbing of an African funeral staff from […]
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Thu 01 October 2020: The report went on to warn that an additional 3 million people in the east African country “are expected to be Stressed Up to 2.1 million people in Somalia are expected to face an acute food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or even worse outcomes through December 2020, a new report […]
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Mon 28 September 2020: Cannabis becomes backbone of rural economy for unemployed youth MANZINI, Eswatini – Phosho Mamba, 17, endures the spring’s baking sun as he works on his small dagga, or marijuana, field. He toils hard to put food on the table. His parents are deceased and he was saddled with family responsibilities at […]
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Sun 27 September 2020: The rapes would occur when she would visit the neighbours house to play with her friend, the father said in an emotional video that surfaced online Sudan has recently witnessed a heinous rape crime sparking widespread anger across the country, as an eight-year-old girl was gang-raped by 14 people. After her […]
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Sun 27 September 2020: Burhan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a surprise meeting in Uganda earlier this year Sudan does not want to link its removal from a US “terrorism list” that is hindering access to foreign funding for the country’s economy with the normalisation of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok […]
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