Category: Africa

Thu 09 January 2019: (AFP) Sudan banned two newspapers and two television stations on Tuesday, saying they had received funding from the government of former President Omar al-Bashir who was ousted last year following protests. The decision was made by a committee tasked by Sudan’s transitional authorities with dismantling institutions linked to Bashir and his […]

Tue 07 January 2020: The United Nations (UN) special envoy to Libya on Monday said he was “angry” at foreign interference in the war-torn country, as the Security Council expressed concern at the recent escalation in fighting. “I am really angry to see that everybody wants to talk about Libya and very few people want […]

Wed 01 January 2019: Uganda deported on Tuesday legendary South African singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Yvonne Chaka Chaka hours ahead of a scheduled New Year concert performance in the capital Kampala. Ugandan police spokesman Fred Enanga said Chaka Chaka had entered the country on an ordinary visitor’s visa, but that she required a special […]

Wed 01 January 2020: Some 70,000 hectares of farmland in Somalia, Ethiopia already decimated by locust swarms Northern Kenya is facing looming starvation after a recent invasion by locusts that originated from neighboring Somalia, officials said Tuesday. Local authorities from the Wajir County Department of Agriculture told reporters that the locusts, coming from southern Somalia […]

Sat 28 December 2019: Ghana may be a divided nation on other issues but not on the controversial sexuality education which caused an uproar that stands out through the course of the last twelve months.The resistance against the planned introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) into the basic school curriculum is one of the top […]

Thu 26 December 2019: A YouTuber who criticised the Moroccan king has been given a prison sentence while a journalist-activist who defended anti-government protesters in a tweet has been detained. Freedom of speech advocates say the moves on Thursday reflect growing pressure against those who use social networks to express anger at economic and social […]

Thu 26 December 2019: Muslims in Ethiopia condemned the weekend torching of mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in the country. A demonstration on Tuesday in Jijjiga, a Muslim-dominated city in the east, urged an investigation into the arson attacks. Over the weekend, four mosques and a church were burned down by angry mobs and a clash […]

Tue 24 December 2019: France and five allied Sahel countries, including Mauritania, have reached a “turning point” in their fight against Islamist militants, President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday. “The coming weeks will be absolutely decisive in the fight we are waging against terrorism,” Macron said in the Niger capital Niamey, where he paid homage to […]

Mon 23 December 2019: Health officials in eastern Congo have documented the first relapse in the current Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has so far infected more than 3,300 people and killed more than 2,200 since the middle of last year, making it […]