Category: Africa

Heavy Flooding Devastates Lives and Economies in Horn of Africa Sun 03 November 2019: United Nations and private agencies are scaling up life-saving humanitarian operations in response to severe flooding across large parts of the Horn of Africa.   Massive flooding following months of unusually heavy rainfall is wreaking havoc in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan […]

  Sun 03 November 2019: Seven Russian mercenaries have been killed by ISIS-linked militants in Mozambique – including four who were shot and then beheaded. The Russians, fighting for the shadowy state-affiliated Wagner Group, were killed in two separate attacks last month, according to sources in the Mozambique military. Both attacks were ambushes in Mozambique’s northern Cabo […]

African Leaders Call on Arab Investors to Rival Chinese, Russians Fri 01 November 2019: Leaders of three African countries said that Saudi Arabia could play a pivotal role in the process of transformation and development in the Dark Continent, pointing to the great historical links with the Arab world and the Kingdom in particular. Speaking […]

Humankind’s ancestral ‘homeland’ pinpointed in Botswana Tue 29 October 2019: A large ancient wetlands region spanning northern Botswana – once teeming with life but now dominated by desert and salt flats – may represent the ancestral homeland of all of the 7.7 billion people on Earth today, researchers said on Monday. Their study, guided by […]

Four Burundian journalists charged with undermining state security Mon 28 October 2019: Four Burundian journalists arrested this week were charged on Saturday with undermining state security, an editor at their newspaper tweeted, as Burundi’s government clamps down on journalists and human rights groups ahead of elections in 2020. The journalists from domestic news website Iwacu […]

US sanctions Zimbabwean state security minister Sat 26 October 2019: The US has sanctioned Zimbabwe’s state security minister over alleged human rights abuses, just hours after Zimbabwe’s government defiantly marked its first Anti-Sanctions public holiday. State Security Minister Owen Ncube, a close ally of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is banned from entering the US. The […]

UN study on why people illegally migrate from Africa Thu 24 October 2019: More than 90% of African migrants who embark on the perilous and sometimes fatal journey to Europe in search of a better life would do it again to escape poverty and the uncertain future in their countries of birth. A landmark UN […]

Mon 21 October 2019: At least 30 people were killed and several others injured in a bus accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said. The accident occurred on Sunday in the western Mbanza-Ngungu city. Vital Kamerhe, chief of staff of the country’s president said at least 30 people were killed and 16 others […]