Category: Africa

Turkish embassies in Africa rises from 12 to 42, Erodgan says Sat 19 October 2019: Cooperation between Africa, Turkey in various fields strengthens, number of mutual visits increases, says Turkish President Turkish President praised Saturday high level cooperation between Turkey and Africa in various fields. “As a result of our efforts, we have brought up […]

Children twice as likely to live in extreme poverty than adults, UN Secretary says Fri 18 October 2019: UN estimates poverty rate for children twice as high as for adults; 663 million children suffer from poverty Children are more than twice as likely to live in extreme poverty than adults, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said […]

Women in Ethiopia trapped in cycle of abuse Wed 16 October 2019: National survey says 35% of married women suffer sexual or emotional abuse It is spring in Ethiopia. The capital Addis Ababa is relishing a bright sunny morning. But a fenced villa which hosts women who have suffered domestic abuse hides behind its walls […]

Sat 12 October 2019: A veteran Supreme Court judge has been confirmed as Sudan’s new chief of the judiciary, becoming the first ever woman to hold the position.  Neemat Abdullah Kheir was appointed as chief of the judiciary by the 11-member ruling sovereign council, the official SUNA news agency reported. The sovereign council also appointed Taj Al-Sir Ali as […]

Thu 10 October 2019: Egypt denounced Ethiopia on Wednesday for moving forward with building and operating a hydropower dam on the Nile, which Cairo worries will threaten already scarce water supplies. Ethiopia, the source of the Blue Nile which joins the White Nile in Khartoum and runs on to Egypt, says the dam will not […]

Tue 08 October 2019: Six broadcast stations in Uganda risk having their licences revoked after an investigation by the industry regulator found that they breached broadcasting standards while covering events that followed the arrest of pop star and presidential aspirant Bobi Wine. The politician’s supporters held demonstrations in April in the capital, Kampala, after he […]

Sat 05 October 2019: In Turkana county, Northern Kenya, one of the driest places in East and Central Africa, thousands of children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Though frail-looking, two-year-old Charlene Ngipuo falls just short of the malnourishment mark and in the green zone. “For this one, she is almost malnourished but right now she […]

Fri 04 October 2019: South Africa’s president on Thursday said “early warning mechanisms” will be put in place to avoid the kind of deadly attacks on foreigners that angered many African countries and led to an extraordinary airlift of Nigerians, while Nigeria’s visiting leader again condemned such violence as “unacceptable.” What originally was planned as […]

Wed 02 October 2019: At least 25 Malian soldiers were killed and 60 others have been missing after a suspected al-Qaeda-linked attack targeted two army camps in central Mali on Monday, the government said. “Among the ranks of the FAMA (Malian armed forces) the provisional death toll is 25, with four wounded — around 60 […]