Category: Africa

Wed 21 August 2019: South Africa’s Equality Court on Wednesday restricted the display of the country’s old apartheid-era flag, ruling that its gratuitous use amounts to hate speech and racial discrimination. Judge Phineas Mojapelo said the ruling was not a complete ban, saying use of the flag is protected by law for artistic, academic, journalistic […]

Sun 18 August 2019: The U.N. mission in Libya has condemned airstrikes by the self-styled Libyan National Army on a militia-run airport west of the capital, Tripoli, saying the facility had no military targets. Last week, the Libyan force under commander Khalifa Haftar said it bombed the Zuwara airport because it allegedly housed Turkish-made drones […]

Fri 16 August 2019: Nigerian Shiite leader Ibrahim Zakzaky has left the Indian hospital where he arrived for treatment this week, the clinic said on Friday, while his office said he was heading home. Zakzaky was arrested in December 2015 after the Nigerian government stormed the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), resulting in approximately 350 deaths. The IMN […]

Thu 15 August 2019: Burundi has started vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Burundi has had no reported cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever, but the viral disease has been spreading in eastern Congo since […]

Image Illustrative Wed 14 August 2019: Mourners at a funeral of a 69-year-old man in Blinkwater village outside Giyani in Limpopo went on a rampage on Sunday when they discovered that his private parts were missing, Sowetan reported.  James Makhubele was reportedly believed to have died in a hit-and-run on August 3, but family members now […]

Mon 12 August 2019: It is only a few hours since Zimbabwe’s schools closed for month-long August holidays, and 13-year-old Tanyaradzwa is already milling outside a bar “doing business,” he says. He hawks cigarettes outside a dingy downtown bar in the capital, Harare, and for a fee, helps motorists find parking space. “I am not […]

Sun 11 August 2019: Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN’s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivalling a deadly Ebola outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. In its latest situation report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 5.7 million cases of […]

Sat 10 August 2019: A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed two United Nations’ staff on Saturday, several medical sources and the eastern military said.The U.N. is trying to broker a truce in the capital Tripoli, where the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) launched a surprise attack in April. A […]

Sat 10 August 2019: Inter-communal conflicts have become ‘national concern’, says Chadian president Chad’s President Idriss Deby has said at least 37 people were killed this week in intercommunal fighting in the country’s east. The violence broke out over three days in the province of Ouaddai, a strategic area for herder migration near the border […]