They haven’t heard from their loved ones in nearly two decades, but the families of imprisoned journalists in Eritrea still hold out hope after authorities freed several prisoners after 26 years. ...
AFRICA
The Gado Refugee camp in Cameroon has become home to may escaping the increasing violence in the Central African Republic...
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu on Friday ordered schools to delay reopening by two weeks. Schools were due to open on January 18 but will now welcome back students on February 1 following Lungu’s directive....
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has raised the alarm over his security, claiming soldiers surrounded his home on Friday evening....
Dozens of Sudanese rallied in Khartoum on Thursday to demand the closure of illegal detention centres....
South Africans have called on their government to speed up processes to acquire covid-19 vaccine. The Southern African nation is battling a second wave of the virus largely due to the variants which scientists are currently studying....
The Gambia has recorded its first two cases of the highly infectious coronavirus variant first found in Britain, its health minister has said, in what appears to be the first confirmation of the variant’s presence in Africa....
Guinea’s Bintou Keita and South Africa’s Nicholas Fink Haysom, have officially been endorsed by the United Nations Security Council as per an official announcement on...
Uganda’s electoral commission says President Yoweri Museveni leads in Thursday’s election with results in from 29% of polling stations....
Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine said the country’s election had seen “widespread fraud and violence”, as votes trickled in Friday under an internet blackout....
As South Africa undergoes its second wave of the covid-19 pandemic, many locals seek solace in their religious faith to cope during this unprecedented global health crisis that has seen the country lose almost 36,000 lives with reports of around 1.2 million confirmed cases- accounting for 30% of all cases on the African continent....
Algeria will share its COVID-19 vaccine doses with Tunisia in the spirit of fraternity between the two countries, as confirmed by the Tuniisan Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi on Thursday....
Vote counting has begun in Uganda where citizens cast their ballots Thursday in a peaceful general election that will see a new president, members of the parliament, and local government representatives elected....
The Republic of Congo’s electoral commission has announced that the presidential election will take place on Mach 21....
ETHIOPIA has revealed that its military had killed three members of the Tigray region’s former ruling party, including former Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin....
MOZAMBIQUE has applied to access COVID-19 vaccines through the global vaccine distribution scheme co-led by the World Health Organization, giving it the option to buy doses for at least 20% of its population, President Filipe Nyusi has announced....
