New swarms of locusts in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya are spreading further in the eastern Africa region, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned....
AFRICA
The health authorities in Mozambique have said that samples collected to ascertain the presence of the new coronavirus variant have tested negative....
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera says he is saddened by statistics showing a recent spike in coronavirus infections in the country....
Cameroon authorities say more than 250 foreign workers, most of them Chinese, have fled post-election violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) to the border town of Garoua Boulay. ...
There are eleven candidates running for president in Uganda's January election but just one, Nancy Kalembe is a woman. ...
In light of a spike in COVID-19 cases in South Africa which authorities attribute to widespread holiday trips, the country will close the twenty remaining open land border posts with neighboring countries for general entries and departures until February 15....
A Uganda army serviceman on Monday fatally shot 4 people and injured several others before he was killed by security forces....
The International Monetary Fund’s executive board announced Monday it had approved the disbursement of $487.5 million to Angola, which is suffering from low oil prices due to the coronavirus pandemic....
Thursday's municipal elections in several regions of western Libya served as a test of the authorities ability to organize general elections in anticipation of the national vote scheduled for December in the hopes of bringing Libya out of chaos....
Facebook’s head of communication for sub-Saharan Africa, Kezia Anim-Addo, says the social media platform has shut down dozens of accounts aligned to Uganda’s ruling party and party of President Yoweri Museveni, National Resistance Movement (NRM)....
The United States on Sunday began the process of establishing a consulate in Western Sahara a disputed and divided former Spanish colony....
Rwanda has launched its largest treatment centre for Covid-19 patients, which is expected to provide relief for overwhelmed hospitals across the country....
Former minister and one of the main opposition leaders in Côte d'Ivoire Abdallah Mabri Toikeusse finally resurfaced on Sunday following his two-month disappearing act that many speculate came about in light of the charges for "conspiracy against the authority of the state" brought against him in November....
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR says it has continued to register new refugee arrivals at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border....
The Seychelles on Sunday began its vaccination campaign against the new coronavirus....
Mai-Mai militiamen attacked the Virunga National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday....
