Tigray: Nearly 40% of the population in “extreme food shortage’’
Nearly 40 percent of the population is suffering from “extreme food shortages” in the war-torn Tigray region of Ethiopia, the World Food Programme (WFP) said […]
Articles by Steven Addamah
Kigali to reopen land border with Uganda closed since 2019
Rwanda’s Foreign Ministry announced Friday that the main border crossing with Uganda, closed since February 2019, will reopen on Jan. 31, formalizing a thaw in […]
Malawi: Partial government after the dismissal of the former team
Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera, bound by a campaign promise to root out state corruption, appointed a partial government on Wednesday night, after the surprise dismissal […]
Uganda: Parliamentarians deny funds to the army for the DRC mission
On Tuesday, the parliamentary budget committee blocked a request for military funding. The money was for the Ugandan army’s military operation in eastern Congo called […]
Nigerian government maintains fuel subsidies
Nigeria’s government has announced that it will once again abandon the removal of fuel subsidies, a hugely popular measure in Africa’s most populous country, a […]
Sudanese General Daglo “Hemetti” visited Ethiopia
Sudanese General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as “Hemetti”, was in Ethiopia last week-end. The deputy chairman of the Sovereign Base Council met with Ethiopian Prime […]
Liberia: 29 dead in a crowd movement at a religious rally
At least 29 people died Wednesday night in Liberia’s capital Monrovia in a mob attack during a christian religious rally at a soccer field, police […]
Ghana: At least 10 dead following an explosion in the west of the country
At least ten people died Thursday in an explosion in Apiate, a small township in western Ghana, officials said. Francis Abeiku Yankah, the Prestea-Huni Valley […]
Omicron Variant: Types of masks that are recommended
Is it better to wear an N95 mask or a cloth mask right now? Health experts suggest increasing protection against the highly contagious omicron variant […]
South Africa launches the continent’s first vaccine factory for Covid-19
South Africa, spearheading the fight for equal access to vaccines against Covid-19, launched Wednesday in Cape Town the continent’s first factory that will manufacture doses […]