Mali: UN declares 20km ‘security zone’ around Kidal amidst clashes
The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali known as MINUSMA said it would establish a 20-kilometre “security zone” around the town of Kidal in restive northern […]
Month: August 2015
Sierra Leone: No new Ebola case in a week, WHO
The World Health Organization said on Monday that Sierra Leone has not recorded any new case of Ebola since last week; a first since the […]
South Sudan: Kiir fails to endorse peace plan on deadline
South Sudan’s president refused to sign a peace deal with the country’s main rebel leader, Riek Machar, by a Monday deadline set to end a […]
Stay off political crisis, ECOWAS to G. Bissau army
The West African nations on Sunday warned the army to stay out of Guinea Bissau’s constitutional crisis, saying only dialogue would end the standoff between […]
Darfur: UN helicopter accident, 8 injured
About eight people were seriously injured Sunday when a helicopter from the UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur made an emergency landing in the western Sudanese […]
Zimbambwe: Gov’t issues new labor regulations
President Robert Mugabe’s government last week published a bill seeking to amend the labor law to force employers to pay severance packages to workers fired […]
Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau claims he is still alive
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian Islamist militant organization Boko Haram, has refuted media reports that he had been killed or deposed as the […]
Egypt: Russia gives Egypt a Molniya missile ship
Egypt’s naval arsenal will be boosted by a Russian warship that Armed Forces Spokesman Mohamed Samir described in a post on social media as the […]
Cameroon: Refugees-locals relations growing difficult
The once easy and friendly relations between the local population in eastern Cameroon and the refugees from the Central African Republic are growing more and […]
CAR: Ban Ki-Moon fires UN peacekeeping chief
The U.N. chief has fired on Wednesday the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic after a fresh round of allegations of […]