President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Monday that a sample from Tanzania’s remote Kagera region tested positive for Marburg disease, validating World Health Organization (WHO) warnings from mid-January. While Tanzanian authorities initially denied the presence of Marburg after eight people in Kagera died from what WHO suspected to be the disease, subsequent investigations have now […]
The worsening ties between Algiers and Bamako unveiled a silently brewing crisis between Algeria and its main arms supplier Russia, which seeks to undermine the west in Africa using a panoply of soft and hard power measures. Algeria has for long claimed to be Russia’s “best friend” in Africa with President Tebboune calling Putin a […]
Lebanon Sunday garnered €250 million ($294.5 million) in pledges at a virtual international conference of donors, led by France’s President Emmanuel Macron. The conference was meant to help the Middle East country cope with the aftermath of last week deadly explosions at Beirut port. The conference was attended by a dozen of world leaders who, […]
