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UNICEF has condemned an air strike by Ethiopian forces in the Tigray region which locals say hit a kindergarten called Red Kids Paradise, killing four people including two children, a claim that was denied by the federal government. The federal government denied the allegations saying the air force only targeted military sites and accused Tigray […]
The leader of the main opposition coalition has rejected the results of last week’s election in Angola in which the governing party claimed victory after the electoral commission put its vote at 51%. Joao Lourenco was returned for a second term as Angola’s president in elections that saw the Popular Movement for the Liberation of […]
The African Agricultural Transformation Initiative (AATI), Endowed with a budget of $19.6 million until 2025, has been launched to improve sustainable development in Africa by bridging the gap between the formulation of strategic agricultural initiatives and their successful implementation at local level, the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said in a press release. […]
Liberia regretted, on Saturday, the absence of Morocco from the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8) and called for “the suspension of this session until the resolution of the problems relating to the procedures”, following the unilateral invitation extended by Tunis to the Polisario separatist entity to this event. “Liberia expresses regret […]
The presence of the Polisario leader at a Japanese-African development conference was denounced by many African states that deplored the absence of Morocco, the second African investor in the continent. In this connection, the President of Guinea Bissau and current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Umaro Sissoco Embalo, left the […]
Sudan’s military leader, General Abdelfattah Al-Burhan, made Thursday changes in the army amid political and economic turmoil, Reuters reports. Al Burhan reshuffled the leadership of military’s land forces, operations, and supply heads as well as its general inspector. General Mohamed Osman Alhussein, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been kept in his position. […]
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia — the second largest international exporter after China — the prices of fertilizers in West Africa have skyrocketed, severely aggravating the ongoing food crisis in countries such as Burkina Faso. In the last few months, the Sahel region has been hit by the worst drought in over a […]
Markets will be re-opened and schools re-built along the shared border between Cameroon and Nigeria after the area was declared free of Boko Haram militants — this is the latest plan presented by governors from both countries. Governor of Nigeria’s Borno state, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday (25 August) said President Muhammadu Buhari instructed governors […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine have been pushing many electric grid utilities in Africa — which have long been strapped for cash — close to financial collapse, whereby this situation is in turn also slowing down the continent’s clean energy transition. Ghana’s electric grid is in dire straits. In the mid-2010s, […]
Somalia’s government will launch a “total war” against al-Qaida affiliated militant group al-Shabab following a recent deadly hotel siege in the capital Mogadishu staged by the group, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced in a televised speech on Tuesday (23 August). Mohamud said it is time to come together to defeat the enemy, adding that […]