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A high-level U.N. conference has raised less than $1 billion of the more than $5 billion organizers were hoping for to help over 30 million people in the Horn of Africa cope with a major climate crisis and mass displacement after years of conflict, a major disappointment to aid agencies. The U.N. appealed for $7 […]
Reports have shown that Europe dumps about 90 percent of their used clothes in Africa and Asia. Recent data has shown that a whopping 90 percent of used clothes and textile waste from European countries have been making its way to Africa and Asia through exports. This concerning trend, brought to light by the European […]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has made another formal referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure the court will focus on the alleged systematic pillaging of its natural resources in the country’s east by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and the M23 rebel group. “The government of the DRC remains deeply concerned […]
The United Kingdom is set to announce new restrictions to ban foreign students from bringing family over to Britain. According to a report by The Sun UK, all masters students and many other post graduates will be banned from bringing family over. The ban will not apply to PhD students, whose courses usually last between […]
An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 10 people in South Africa’s most populous province of Gauteng, health authorities have said. According to reports, at least 95 people have since last Monday visited hospitals showing cholera symptoms in Hammanskraal, an area north of the capital, Pretoria. Lab tests on Sunday confirmed at least 19 […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday inaugurate the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote refinery located at the Lekki free zone near Lagos. The pipeline infrastructure at the refinery is said to be the largest in the world with 1,100 kilometres and will handle 3 billion standard cubic foot of gas per day. The inauguration of […]
Cameroon has celebrated its National Unity Day. The celebration is being held today May 21. The country has been celebrating 51 years as a unified nation with a military and civilian parade on National Unity Day in its capital Yaounde. For all but 10 of those years it has been ruled by just one man, […]
Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners from overcrowded jails. This comes under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails. About 800 prisoners were released on Friday from the Central Prison and Chikurubi Maximum Prison in the capital, Harare. Jails in other parts of the country began […]
Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan has sacked his deputy and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo in a symbolic gesture. The two served as chairman and deputy of the ruling Sovereign Council respectively after a military coup in October 2021. But tensions between them erupted into an unprecedented battle in […]
The World Bank has moved $150m of the funds it has earmarked for Mozambique projects to help fund the southern African nation’s efforts to recover from the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy. One of the deadliest storms to hit the continent in the last two decades, Freddy ripped through Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar, first in late […]
The United Nations office has warned of a potential risk of famine in the northeastern part of Nigeria. At least $396 million is urgently needed to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in northeast Nigeria from turning into a “real disaster”, the United Nations office in the country said on Thursday. “We are ringing the alarm […]
Uganda’s foreign minister has held a top-level meeting with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov over the Ukraine black sea grain deal. In the meeting which took place in Moscow on Thursday, Jeje Odongo told a joint news conference that he had urged parties involved to consider the plight of “many African countries, who depend on grain for […]
The United States has imposed visa bans on disruptors of the recent general elections in Nigeria. This was confirmed in a statement on the US State Department website. Secretary of State Antony Binken said, “the United States is committed to supporting and advancing democracy in Nigeria and around the world.” Blinken clarified that the visa […]
A convoy of the United States embassy staff has come under fire in southeast Nigeria, during attack that killed two employees and two police officers. Gunmen also kidnapped three individuals – two other police officers and a driver – during the attack on Tuesday near the town of Atani in Nigeria’s Anambra State. A rescue […]
The commander of South Africa’s ground forces has visited Moscow for talks with Russian counterparts just days after Washington accused South Africa of secretly providing arms to Russia. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said on Monday that the meeting was “planned well in advance” as part of “a long-standing arrangement” and was a […]
Nigerian chef, Hilda Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, made a historic feat on Monday when she broke the Guinness World Record for longest cooking time by an individual. As of 11:22am on Monday, Baci has cooked for 91 hours and 21 minutes to surpass the previous record set by an Indian chef, Lata Tondon […]
Ghana’s largest opposition party has chosen the country’s former president, John Dramani Mahama, as its flag bearer for the 2024 presidential election. Delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) voted in primaries over the weekend to choose a candidate for both the presidential and parliamentary polls. Mahama was declared the overwhelming winner after polling 98.9 […]
Mali’s interim military government has rejected a United Nations human rights office report on the alleged execution of at least 500 people by Malian soldiers and unidentified foreign fighters during an operation last year. The ruling junta was responding to a report released on Friday after a months-long investigation into what rights groups described as […]
Two graduate students have been won the annual scholarship of Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. According the statement released by the school, the two winners will receive the prestigious annual Hesburgh Global Fellowship simultaneously. The statement unveiled that Haleemah Ahmad, who graduates in May 2023 with a master’s in […]
The Gambian President, Adama Barrow, has reiterated commitment to transform the Gambia. President Barrow expressed the commitment while presiding over opening of the Stakeholder’s Conference and Donor Roundtable on implementing the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission recommendation at the SKDJ conference centre in Bijilo on Friday May 12, 2023. According to a statement signed on […]