Lockdown hammers Zimbabwe’s cross border traders
HARARE, April 19 — Zimbabwe’s 21 days of lockdown to save the country from further infections from coronavirus have hammered the country’s cross-border traders who operate from this country...
Sudanese Parties Signed Agreement in Juba
Juba, August 17 — The Sudanese government together with Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North/Revolutionary Front signed the security arrangements protocol at the Pyramids Hotel in the capital of South Sudan—Juba.
The...
Rights violations trending in Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe’s Rural Township In Worsening Dereliction
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Feared Zimbabwe Regime Dishes TV Broadcasting Licenses
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Continued Floods In East Africa Threatening To Jeopardize Fight Against COVID-19 Spread
BUDALANGI April 5, 2020 — For 54-year-old Esther Anyango, who resides in Maduwa village nestled in the swampy Yala, an island within the Lake Victoria waters is not her...
Ghana’s Quest For A National Cathedral Has An Immoral Foundation
The burning cross of the Ku Klux Klan registers starkly as I think about Ghana’s National Cathedral project. What was meant to be a symbol of faith and morality...
Africa’s Telecommunication Professionals Hold Virtual Preparatory Meeting Ahead Of World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC)...
Nairobi, Kenya October 13 — Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia will host this year’s World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-21), the first of such conferences to be held in the African...
Kenyan Blood Banks Run Dry Amid COVID-19
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Military Takeovers A Reminder Of Africa’s Ailing Ballot Democracies
On February 12, most of Ghana woke up to the news that one Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a figurehead of one of the West African country’s most significant protest movements, had...
Nigeria Sees Rising Coronavirus Cases But Fears Of Underreporting Linger
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The Voices Of The Forgotten Population In Rural Kenya During COVID-19
Every morning, a harmonious voice crosses the airwaves and finally lands in the countryside of Kajiongo village in Tharaka Nithi county. Here it meets people shut from modernization, and...
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For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
Could tree regeneration hold out hope for Africa’s vulnerable smallholder farmers?
Homa Bay, Kenya MARCH 4, 2020 — With more than half of the estimated 2.2 billion people to be added to the global population by 2050 expected to be...
President Kenyatta Launches Port Of Lamu Amid Uproar From Environmentalists In Coastal Kenya
Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta on the 3rd week of May inaugurated the Lamu Port that seeks to link the Indian Ocean to the ambitious regional project, the Lamu Port...
Tanzanian Opposition Leader Suffers Broken Leg After Midnight Attack
Dar es Salaam, June 9 — The leader of Tanzania opposition in the parliament and national chairman of the country’s main opposition party Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA),...
Kenyan Health Workers In The Pandemic Dance To Ease Their Minds
When Kenya recorded a first COVID-19 case in March, the government announced the closure of learning institutions in the country and eventually picked a few of them to be...
Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister Succumbs To COVID-19
Harare, July 29 — Zimbabwe’s Minister of Agriculture, Perrance Shiri has succumbed to the novel Coronavirus at the age of 65, becoming the first government minister to be claimed...
Former Government Minister Jailed In Zimbabwe
Gweru, September 22 — Former Provincial Minister for Midlands Province in Zimbabwe was this Tuesday sentenced to four years in jail following accusations of criminal abuse of office, this after he...
Confusion Over South Sudanese Students’ Funds in Morocco
Juba, June 24 — In a leaked official document dated 22nd June 2020 signed by Director General for Administration and Finance in the South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
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