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...
Zimbabwe Police Abduct Journalist, Arrest Politician
Harare, July 20 — Police in Zimbabwe on Monday stormed and broke into the home of Hopewell Chin’ono a top freelance journalist in the Zimbabwean capital Harare before they...
COVID-19 Takes A Toll On Women And Girls In Kenya’s Marginalized North
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Zimbabwe’s Cross Border Truck Drivers Smuggling COVID-19 Cases
Chirundu — Outside Chirundu border post which stands out at Chirundu, a border town between Zimbabwe and Zambia, a fleet of haulage trucks loaded to the brim with various...
Zimbabwe’s President Expels Health Minister Over Graft
Harare, July 7 — Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has eventually expelled the country’s Health Minister Obadiah Moyo after he was implicated in a 60 million USD corruption scandal related...
Coronavirus Forces Funeral Culture Rethink In Zimbabwe
Rusape, June 20 — Shingirai Manyengavana (25) opens a white coffin for people to pay their last respect inside a kitchen hut in Denhere Village, in Rusape, 174 kilometers...
Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) Rejects Targeting Of Refugees
Khartoum, June 25 — A delegation from the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) secretariat visited the Al-Sheqla camp in which a refugee from South Sudan was recently killed.
The delegation listened...
Landslide Victory For Opposition In Malawi’s Presidential Polls Re-run
Blantyre, June 28 — The opposition party has won fresh presidential election in Malawi, with a promise to root out corruption, describing it as the ‘biggest disease’ Malawi has...
U.S Expresses Concern Over Tanzania’s Newspaper Ban
Dar es Salaam, June 25 — The United States has expressed concern over recent actions by the government of Tanzania to revoke media license of an opposition party newspaper...
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,...
Researchers Tout Healthy Food Recipes To Boost Nutrition, Cut Costs In Tanzania’s Schools
MANYARA — The tolling of the afternoon bell marks the end of lessons at Babati Day Secondary School in Tanzania’s northern Manyara region.
It ushers in a moment of joy...
Looming Conflict As Loggers Scramble For Waning Forest
Mzuzu — Around 1964, Malawi’s first Head of State introduced an ambitious project to turn one of the mountain ranges in the country into a forest. What followed was...
Tanzanian Opposition Leader Arrested As Crackdown Mounts Ahead Of October Polls
Dar es Salaam, June 24 — A prominent Tanzanian opposition leader, Zitto Kabwe, and seven members of his party have been arrested after the police accused them of holding...
Chinese Miner Shoots Employees In Zimbabwe
Gweru, June 23 — A Chinese gold miner based in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province this week shot and injured two of his black Zimbabwean workers following a wage dispute before...
Sudanese Professionals Association With South Sudanese Activists Discuss Refugees’ Condition In Sudan
Khartoum, June 22 — In a meeting that gathered activists from South Sudan with the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) headquarters in Burri—Khartoum, a number of issues related to the...
Malawians Cast Fresh Votes Following ‘Unprecedented’ Court Decision
Lilongwe, June 23 — Hundreds of thousands of Malawians turned up in polling stations across the country to vote for the next president of the country after the country’s...
Zimbabwe’s Health Minister In Charge Despite Reports Of Expulsion
Harare, June 21 — Zimbabwe’s Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo who had been widely reported to have been fired after he was implicated in a 60 million USD corruption scandal...
The Government and Opposition In South Sudan Agreed On Allocation Of The States
Juba, June 17 — Nial Deng the Minister of Presidential Affairs, announced on Wednesday that the government of South Sudan agreed together with the armed opposition led by Dr....
Zimbabwe Relents, Gives Workers United States Dollars
Harare, June 17 — Clobbered into submission by simmering discontent among its civil servants, the Zimbabwean government today offered what it branded a COVID-19 allowance of 75 USD and...
Malawian Lawyers Match As Government Send Chief Justice On ‘Forced Leave’
Blantyre, June 17 — Hundreds of lawyers in Malawi took to the streets Wednesday in solidarity for the Chief Justice and a Justice of Appeal who were told to...
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