The police in Katsina State in synergy with the Nigerian Army have repelled coordinated bandits attack on Tsaskiya community of Safana Local Government Area of the state and killed five suspected bandits. The spokesman of the state police command, Gambo Isah, in a statement issued to journalists on Wednesday, said the bandits were on revenge…
Tanzanians began voting on Wednesday morning to elect their president and members of parliament. The outgoing head of state John Magufuli, nicknamed the “bulldozer”, faces main opponent Tundu Lissu, who has been able to reinvigorate the opposition, largely stifled during the last five-years. On the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, the situation had become clearly tense…
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Security officers among the dead following last week’s disputed elections, state TV reports, as country remains tense. Nearly two dozen people have been killed in violence that erupted following a disputed presidential election in Guinea last week, state television reported on Monday, as international envoys attempted to soothe tensions in the West African nation. The…
Ministers from the three countries to hold videoconference brokered by the African Union on Tuesday, Khartoum says. Sudan has said it will hold three-way talks on Tuesday with Egypt and Ethiopia over a controversial Nile dam project that US President Donald Trump has warned could lead to military action. Foreign and irrigation ministers from the…
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“I have nothing left to feed my nine children.” Ethiopia’s farmers battle worst locust invasion in 25 years. Ethiopia’s worst locust invasion in 25 years has devastated the country’s farmland, threatening food supplies and the livelihoods of millions of people, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The insects damaged about 200,000 hectares…
At least eight children killed, a dozen wounded after attackers stormed a school in Cameroon with guns and machetes. At least eight children were killed and a dozen wounded after attackers stormed a school in southwestern Cameroon with guns and machetes, the United Nations says. The men arrived on motorbikes dressed in civilian clothes and…
On this exciting edition of Business Africa, we celebrate entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo. Plus, we discuss ways of recovering from the Coronavirus. – Covid-inspired digitalization in Africa – Over the last 20 years, internet penetration in sub-Saharan Africa has grown tenfold, according to a survey by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).…
Libya’s two rival factions signed a “permanent” ceasefire agreement Friday after five days of talks at the United Nations, which hailed the move as a moment that will go down in history. “Today is a good day for the Libyan people,” said Stephanie Williams, the UN’s envoy to the troubled North African country, where a…