At least one person was killed and dozens wounded in latest pro-democracy protests in tiny southern African kingdom. Southern African countries have deployed envoys to Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland to try to stem the unrest that saw one person killed and at least 80 people wounded by security forces in the latest wave of…
The Covid pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at the WHO, said it meant the Covid crisis could “easily drag on deep into 2022”. Less than 5% of…
Cameroon’s five-year conflict could be taking a significant new turn with reports that its English-speaking separatist groups are getting help from an armed group in neighbouring Nigeria. After two attacks by Anglophone militants which cost the lives of 15 Cameroonian soldiers last month, the army issued a statement declaring that “the separatists have used heavy…
Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him. Most do not fully understand the language, but this small Nigerian community claims Jewish…
Egypt will bar unvaccinated public service workers from entering government buildings from mid next month. A cabinet notice on Sunday said workers would have to be vaccinated or take a weekly Covid test to be allowed into government buildings from 15 November. The cabinet also allowed the opening up of bathrooms in mosques from Wednesday.…
A tribute march was organized on Sunday in Paris for the 60th anniversary of the bloody police crackdown on a protest by Algerians in the French capital, during the final year of their country’s independence war with its colonial power. Human rights and anti-racism groups and Algerian associations in France joined in the protest march,…
The former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo on Sunday launched a new political party, the African People’s Party’s congress,(PPA-CI) which marked his return to the forefront of the political scene, after ten years of absence. Gbagbo was elected the head of the PPA-CI by some 1,600 delegates on Saturday night as he seeks to “reunite the…
The former Cape Verdean Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves, won the presidential election in the first round on Sunday in this archipelago cited as an example of democratic success in West Africa, according to provisional results published on an official website. Mr. Neves, 61, a member of the African Party for the Independence of Cape…
WASHINGTON — Kenya is a major African player on the world geopolitical stage — as evidenced by U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to meet with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday, Biden’s first in-person talks with an African leader since becoming president. “The U.S.-Kenya strategic partnership is essential,” Biden said, as the two leaders sat…
A record seven candidates are running, with two former prime ministers – Carlos Veiga and José Maria Neves – seen as the strongest contenders. Voters in the island nation of Cape Verde are set to cast ballots on Sunday to elect the country’s next president. The polls mark the end of the second and last…