South Sudan is one of the countries with the lowest rate of vaccination against Covid-19 in the world – just 0.8% of the population have had one dose and 0.3% both jabs. It shows the stark inequality in vaccine distribution, as some developed nations are now administering a third booster shot and vaccinating children as…
President Kais Saied on Thursday accused unnamed politicians of using refuge overseas to “plot” against the state, implicitly targeting one of his predecessors based in France. “Tunisia is a free and independent state and there can be no interference in its affairs,” he said at the first meeting of a new cabinet following his July…
Authorities in English-speaking western Cameroon appealed for calm on Thursday after a policeman killed a schoolgirl in the troubled region and was lynched by an angry mob. The incident took place in Buea, a hotspot city in a region where anglophone separatists and government forces in the French-majority nation have been locked in bitter four-year-old…
Kenyan distance runner Agnes Tirop, a two-times World Championship bronze medallist, was found stabbed to death at her home, Athletics Kenya said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old represented Kenya in the 5,000m event at the Tokyo Olympics and finished fourth in the finals. “Tirop was found dead at their home in Iten after she was allegedly stabbed by her husband.…
France has begun to withdraw troops from its northernmost Malian bases, part of plans to reorganise its forces deployed in the restive Sahel region under “Operation Barkhane”. French army bases in Kidal, Tessalit and Timbuktu, in the north of the country, will be closed by the end of the year and handed over to the Malian army. While…
A man who confessed to killing more than 10 children in Kenya has escaped from police cells in Nairobi. Masten Wanjala was due to appear in court on Wednesday over the murders of at least 14 boys in the capital, and areas of eastern and western Kenya. Police say they noticed he had disappeared during…
Authorities in Nigeria have announced that government workers who have not received Covid-19 jabs will not be allowed into their offices from December. This effectively makes covid vaccines mandatory for federal civil servants across the country – a policy the government has been considering for several months. Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on Covid-19…
The “Conakry Express” train, which connects the Guinean capital to its suburbs with thousands of people transported per day, resumed its rotations this week after ten months of stop, according to a journalist of the AFP and the national railway company. Thousands of people had boarded the train on Wednesday morning at its departure in…
Emigration consultants in South Africa saw a rush of enquiries from Indian people after the July unrest. One, who specialises in moves to Canada, expects Indian clients to hit 40% of his total by the end of the year. Female-headed households are looking to exit South Africa, as are many extended families with cash or…
The powerful younger brother of deposed late Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for “obstructing the course of justice”, the official APS news agency reported. President Bouteflika was forced to resign in the face of mass protests against his bid for a fifth term in office in 2019, and died in September…