Situmbeko Musokotwane faces the daunting task of pulling country out of a protracted debt crisis, prioritises IMF talks. Zambia’s new Finance Minister, Situmbeko Musokotwane, has said in an interview that it was critical to agree to a lending programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) because it would give creditors confidence and the government cheaper…
Authorities in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara have banned some economic activities in a bid to tackle armed criminal gangs carrying out killings, kidnappings for ransom and cattle theft. The state government has announced the closure of all weekly markets and restricted the use of motorbikes from dusk to dawn. It has also banned…
Ethiopia’s 10-month internal war has come at a huge human cost, with thousands killed, millions displaced and many in desperate need of assistance. But that’s not the only damage being done to Africa’s second most populous nation – the war has incurred a huge economic cost, too, that could take years to repair. In the…
The Senegalese renowned mediator Alioune Badara Cissé who helped broker a peace deal during the recent violent protest died in Dakar on Saturday the 28. As Mediator of the Republic, he called on President Macky Sall to speak out, to listen to Senegalese youth and warned against an escalation of violence when thousands of youths…
South Sudan security forces have arrested seven people, including a top religious figure, a civil society organisation said Saturday, as rights groups warn of a widening crackdown on critics in the East African nation. The arrests, which police denied, come ahead of planned nationwide protests organised by the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA), which…
Many people in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution that launched the Arab Spring, see President Kais Saied’s power grab as a necessary evil. But there are also fears that last month’s dismissal of parliament, sacking of the prime minister and Saied’s assumption of sweeping powers may bring Tunisia one step closer to…
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday arrested dozens of suspected users and dealers of a newly popular drug known as bombe, made partly with residues from car exhaust pipes. Following a demand for action last week from President Felix Tshisekedi, officers paraded almost 100 people accused of using or dealing drugs at…
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, who was from 2017 to 2019 the Prime Minister of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, overthrown a year ago by a coup d’état, was jailed on Thursday in a case of alleged fraud, announced his lawyer, Kassoum Tapo. Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, 67, is a political heavyweight in Mali and has also served as…
A young Guinean woman who tested positive for the Ebola virus in Ivory Coast after arriving there two weeks ago has recovered from the disease, the Ivorian health ministry said Tuesday. “We performed on the patient two biological tests which were negative in an interval of 48 hours. She is therefore declared cured,” Serge Eholie,…
Dozens of students at an Islamic seminary in western Nigeria who were abducted nearly three months ago and six of whom died in captivity have been freed, the school’s principal announced Thursday. On May 30, about 200 heavily armed men invaded the town of Tegina, in Niger State (western Nigeria), and kidnapped 136 students from…