Zambians will decide Thursday whether to re-elect President Edgar Lungu after the country’s worst economic performance in decades and a crackdown on dissent that has raised fears of unrest in the southern African country. His main rival, in what polls suggest is a close election race, is 59-year-old Hakainde Hichilema, making his sixth run for…
Some 19,000 doctors across Nigeria are on strike for the fourth time since the start of the pandemic, with some of them complaining they haven’t been paid in months. The stoppage has left government-run hospitals and COVID-19 treatment centers short of staff. The latest strike comes as Nigeria confronts an avalanche of new COVID-19 cases…
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The United Nations has condemned the practice of child marriage in Zimbabwe following the death of a 14-year-old girl after she gave birth at a church shrine, an incident that caused outrage among citizens and rights activists. Key points : Police and the country’s state gender commission are investigating the circumstances that led to the…
More than half a million Tunisians received vaccinations on Sunday as part of a national campaign to control the outbreak of Covid-19 after the country received more than 6 million vaccine doses from Western and Arab countries. The slow pace of vaccinations and the handling of the pandemic caused a wave of protests against the…
The Rwandan military says its forces and Mozambican troops have retaken Mocímboa da Praia, a key port city from Islamist militants in northern Mozambique Mocímboa da Praia located in Cabo Delgado province, was the rebels’ last stronghold and home to one of Africa’s biggest gas fields. The insurgents have not yet commented but the news…
One of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants more than seven years ago is free and has been reunited with her family, a state governor’s office said on Saturday. Nearly 300 schoolgirls, most aged between 12 and 17, were abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014 from Chibok in northeast Nigeria, sparking an…
When the spokesperson for the Rwandan Defence Force, Colonel Ronald Rwivanga, held a press conference to detail his troops’ actions against insurgents in Mozambique’s embattled Cabo Delgado, it marked a shift in the nearly four-year conflict. A joint press conference with the foreign ministry would be nothing out of the ordinary for a conflict situation,…
Africa reached a new peak in the number of Covid-19 fatalities this week, said the World Health Organisation. It shows no sign of decreasing, with more cases recorded than in earlier peaks. More than half of African countries are experiencing a third wave. The first week of August saw more than 6 400 deaths from…
WAD EL HILU, Sudan (AP) — From time to time, a body floating down the river separating Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region from Sudan was a silent reminder of a war conducted in the shadows. But in recent days, the corpses became a flow. Bloated, drained of color from their journey, the bodies were often mutilated: genitals severed,…