At least 750 pelicans found dead in Djoudj bird sanctuary near border with Mauritania, Senegal’s parks director says. Some 750 pelicans have been found dead in a UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Senegal that provides refuge for millions of migratory birds, the country’s parks director said. Rangers found the pelicans on January 23 in…
There are mixed feelings in Soweto as South Africa await rollout of covid-19 vaccination across the country. The Southern African nation is expecting its first batch of the jabs by the end of this month. Josephine Hlomuka is a peanut seller. The 82-year old said trust for the vaccine is simply not there. “I’m afraid,…
An ex-Central African Republic rebel leader is to appear for the first time before the International Criminal Court on Thursday. Mahamat Said Abdel Kani is facing war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. The ex-militia commander, was arrested in Bria region and handed over to the ICC on Sunday by officials in the Central African…
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the Middle East’s largest fish-farming project in Port Said this week. President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the first phase of the Al-Fayrouz fish-farming project, the Middle East’s largest fish farm located east of Port Said about 196km northeast of Cairo, on Saturday. The project is built on an area of 15,886 feddans…
Tunis Hundreds of anti-government protesters faced off against riot police outside the Tunisian parliament Tuesday as lawmakers inside confirmed a cabinet reshuffle amid growing unrest. Mired in a political and economic crisis worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, the North African country has been rocked by a wave of anger at a political class seen as…
United Nations The number of people in South Sudan in need of aid has jumped from 7.5 million last year to 8.3 million, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. The landlocked country has a total population of just over 11 million. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) blames years of conflict, climate…
Gulf Today Report A hundred militants were killed this month in a joint Franco-Malian offensive in the West African country’s lawless centre, the nation’s army said in a statement on Tuesday. “One hundred terrorists were neutralised, about 20 captured and several motorbikes and war equipment were seized” during the operation with France’s Barkhane force, which…
A decade after the uprising that overturned politics in Egypt, political prisoners are being targeted inside the country’s overcrowded prison system. Egypt’s prisons hold at least twice the number of people they were built for, with prisoners of conscience targeted by security forces and denied healthcare, according to Amnesty International. Prisoners of all kinds risk dying in…
The new year has come with good tidings for Africa despite the devastating economic effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on the global economy. On the first day of 2021, African countries officially opened their markets under the continental free trade agreement (FTA) for duty-free trading of goods and services across borders. Coincidentally, on the…
Ethiopia and Turkey should further strengthen bilateral relations through sports and other people-to-people engagements, officials with the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday. The remarks were made at an event organized to motivate and thank Turkish athletes who have been training in Ethiopia for nearly two months to qualify for the Tokyo…