By AFP Egypt and Ethiopia agreed Thursday to finalise a deal over Ethiopia’s controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile within four months, a breakthrough after years of tensions between the two countries. The massive $4.2-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) has been at the centre of a regional dispute ever since Ethiopia broke ground on the project…
By Mercy Juma & Peter Ball in Adre, Chad BBC World Service Maalim is traumatised by what he saw in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, before he fled across the border to Chad. “If the people who I worked with know I have shown you these photos and videos, or even that I filmed them,…
By Africanews SUDAN Aid is running out to assist millions of internally-displaced people in Sudan. According to the UN, the conflict opposing government forces to paramilitary group, RSF, has led to the displacement of nearly three million people. “We need more care, and to be honest, the aid that used to come no longer reaches us, and…
By Africanews EGYPT Leaders from Sudan’s six neighbouring countries met in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, on Thursday for the most high-profile peace talks since conflict erupted across the north-eastern African country in mid-April. The meeting, hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, was attended by the leaders of Ethiopia, South Sudan, Chad, Eritrea, the Central African Republic and Libya. “We express our deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation…
Reuters | @SABCNews The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday said it was concerned about reports in Ghana that hundreds of citizens seeking refuge from an insurgency in neighbouring Burkina Faso were being deported. Burkina Faso is one of several West African countries fighting armed groups that took root in north Mali and have seized ground across the…
Vuyani NdabaReuters JOHANNESBURG, July 13 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Reserve Bank is expected to keep its repo rate unchanged next week as inflation has slowed markedly and will moderate further in coming months as past rate hikes filter through the economy, a Reuters poll of economists found on Thursday. In a survey conducted July 6-12, 12 of…
By NATION AFRICA A Zimbabwean court has disqualified a former minister from challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the August 23 election because he lives in exile. High Court Judge David Mangota ruled on Wednesday that Saviour Kasukuwere, who has been living in South Africa since the 2017 coup that toppled former ruler Robert Mugabe, was…
By AFP Egypt has invited war-torn Sudan’s neighbours for a summit Thursday to “stop the bloodshed”, the presidency said, with Ethiopia’s Premier Abiy Ahmed in Cairo despite tensions over a massive Nile River project. “Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed discussed ways to settle the crisis in Sudan,” Sisi’s spokesman announced late Wednesday…
Almost half of humanity lives in countries that spend more servicing interest on debt than health or education, UN says. Approximately 3.3 billion people – almost half of humanity – now live in countries that spend more money paying interest on their debts than on education or health, according to a new United Nations report. “Half our…
By Anthony Irungu & Cecilia Macaulay BBC News, Nairobi & London Fifty-three children were rushed to hospital in Nairobi after tear gas was thrown into their class by police during protests on Wednesday. Dr Aron Shikuku from Eagle Nursing Home hospital told the BBC the children were released after being treated. He said they had…