By Naomi Grimley & Camilla Horrox BBC News, Accra The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries from poorer nations is “out of control”, according to the head of one of the world’s biggest nursing groups. The comments come as the BBC finds evidence of how Ghana’s health system is struggling due to the “brain-drain”. Many…
By Africanews ANGOLA The president of Angola, João Lourenço, has welcomed the Portuguese president, António Costa, in the capital, Luanda, on Monday. Ministers from both countries signed a total of 13 agreements ranging from financial to legal. “I have to say that we sensed a great willingness to collaborate on the part of the Portuguese justice system, with whom we were able to…
By Africanews SOUTH AFRICA South Africa-based American explorer and scientist Lee Berger announced the discovery for the first time of a non-human species that uses symbols to mark their dead. On Monday the scientist announced that he had proof that between 200,000 and 300,000 BC, Homo Naledi, a species with a brain the size of a chimpanzee’s, buried its dead and engraved symbols…
Anait MiridzhanianReuters JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Reuters) – South African private sector economic activity contracted for a third consecutive month in May as rolling power cuts and inflationary pressures continued to weigh on business, a survey showed on Monday. The S&P Global South Africa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 47.9 in May, the lowest level since July…
By SAM MEDNICK DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world’s fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data. Figures released last month showed more than 2…
Bissau-Guineans voted Sunday in a highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature, more than a year after the West African nation’s president dissolved parliament. Text by : NEWS WIRES Nearly 1 million voters were registered to elect more than 100 lawmakers from six parties with active seats in the National People’s Assembly, according to…
Reuters | @SABCNews Senegal’s government has cut access to mobile internet services in certain areas because of deadly rioting in which “hateful and subversive” messages have been posted online, it said in a statement on Sunday. The West African country has been rocked by three days of violent protests in which 16 people have died, one of its deadliest…
Sophie Mokoena | @SABCNews The Department of Human Settlements will attend the second United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday morning. The Assembly aims to, among others, find solutions to eradicating informal settlements by urbanising cities and improving the lives of those living in poverty. 193 UN member states will be represented at the Assembly.…
By Africanews SENEGAL Calm has returned to the streets of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, following 72 hours of violence. Clashes erupted on Thursday in the wake of the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail. On Saturday, authorities said that 500 people had been arrested since Thursday. “The security forces were faced with violent demonstrators, who were not seeking to express opinions,…
Christian Akorlie and Maxwell Akalaare AdombilaReuters ACCRA, June 1 (Reuters) – Ghanaian labour unions have asked the government for time to assess a proposal presented on Thursday to restructure pension funds worth around 30 billion Ghanaian cedis ($2.7 billion). The West African nation is looking to extend the maturity periods of cedi currency bonds that the pension…