By Rédaction Africanews with AFP ETHIOPIA The Ethiopian government has imposed restrictions on three major cities in the country’s Amhara region, including the most populous, Gondar, in the wake of protests against the dismantling of regional military forces across Ethiopia. According to almost identical communiqués issued by the municipal authorities of Gondar, Dessie and Debre…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO In Kishishe, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23 rebel group reportedly left the village in early April. Still, inhabitants are haunted by a massacre that was perpetrated between November 21 and 30, 2022, when the armed group controlled the area. A witness of the massacre…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP BENIN The United States is preparing long-term assistance for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and Togo, threatened by an extension of jihadist violence from the Sahel to coastal regions of West Africa, officials of state security said. These officials claimed that Western support was also crucial to prevent the progression in the…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP SOUTH AFRICA 30 years after the assassination of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, many South Africans are still grief-stricken. The nation on Monday (Apr. 10) commemorated the activist. Speaking at a memorial ceremony, his widow Limpho Hani said she doesn’t “have closure.” The South African Communist Party (SACP), a long-time ally…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP ETHIOPIA The United Nations food relief agency is investigating the theft of food aid from lifesaving humanitarian operations in Ethiopia, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. The World Food Program’s Ethiopia director, Claude Jibidar, says in the letter that “WFP is very concerned about the large-scale sale…
A record number of developing nations are at risk of a debt crisis, with ballooning inflation escalating borrowing costs. United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push this week for urgent resolution of requests by Zambia and Ghana for restructuring of their sovereign debts, and moves to conclude a debt treatment for Sri Lanka, Treasury…
Hoosen Ebrahim | @SABCNews The leader of the official opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) president Velenkosi Hlabisa, says the provincial government has failed to effectively deal with the aftermath of last year’s floods. This week will mark the first anniversary of the floods that caused devastation in Durban and other parts of the…
Sophie Mokoena | @SABCNews South African authorities are ready to engage their counterparts in Tanzania in bringing back convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester, Doctor Nandipha Magudumana and Mozambican national Zacharia Alberto to the country. The authorities, who left South Africa yesterday, have arrived in Tanzania. Bester escaped from the Mangaung Correction Facility in Bloemfontein in May…
Reuters | @SABCNews At least 20 African migrants were missing on Saturday after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said, amidst a sharp rise in migrant boats from the North African country. The coast guard rescued 17 others off the southern city of Sfax from the same…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP TUNISIA Some 300 demonstrators from opposition parties waved Tunisian flags and carried signs with the images of detainees at the rally organised by the main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front. Since early February, authorities in the North African country have arrested more than 20 political opponents and personalities including…