By Rédaction Africanews and Lauriane Noëlle Vofo Kana with AFP – AP DRC CRISIS Pope Francis on Wednesday (Feb. 1) celebrated Mass for about 1 million people, invited Congo’s people to forgive those who committed “inhuman violence” against them, and then heard first-hand of the atrocities some of them have endured. During the intimate encounter…
By AFP K’elafo Mohammed Hassan Gureh has made up his mind: he’s going to sell the last of his goats and leave his village to find a new life. Like many herders in the east of Ethiopia, he has been forced to give up his nomadic existence after seeing his livestock decimated by drought. The…
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Somalia is gathering neighbouring countries in a bid to work on a concerted policy against Al-Shabaab militants, the first such meeting under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Kenya’s President William Ruto, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Djibouti’s Ismael Ghuelleh were expected in Mogadishu anytime from Wednesday for a high-level summit amid tight…
By PATRICK ILUNGA Pope Francis on Tuesday criticised those he said have been keen on stifling progress in Africa, and especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo, telling the rich world that the people in the continent are more precious than the minerals in the earth beneath them. Speaking shortly after he arrived in Kinshasa,…
Akshat Rathi Over the past year more than 1 000 people in Malawi have died of cholera. The disease is endemic to the country, but the outbreak took more lives than in the past, and climate change is partly to blame. Malawi and other countries last year, were hit by cyclones and storms found to…
More and more, the global community is waking up to scientific research from our continent. It has had global ripple effect, shifting the narrative from research about Africa and Africans, to research by Africans for Africans and the rest of the world, writes Wim de Villiers. To thrive in the South African higher education sector takes…
Elliot SmithCNBC KEY POINTS Yellen met with South African officials including President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, just days after the country’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor stood alongside Lavrov and vowed to strengthen bilateral relations between Pretoria and Moscow. In the backdrop of Yellen’s trip is Washington’s concern about its waning influence on a continent that…
Text by : NEWS WIRES | Video by : Seema GUPTA Up to a million people are tipped to celebrate a papal mass in DR Congo’s capital on Wednesday, on the second day of Pope Francis’ visit to the conflict-torn country. Tens of thousands of worshippers had already begun to flock to Kinshasa’s N’Dolo airport…
By Nduka OrjinmoBBC News, Rivers state There is a rhythm to the frenzy in this tailoring shop in the heartland of Nigeria’s oil zone. The whirring of four electric sewing machines, snips from two industrial-sized scissors and the sizzle of moist fabric as steam billows from a large pressing iron. But another sounds jars as…
By MOHAMMED MOMOH Abuja Burdened by the electioneering peak ahead of national elections, Nigerians are in anguish and frustration caused by an acute shortage of petrol and new banknotes as well as erratic electricity supply. Long queues at filling stations have been the norm in the last two months but the scarcity of the new…