President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasized the importance of creating practical solutions to help protect women against violence and abuse. It comes as the second Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Summit gets underway in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Ramaphosa was speaking on the sidelines of the summit. “The mere calling of a summit means that we all have got…
The number of people killed by two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has risen to at least 120 people, the health minister said on Monday. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for Saturday’s blasts, Somalia’s deadliest since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at…
By AGGREY MUTAMBO On March 27, 2020, Kenya’s police teargassed a crowd jostling for the ferry in Mombasa. They proceeded to round up people and beat them up for being outside during a nationwide curfew. Except this incident happened two hours before curfew time imposed by then President Uhuru Kenyatta at the height of the…
By Rachel Kibui Development organisations predict that up to 5 billion people will face water shortages by 2050 globally as the climate change bug continues to bite and the effects intensify. The Horn of Africa region is already highly affected by climate change and is facing the worst drought ever experienced in the last four…
A UN-backed court in the Central African Republic on Monday convicted three militiamen of crimes against humanity and handed them jail tng from 20 years to life. Issa Sallet Adoum, Ousman Yaouberms rangia and Tahir Mahamat were accused of taking part in an attack by the 3R armed group in May 2019 in which 46…
Imtiaz Fazel is the new Inspector-General of Intelligence. He starts his duties on Tuesday, 1 November. Last month, the National Assembly approved Fazel’s appointment after a series of interviews. President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Imtiaz Fazel as the Inspector-General of Intelligence, following Parliament’s approval, for a tenure of five years from Tuesday, 1 November. Last…
By Yusuf Akinpelu BBC News, Lagos By the time Ifeanyin Ashley returned home from work, floodwaters had swept through his bungalow which housed his wife, children, and parents in Ogbaru, in Nigeria’s south-eastern Anambra state, leaving his armchairs soaked and his bed covered in mud. Because the water had nearly reached knee level, he had…
By Nadia Colombe Gbane GHANA In a half hour address broadcasted on Sunday, Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo, addressed the nation to explain the raft of measures his government will be taking to see its way out of financial turmoil, including measures to support domestic production. Among these measures, Nana Akufo-Addo announced a 30% cut in…
By VALERIE KOGA The Ethiopia-Tigray peace talks taking place in South Africa should address the suffering of civilians in northern Ethiopia by leading to a deal to allow for humanitarian aid in the region and minimising civilian casualties in the war, a rights organisation has said. Amnesty International on Thursday said the African Union brokered…
By APOLINARI TAIRO Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu will go on a state visit to China next week, targeting to strengthen bilateral cooperation in key economic areas, mostly in agriculture, industrial development, trade and infrastructure. The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that President Suluhu’s visit will start on Wednesday November 2, 20220 to Friday November…