By Catherine Byaruhanga Africa correspondent, BBC News New images taken from space at night starkly show how the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has left a population facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Cities are shown fading to black over 20 months as electricity supplies are shut down. The Nasa satellite photos…
A Nairobi-based green transport company unveiled Wednesday an electric bus. Nairobi is referred to as the ‘Green City in the Sun’ because of lush parks surrounding the east African capital. Roam, a Kenyan-Swedish company now wants that epithet to also refer to the city’s environmentally friendly mobility. It unveiled Wednesday an electric bus in a city…
The United Nations has warned the famine in Somalia could get worse, and about R36 billion in funding is needed. There have been four successive failures in its rainy seasons, and there are concerns about a fifth failure. About half the population, or 7.8 million people, are affected by the drought. Somalia faces famine on…
Oct 18 (Reuters) – South Africa’s state-owned logistics company Transnet on Tuesday said its freight rail and port operations were returning to normal service after a 12-day strike that throttled commodities exports and impacted Africa’s most industrialised economy. Transnet agreed a three-year wage deal with majority labour union United Transport and Allied Trade Union (UNTU) on Monday, paving the…
Mali’s foreign affairs minister on Tuesday said the military government would exercise its right to self-defence if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council briefing on Mali in New York, Minister Abdoulaye Diop repeated allegations that France had violated its airspace and delivered arms to Islamist militants that have been waging an offensive in northern…
By Farouk Chothia & Teklemariam Bekit Hyenas scavenging on the corpses of villagers, cities and towns hit in air strikes, elderly men and young women conscripted into armies – these are the horrific accounts emerging from a war that has left tens, if not hundreds, of thousands dead in Ethiopia’s historic region of Tigray. The…
Morocco signed a “green partnership” deal with the European Union in Rabat, Tuesday (Oct 18). The two parties hope the agreement will bolster cooperation on renewable energy. Morocco’s top diplomat Nasser Bourita welcomed Tuesday the EU Commission deputy head Frans Timmermans. The statesmen officially launched in Rabat, the European Union and Moroccan “green partnership” deal…
Andrea ShalalReuters WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund staff on Monday reached a staff-level agreement with Somalia that will allow the release of about $10 million to the East African country, once approved by the board, the head of the IMF mission told Reuters. IMF mission chief Laura Jaramillo said the deal came after an…
Johannesburg residents are contending with water outages. Water tankers were dispatched to feed severely affected areas. A tanker driver said he was emotional after seeing how the situation was affecting residents. “What we are seeing is emotional. It is something that shouldn’t have happened.” These are the words of a water tanker driver operating in…
A crackdown by authorities in Zimbabwe to support the local currency and fight inflation has increased the use of US dollars in the economy, according to the country’s oldest brokerage. “Ironically the authorities’ clampdown on Zimbabwe dollar payments created such a squeeze that it has had the unintended consequence of driving dollarization at a faster…