Kalkidan Yibeltal BBC News Forces in the embattled northern Ethiopian region of Tigray say government forces and their allies have entered the strategic city of Shire, one of the biggest in the region, adding that they continue to engage in a “life and death struggle”. On Monday, the Ethiopian government said it intended to control…
Kenya’s Lake Turkana is expanding rapidly despite four failed rainy seasons, devastating the livelihoods of pastoralists hit by the effects of man-made climate change, reports BBC Newsnight’s Joe Inwood. As she sits on the parched, cracked earth that used to be her pasture, Anna Elibit is a woman living on the edge. Just a few…
In Abidjan Monday, former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo celebrated the first anniversary of his political group African People’s Party – Côte d’Ivoire. During a conference marking the occasion, the 77-year-old made a first official comment on the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers in Mali. They were arrested upon arrival in Bamako on July 10 and…
The pessimism often thrust on Africa denies its youth a chance to dream, when even a space-age future is possible. What will Africa look like by 2050? Will the present tale of missed opportunities persist? Or will the continent become a superpower securing a pole position in the new race to reach new frontiers of…
Abdalle Ahmed Mumin was jailed for 6 days on security-related charges. MOGADISHU, Somalia The secretary-general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) was released on bail Sunday after being arrested six days earlier on security-related charges. Abdalle Ahmed Mumin appeared before a court in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday after the country’s attorney general’s office charged…
Egypt has missed out on an additional $75 million in American military aid after a senior Democratic US senator blocked the funding over concerns about Cairo’s human rights record including holding political prisoners. Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, rejected an assessment offered by the US State Department to justify the aid,…
Namibia has joined the growing list of countries offering a digital nomad visa. If your income is around R37,000 per month, and you have a clean police record, you can apply. The cost of living in Namibia’s main cities is lower than in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Feel like becoming a digital nomad but don’t…
Oct 16 (Reuters) – OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais said on Sunday that the group, alongside other producers that form the OPEC+ alliance, took purely technical decisions and that oil output cuts were a pre-emptive measure. Speaking from Algeria, Ghais also said a slew of statements from producer nations in support of the Oct. 5 decision to cut oil output by…
Despite accounting for only 4% of the global carbon emissions, the impact of climate change disproportionately affects Africa and poses a considerable threat to human well-being and development on the continent. This is more so because many African countries depend on climate dependent sectors such as energy, tourism, water, and agriculture. According to the World…
Authorities in Ethiopia’s rebel-held Tigray region announced Sunday they would respect a ceasefire as fighting intensified in the country’s war-torn north, and the African Union called for an immediate truce. International concern is growing around the fate of Shire, a city of 100,000 people in northwest Tigray, where Ethiopian and Eritrean troops have launched a joint offensive and…