Former Chadian opposition figure Saleh Kebzabo says that the respect of “all freedoms” and “human rights in all their forms” will be part of the programme after his appointment by Chadian ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby as Prime Minister to lead a government of national union. Deby named Saleh Kebzabo, 75, a former journalist who ran…
It’s back-to-school time, but nine-year-old Zahra Hussein is doing chores at home. Like millions of Sudanese children, she had to leave school because her parents could not pay her school fees. In first grade, “I was the third in the class,” the girl proudly tells AFP in her home in the village of Ed Moussa,…
A suspected migrant trafficking boss was arrested in Ethiopia after two years on the run and has been extradited to face justice in Italy, Italian justice ministry sources said on Tuesday. Temesghen Ghebru Ghebremedhin, 35, is “considered a key member of a vast transnational organisation dedicated to smuggling migrants from North Africa to Europe”, one…
By NYABOGA KIAGE A Uganda Member of Parliament who was reported missing after taking a taxi in Nairobi, Kenya, is reported to be in Kampala. Just hours after media reports that he was reported missing when he boarded an Uber taxi from the Kilimani area on Sunday morning to the Nairobi City Centre, Bukigai County MP David Wakikona on…
By KITSEPILE NYATHI Rwandan President Paul Kagame has helped Zimbabwe secure $800 million for a rural electrification programme to help end the country’s perennial power shortages, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has disclosed. President Mnangagwa told a ruling Zanu PF party rally at the weekend that President Kagame will visit Zimbabwe this month to launch the project,…
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Emerging markets do not face a systemic sovereign debt crisis, though many poorer nations do face big challenges, Gita Gopinath, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) first deputy managing director told a panel in Washington on Tuesday. Speaking at an event during the annual IMF World Bank meeting, Gopinath said some 60% of…
By Teklemariam Bekit & Farouk Chothia BBC News Eritrean authorities have intensified military mobilisation and are hunting down draft dodgers across the country, as the war in neighbouring Ethiopia escalates, multiple Eritrean sources have told the BBC. The latest round-ups are the worst so far as women have not been spared, with many elderly mothers…
When Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup. Less than a week later she was dead. The infant is just one of 69 Gambian children to die of acute kidney failure since…
Mali’s junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita received a draft of a new constitution on Tuesday, a key part of the military’s bid to retain power in the crisis-hit country until 2024. The text of the “preliminary draft constitution” has not been made public and arrived two months after it was originally due, but the chair…
Leaders urge security forces to share information, strategies. DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania Kenya and Tanzania have agreed to step up their fight against cross-border terrorism and human trafficking, which have put their countries in a bad light internationally. “We have agreed to fight terrorism, drug and human trafficking, and the rest of the transboundary crimes…