Brussels Airlines has cancelled all flights to Liberia over a malfunctioning navigation system at the main airport in Monrovia. “It is of the utmost importance that we operate each and every flight in a safe, secure and compliant manner,” the Belgium-based airline said in a statement. It said all passengers affected by the cancellations will…
Tunisia’s government and the country’s main labour union (UGTT) struk a pay deal Thursday in the capital. The agreement involves a five percent annual hike to public sector wages every year until 2025. The breakthrough comes after arduous negotiations and a general strike observed in June. The purchasing power of Tunisians had eroded since the…
National Security Council makes fresh demand for immediate release of 46 soldiers. KIGALI, Rwanda Ivory Coast called Wednesday for an urgent summit of West African leaders over the continued detention of 46 of its soldiers in Mali. Mali’s transitional government arrested 49 Ivorian soldiers upon their arrival in the capital Bamako in July. Bamako accused…
Abdirahman Abdishakur sought to draw attention to the gravity of the crisis in Somalia in order to mobilise more aid. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said last week that Somalia is on the brink of famine for the second time in just over a decade. Abdishakur has repeated that there is still “a huge gap” between…
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15 (Reuters) – South Africa’s central bank will raise its key interest rate by 75 basis points next week to brake inflation, a Reuters poll found, adding another 25 basis points in each of the following two quarters before pausing for the rest of 2023. A majority of economists in a Sept. 7-14 poll, 12…
Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission has paid about $700,000 (£607,000) in compensation to victims of police brutality. Fifty-eight people, mainly family members of victims of rights violations, were awarded varying sums. It follows investigations into complaints by families of victims who accused the police of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, illegal arrest and prolonged detentions as…
In our series of letters from African writers, Tanzanian journalist Sammy Awami suggests that his country could see Kenya as its political role-model. Tanzanians have been peering into their neighbour’s compound – Kenya – with a mixture of admiration and envy following a successful election and this week’s transfer of power from President Uhuru Kenyatta…
On Wednesday, Yemenia Airways was found guilty of involuntary homicide over the 2009 crash off the Comoros islands which killed 152 passengers on board. A French court ordered the Yemeni airline to pay a 230,000$ fine to the families of 65 French citizens who died and the flight’s lone survivor. Bahia Bakari welcomed the decision.…
By KEMO CHAM Some people in Sierra Leone are unhappy with the Kenyan presidential inauguration on Tuesday, in which William Ruto took the oath of office as the country’s fifth head of State. Others, especially opposition supporters in the country on the southwest coast of West Africa, were amused by what they saw as the…
The Dutch government will reportedly apologise for its role in the slave trade with a R3.5 billion fund. The Dutch first settled in the Cape in 1642, and in 1658 imported slaves from Angola. By 1710, there were more slaves than the adult population of colonial masters. Numerous international news wires have reported that the Netherlands…