Under the beating Tanzanian sun, Lossim Lazzaro nervously looks over his farm. He slowly pours livestock manure on his crops, in a last-ditch attempt to help them grow. Mr Lazzaro owns five acres of land and was once a successful tomato farmer in the northern Arusha region. But now, like many others, he is battling…
General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, visited Al Fashaqa in the east of Sudan on Monday after Ethiopia killed seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian in the border area. The incident was the latest sign of deteriorating ties between the east African nations. A Sudanese military statement late Sunday described the killings…
Guinean Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui has met with political parties to ease tensions after the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) suspended its call for a demonstration that was due to be the first major protest rally under the now ruling junta. The FNDC had called for people to take to the…
People who hold the Zimbabwe Extension Permit are worried that they will not qualify for any of the “mainstream” visas that they now have to apply for. If they don’t fall into any of the very specific visa categories, they have to return to Zimbabwe, displacing an entire generation of children who have never set…
Separatists in the English-speaking areas of Cameroon are accused of raping, killing, and kidnapping civilians without fear of being reprimanded. At least 82 people were kidnapped, including 33 students and five teachers. Human Rights Watch wrote to separatist leaders about the grave human rights violations. There are concerns that separatist leaders in English-speaking areas of…
NAIROBI, June 26 (Reuters) – Efforts to draft an ambitious global agreement on halting nature loss ended Sunday with little progress made in the Nairobi negotiations, leaving limited time for brokering a biodiversity pact this year. About 1,000 negotiators from 150 countries were supposed to finalize a new draft agreement on protecting nature and wildlife, which would…
A Nigerian governor has ordered the issuing of licenses so citizens can carry guns to defend themselves against armed groups, a first among the measures drawn up to defeat gunmen blamed for the deaths of thousands in the West African country’s troubled northern region. Zamfara state Governor Bello Matawalle announced Sunday through the state commissioner…
At least 22 teenagers, the youngest possibly just 13, died at the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, in a tragedy whose cause remains unclear. Many are thought to have been students celebrating the end of their high-school exams on Saturday night, provincial officials said. Authorities say investigation into…
A trial began Sunday for an Egyptian man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a public street after she rejected his advances — a case that has sparked widespread outrage. A video went viral last week appearing to show the victim, identified as student Nayera Ashraf, being stabbed by a young man outside…
June 24 (Reuters) – South African state power company Eskom said on Friday that electricity cuts could intensify following labour protests at nine of its facilities linked to deadlocked wage talks. The utility, which has struggled to meet power demand in Africa’s most industrialised nation for over a decade, has been implementing rotational outages since…