LUSAKA, April 25 (Reuters) – Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema thanked China on Monday for joining international efforts to help his country to restructure its debt after China committed to joining Zambia’s creditor committee at International Monetary Fund meetings last week. Meanwhile IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva welcomed the country’s economic reform progress, saying she had an “excellent meeting” with…
The medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says three people have been killed inside a hospital in Kreneik area in the Sudanese region of Darfur. The hospital´s pharmacy was also looted, it said in a statement. The victims included two medical workers. MSF teams were not present at the facility at the time of the…
The long-awaited first trial of the Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic opened on Monday but was immediately postponed to May 16. The court, known by its French acronym CPS, was set up in the capital Bangui seven years ago to prosecute war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in the…
Dozens of people have recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual attacks in a volatile county in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said Monday. The mission said it documented 72 civilian deaths between Feb. 17 and April 7 in Unity State’s Leer county. Among the victims was a…
Despite application of laws, creative industry complains of unabated copyright violations. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Amid rampant copyright infringements and low public awareness, Ethiopia is mulling further enhancements to its application of existing intellectual property rights (IPR) protection laws, according to an official. A member of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Horn of Africa nation…
Summary The French army released a drone footage it says shows people, believed to be Russian troops, staging a mass grave in a bid to accuse French troops of war crimes in the West African country. The development comes as France pulls its forces out of the country over disagreement with the junta regime. By…
Summary The two leaders agreed to push for regional peace and stability by jointly addressing the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of the East African Community. The talks came on the backdrop of last week’s meeting in Nairobi by the bloc’s Heads of State in which they agreed to set…
The death toll from an explosion at an illegal refinery in southern Nigeria has risen to over 100 after more people died from their injuries. The blast occurred late Friday at the illegal site between the southern oil states of Rivers and Imo, police said. “The death toll is now 110 from 80 as more…
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children living in Africa, succumb to malaria, an age-old mosquito-borne scourge. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 627,000 people died in 2020, an increase of 12 per cent from 2019, mainly due to “disturbances” in access to care linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Before 2020, steady…
Tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region Sunday killed 168 people, a local aid group said, one of the deadliest bouts of violence in the country in recent years. The fighting in West Darfur province comes as Sudan has been plunged into turmoil since a military coup last year. The takeover…