Summary Mr Daniel Motaung, a former content moderator for the social media platform, claims he was fired for trying to organise a trade union with his 100 co-workers in the Nairobi office to protest what they felt were exploitative working conditions. His lawyers on Tuesday wrote a demand letter to Meta and a San Francisco-based…
‘We believe that if you support women, you support society,’ says Turkish envoy JUBA, South Sudan The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has donated work equipment to disadvantaged women in South Sudan to help them earn a better living. TIKA donated sewing machines and chemicals for making soap to the Women for Change organization…
Eight people have been killed when a helicopter operated by the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) went down in the country’s restive east, in an area where there has been fighting this week between rebels and the Congolese army. The mission, known as MONUSCO, did not state the cause…
Desmond Chinaza Muokwudo, a 30-year-old Nigerian student who has recently fled Ukraine, spent 11 years saving up for an education in Europe. Once a pipeline welder from Anambra state, he dreamt of studying international relations – but he struggled with unemployment amid a recession in 2016. It was only after his parents decided to sell…
Tunisian president Kais Saied has condemned attempts at holding what he described as “illegal” meetings of parliament suspended since last July. The assembly’s speaker, Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, has called for a plenary session on Wednesday to discuss Saied’s “exceptional measures” imposed since July. TSpeaking ahead of the meeting, the president…
At least seven people died in Nigeria after gunmen attacked a busy train linking Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, and Kaduna city hospital. The gunmen mined the track forcing the train, carrying 970 passengers, to a stop on Monday evening. The attackers opened fire on the train and abducted an unknown number of passengers. This is the…
Following its invasion of Ukraine, countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) imposed comprehensive sanctions on Russia in a bid to cripple its ability to participate meaningfully in the global economy. These included exclusion from the Bank for International Settlements, including SWIFT which facilitates cross-border money transfers messaging. The wide-ranging sanctions could have serious implications for Africa. Importantly, they…
Three weeks after being suspended at the defence lawyers’ request, the trial of the alleged killers of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara has resumed in Ouagadougou. The lawyers of the accused plead, for the most part, the statute of limitations and find the evidence on file to be insufficient. The trial of Thomas Sankara’s…
It is the second train attack since October in Nigeria, as bandits continue to wreak havoc in parts of the north. Suspected bandits have attacked a passenger train headed to the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna from the capital Abuja after they trapped the train, the state government said. Passenger Anas Iro Danmusa posted on…
Food prices are climbing sharply in Algeria, where shoppers say cooking oil and milk are so scarce that you need to butter up shopkeepers to get any. The impact of measures to deal with first the coronavirus pandemic and now the war in Ukraine is making life hard for consumers. “It feels like buying drugs,”…