BRUSSELS, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s leader challenged Europeans on Thursday to remember there are “human beings on the other side” in Africa who have been left behind in the unequal global response to COVID-19. By the start of February, only 11% of Africans were fully vaccinated against the coronavirus – far fewer than in richer…
KEY POINTS Two-day summit opens on Thursday, postponed from 2020 EU facing Chinese competition for influence in Africa EU-Africa ties were strained by pandemic, vaccine supplies EU earmarks funds to help set up African Medicines Agency BRUSSELS, Feb 17 (Reuters) – The EU welcomed more than 40 African leaders to Brussels on Thursday in an effort to reassert…
Investigations show infection is linked to a strain circulating in Pakistan’s Sindh province as WHO sends assistance. Malawi has declared an outbreak of polio after a young child in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, developed the disease in the first case of the wild polio virus in Africa in more than five years. The strain found…
Sudan has seen weeks of large pro-democracy protests against a military coup that ousted the civilian transitional government last October. More than 80 people have been killed in rallies, with many of them dying from gunshot wounds, medical groups say. Sudanese security forces have repeatedly denied using live ammunition against peaceful protesters. Sudan’s women, who…
Operation come hours after al-Shabaab bomb blasts in Mogadishu. MOGADISHU, Somalia Peacekeeping forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) conducted an operation late Wednesday against the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group, killing over 20 terrorists, local media reported. The operation took place in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. AMISOM carried out the operation hours after…
102 people died last year in West African country due to Lassa epidemic. ABUJA, Nigeria Nigeria has recorded 59 deaths since Jan. 3 from an outbreak of Lassa fever, authorities said Wednesday. In a statement, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Nigerian agency responsible for the management of disease outbreaks, said 19 people…
Campaigners say over 80,000 Maasai would be evicted as government reviews multiple land use laws. LOLIONDO, Tanzania In a desperate bid to curb increasing human activities at one of UNESCO’s cultural heritage sites, authorities in Tanzania are planning to review a controversial law allowing a multiple land use system in the northern Ngorongoro Conservation Area…
With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world’s 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to become the continent’s lingua franca. “It’s high time we move from the coloniser’s language.” This is not part of a…
French president Emmanuel Macron hosted on Wednesday African partners in the Sahel region ahead of the African Union European Union Summit. French President Emmanuel Macron kicked off his African week on Wednesday. Ahead of the AU-EU summit, he hosted at the Elysée palace African counterparts such as Senegalese President Macky Sall or Ghanéan Nana Akufo-Addo.…
Victims include children, women killed using machetes, arrows. KIGALI, Rwanda At least 17 civilians, including five children, were killed Tuesday in the latest attack in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a crisis mapping monitor. “The early morning attack happened in Djugu territory in Ituri province. Militiamen from the Cooperative for the Development of…