The embattled Tigray region’s capital is suffering food and fuel shortages as the Ethiopian government blockades continue. Once a bustling city with a viable commercial economy, now there is barely any fuel for transport and shortages of food and other goods in the market have driven prices up beyond the reach of most residents. Only…
Among its 210 million residents, oil-rich Nigeria has a wealth of upcoming contemporary art collectors. ArtX founder Tokini Peterside launched the project introduce collectors in Nigeria to other markets. Today, bout 30 art galleries from across the world came to show off their best pieces at the ArtX fair in Lagos. Nigeria’s elite sipped champagne…
Botswana is moving ahead to ring-fence business activities for locals. The protected list has 21 business crafts, ranging from bread and confectionery to furniture. An economics lecturer believes taxing foreigners more could work better than blocking them. “It’s tough out here. But going home is not an option, I will stick around if they enforce…
At least 26 killed, 13 others injured after classrooms made out of straw were engulfed in a blaze in Maradi city. At least 26 schoolchildren have been killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger a local governor told the AFP news agency. “Right now,…
For 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali – one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as a motos. Recently, he switched his usual ride for getting around Rwanda’s capital for one of the first electric motorbikes on the African continent. “In the first days, things…
The bodies of dozens of more than 100 victims killed during an explosion in Sierra Leone last week were buried in a mass ceremony on Monday in Waterloo. The coffins were transported in military trucks from the morgue in the capital Freetown to the cemetery in Waterloo, a neighboring city. The trucks passed by the…
More than 20 children were killed and dozens injured when a fire broke out in a school in Niger’s second-largest city on Monday morning, according to authorities in Maradi. Three school classrooms made with straw were consumed by the fire, killing children aged between three and eight, local media reported. The cause of the fire…
The West African regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday hardened its stance against military-ruled Mali and Guinea, imposing new individual sanctions and calling on both countries to honour timetables for a return to democracy. The Economic Community of West African States “has decided to sanction all those implicated in the delay” in organising elections set for February 27…
Sierra Leone declares three days of mourning as the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion rises to 101. Freetown, Sierra Leone – Relatives of the dead and injured from Friday’s fuel tanker explosion in eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, have been gathering at hospitals across the city, searching for their missing loved ones. Dozens were waiting inside the…
Several demonstrations took place again on Sunday across Morocco to protest against the government’s anti-Covid vaccine pass. In Rabat, police cordoned off the square where an unauthorized rally was to be held in the city center, with around 100 demonstrators dispersed. “You can’t force 20 percent of the population to get vaccinated when there are…