Ivory Coast’s first Ebola case since 1994 was discovered over the weekend in an 18-year-old Guinean woman. Guinean authorities have announced that 58 people had been confined to their homes after being identified as contacts of a woman who contracted the Ebola virus. The Ebola case was discovered in Ivory Coast over the weekend in…
At least 47 people, including 30 civilians, have been killed in northern Burkina Faso, in a clash between Islamist militants and government forces. At least 19 more people were wounded after the suspected jihadists raided a military convoy escorting civilians on Wednesday, the ministry of communication announced. It said 14 soldiers and three volunteers from…
The BBC’s Kayleen Devlin tells a harrowing story of how the life of a young artist who came to help fight deadly forest fires in Algeria was ended by a mob. On 9 August, Algeria experienced the worst fires in the country’s history: some 71 blazes spread across 18 provinces, and raged for three days.…
The fog of war is a term usually used to describe confusion on the battlefield, but when it comes to Ethiopia, it could just as easily be applied to the bitterly fought information war surrounding the escalating conflict between Tigrayan rebels and government forces. When the BBC was recently offered an interview with teenagers allegedly…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged on Wednesday a peaceful resolution of the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia and also said his country was willing to mediate between Addis Ababa and Sudan for a resolution of a border dispute. Erdogan made the comments during a joint news conference with visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The…
The Department of Tourism says that it wants to introduce a vaccine passport for South Africa. Still, several international and legislative hurdles need to be addressed. Briefing parliament on Tuesday (17 august), Tourism director-general Nkhumeleni Victor Tharage said that the key issue is a lack of standardisation around vaccine passports worldwide. “Even in some jurisdictions that…
Pretoria – President Cyril Ramaphosa has, on behalf of the government and people of South Africa, sent “warm congratulations” to President-elect Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia after the longtime opposition walloped the incumbent Edgar Lungu in the copper-endowed country’s hotly contested presidential election. “President Ramaphosa says the success of the recent presidential election provides the basis…
The UN health agency said Tuesday that a second suspected case of infection by the deadly Ebola virus had been detected in Ivory Coast. World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said that as of Monday, there had been one confirmed and one suspected case, with nine contacts identified so far. No deaths have been reported.…
Malawian President and new Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Lazarus Chakwera says that inequality in access to Covid-19 vaccines”no longer acceptable.” According to him, the vaccine “belongs to all nations, irrespective of who found it.” Southern Africa’s regional bloc praised Zambia on Tuesday for overseeing a peaceful transition of power after a veteran…
Pretoria – ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has congratulated Zambia’s president-elect Hakainde Hichilema who was on Monday declared winner of the hotly contested presidential election. “Zambians, like South Africans, were gatvol with [outgoing Zambian president] Edgar Lungu’s previous administration buckling under high unemployment as a result of poor economic management, high unemployment and socio-political unrest,” said…