For the past few days, people in the Republic of Congo have been plunged into darkness amid power cuts in the larger cities. Small businesses have been hit especially hard as they cannot store their products. “We here are losing the goods. We have problems with our suppliers. Take the example of this cold room.…
Ethiopia’s President Sahle-Work Zewde has defended the disputed Nile dam filing as she visits Niger’s new leader Mohammed Bazoum. The meeting focused on the contentious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The issue has been a source of tension in the Nile River Basin since Ethiopia broke ground in 2011. “The important point we discussed is the…
Parents of dozens of students kidnapped from a local college in north-west Nigeria gathered to protest on Tuesday in the country’s capital, demanding that the government take action and rescue their children. In March 2021, gunmen attacked the Federal College of F orestry Mechanization ‘Afaka’ in Kaduna state and abducted 39 students. At least 29…
Zambia’s main opposition criticised the government on Tuesday, saying it had no idea how to deal with the debt problem after the country became Africa’s biggest defaulting economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The southern African country of 17 million people is planning presidential and parliamentary elections in August, with an estimated external debt of nearly…
A US delegation arrived in Sudan to meet with its finance minister on Tuesday. The topics of discussion the economy and the tension over Ethiopia’s Nile Dam project. Negotiations are ongoing between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan aimed at resolving a years-long dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Ethiopia being built on the Nile River’s…
South Africa was swift to impose a strict lockdown and rigorous testing at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but its vaccination programme can best be described as stuttering – despite it having the worst mortality figures on the African continent. In January, the country appeared to be finally out of the blocks – and…
As fighting in Ethiopia’s northernmost region hits the six-month mark, we take a look at some of the most important events of the conflict. Six months ago, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops into Tigray for a military campaign against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the northern region’s ruling party that had…
Attack in Kodyel village in Komandjari province leaves at least 30 people dead, including children, after about 100 fighters entered on motorcycles and trucks. At least 30 people were killed by gunmen in eastern Burkina Faso as rebels burned down villagers’ homes and shot them as they tried to escape. The attack occurred in Kodyel…
The Irob, who mostly live in Ethiopia’s northeastern corner bordering Eritrea, face an existential crisis in addition to humanitarian suffering caused by ongoing conflict, activists say. Teklay Hailay* has been so worried since November 4 that he has had trouble sleeping. That is when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared in a televised speech the…
Emotions ran high in the capital of Chad on Monday at the funeral of a man shot dead during protests against the transitional military council. Mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Aggee Barkembaye, who died of injuries sustained when he was shot during a demonstration in N’Djamena last Tuesday. His brother said Barkembaye’s…