Ethiopia’s prime minister announced Eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from the Tigray region. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says Eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from Tigray, which witnessed mass atrocities against civilians during the months-long conflict in the restive region. “In our March 26, 2021 discussions with President Isaias Afwerki during…
Residents describe the scene as a poor neighborhood in the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown was gutted by fire late Wednesday March 24. Authorities in the city said the death toll is unclear, but thousands may have been affected by the inferno. “This fire started from the seaside coming in with heavy winds. While the fire…
With each passing day, the closed Suez Canal in Egypt is costing an estimated 9 billion dollars’ worth of goods that should be passing through the water way, according to famed shipping journal, Llyod’s List. The blockade is causing disruption in the flow of cargo traffic in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Every day,…
The body of Tanzania’s late President John Pombe Magufuli was on Friday moved to his ancestral home of Chato in the country’s northwest for public viewing and burial. Chato, Geita and neighbouring residents are paying their last respects to him at the Magufuli Stadium, as has been the norm all week. His body was moved…
The fighting amongst the opposition on the MDC name, could very well tear it apart. That would work to the advantage of the ruling Zanu-PF. What is in a name? The rumbling dispute over the proprietary rights to the name – Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) – looks set to blow Zimbabwe’s opposition out of…
The University of Aberdeen said on Thursday it would return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, one of the first public institutions to do so more than a century after Britain looted the sculptures and auctioned them to Western museums and collectors. The university said the sculpture of an Oba, or ruler, of the…
Low tide overnight has slowed efforts to dislodge a 400-metre long, 224,000-tonne container vessel that has choked traffic in both directions along the Suez Canal and created the world’s largest shipping jam. The Ever Given vessel ran aground diagonally across the single-lane stretch of the southern canal on Tuesday morning after losing the ability to…
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff travelling in Ethiopia’s Tigray region saw Ethiopian soldiers shoot dead four civilians, the medical aid agency said on Thursday, denouncing violence in the five-month-old conflict. Fighting between Ethiopian government troops and the region’s former ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds…
Kenyans are slowing turning up to get the Astrazeneca jabs. It comes after the European Union Medicine Agency confirmed the safety of the vaccine. The Machakos government hospital in Nairobi’s southeast, is one of the vaccination centres for covid-19. Nurse Juliana Mwendu confirms. “Ever since the rumors that the vaccine was causing blood clots, initially…
The South-West region has the highest foreign and domestic debt stock among all the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, as at 31st December 2020. According to official figures obtained from the Debt Management Office, the six geopolitical zones of the country currently have a total domestic debt of N4.18 trillion and US$4.77 billion. As at…