BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya on Monday swore in a new, interim government to replace the country’s rival administrations and lead the war-torn North African nation through elections later this year. Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and his Cabinet were sworn in before the House of Representatives in the eastern city of Tobruk, which…
Sierra Leone kicked off its Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Monday with President Julius Maada Bio receiving an injection of one of the 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines donated by China. The launch took place at the State House in the capital Freetown with a ceremony during which other government officials, parliamentarians and senior civil servants…
The March parliamentary session began on Monday in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of Congo has been without a government for two months. Yesterday’s start of the parliamentary session comes one month after the appointment on February 15 of the new Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde – who has yet to establish his cabinet. Hence,…
Monitoring Defense and security from March 8th to 15th, 2021-CC
In eastern Sudan, renewable energy is being trialled as a power source in UN-run refugee camps, where an influx of thousands of people fleeing conflict in Ethiopia is putting a strain on local resources, and host communities. “Cutting trees is the only option, since we don’t have the money to buy charcoal,” says mother of…
Medical charity Doctors without Borders says treatment centres in the region were looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate manner. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has condemned a “deliberate and generalised” programme of attacking clinics in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region, which faces collapse of health services following months of…
The presidential election on Sunday 21 March in Congo-Brazzaville “must be held in peace, transparency and respect for the rules of the game”, said Saturday the former rebel leader Pastor Ntumi, who took up arms after the re-election of President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the previous election in 2016. The election “must not be an…
Kenya will not take part in the hearings due to start on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on its border dispute with Somalia, the Kenyan government announced in a letter seen by AFP on Sunday. Somalia and Kenya have been at odds for several years over the delineation of…
(Reuters) – Central African Republic will vote in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday under high security after a surge in rebel violence surrounding December’s polls. Insurgents laid siege to the capital Bangui in January, strangling food supply routes, forcing more than 200,000 from their homes, and raising concerns that the country was…
NAIROBI/WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, one of his diplomats has told a broadcaster in Namibia, countering reports he had been flown to hospital in Kenya and then India in a critical condition with COVID-19. Magufuli, 61, who is Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptic, has not been…