South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday announced new localized restrictions to stem a resurgence of Covid-19 in the south of the country, amid growing fears new infections could spiral into a second wave. Authorities in Africa’s worst virus-hit country have grown increasingly concerned by cluster outbreaks in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces…
Ethiopian forces blocked people from the country’s embattled Tigray region from crossing into Sudan on Thursday at the busiest crossing point for refugees, Sudanese forces said. Their account follows allegations by refugees in previous days of Ethiopian forces stopping people from fleeing the month-old deadly conflict in Tigray. The Sudanese forces, speaking on condition of…
Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress Congress, APC, has written to the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum over Boko Haram killing in Zabarmari area of the state. Tinubu said more effort is needed to win the war against Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram had beheaded over 110 rice farmers in…
Twenty thousand foreign forces and mercenaries are in Libya despite a cease-fire and long-standing arms embargo, the U.N. envoy said Wednesday, calling the situation a “shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty.” Forces loyal to the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord based in Tripoli and those of putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar formally agreed to a cease-fire in…
Tunisian police fought running battles with football fans protesting their club’s exclusion from the national league. About 150 people, mostly male youth, burned tyres and hurled stones at security forces who responded with tear gas. The clashes, in the eastern port city of Chebba, lasted until the wee hours of Wednesday morning. On Monday, the…
Aid workers hoping to access Ethiopia’s Tigray region will have to overcome challenges such as the region’s damaged infrastructure to develop tons of relief items to those in need. After nearly a month of fighting, the full extent of the damage on roads and airports in the state is only being known now. On Wednesday,…
The Tunisian Bureau for Crossing Borders has confirmed that traffic movement between Tunisia and Libya via Ras Ajdir crossing point is running smoothly since the countries agreed recently to open borders to travelers as well as trucks carrying goods. Around 9910 travelers entered Tunisia in the period between 14-24 November, while 8901 travelers left for…
Senator representing Katsina North Senatorial district, Ahmed Baba-Kaita, on Tuesday lampooned President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Garba Shehu for making comments that farmers who were slain by the Boko Haram insurgents did not take permission from the military before embarking on the ill fated journey on Saturday. He described Garba’s comments as…
The ECOWAS Court has ordered 10 of the third-party applicants in a proceeding relating to the payment of compensation by Nigeria over its management of the country’s civil war aftermath, to file before its next sitting, the terms of their settlement. At the resumed hearing of the suit, the applicants informed the court, presided over by Justice…
The European Union wants to improve cooperation with Morocco for the return of the later’s citizens who don’t qualify asylum or refugee status in the bloc, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson said Tuesday in Rabat. “I am here with a mandate to negotiate readmission and visa facilitation, we will see how the…