Development comes 1 day after federal government delegation led by parliament speaker visited Mekele. Ekip NAIROBI, Kenya Ethiopia announced Wednesday that it has resumed flights to the Tigray capital of Mekele as key services have also resumed in the northernmost regional state. Services that have been restored include, air transport, mobile services, humanitarian aid and…
Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison in Ivory Coast on Wednesday after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach nearly seven years ago. The killings in the Grand-Bassam resort area were perpetrated by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb…
It has been more than a year since jihadis first stormed Igor Kassah’s town in northern Benin but the priest still lives in fear. His once peaceful life is now marked by threatening phone calls and Islamic extremist diatribes tacked on church doors demanding that people leave. He is haunted by the bodies he has…
Rwanda’s government said on Wednesday that a fighter jet from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) briefly violated its airspace, the latest accusation to fly between the two countries whose relations have frayed this year. The DRC, Western powers and United Nations experts accuse Rwanda of backing M23 rebels in eastern Congo, who have seized several…
‘Ugandan Agency within China-Africa Relations: President Museveni and China’s Foreign Policy in East Africa’ is an analysis of power relations between China and Uganda under President Yoweri Museveni. The book by Barney Walsh was published by Bloomsbury in 2022. It mainly covers the period from 2000 to 2015 and argues that relations between China and Uganda,…
By AFP Juba South Sudan will send 750 soldiers to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo soon to join a regional force fighting a rebel offensive, a military spokesman said Wednesday. Fierce fighting in recent months between Congolese troops and the M23 rebel group prompted the East African Community (EAC) bloc to deploy a joint…
The family of the teenagers who were allegedly attacked at a Bloemfontein resort have welcomed the arrest of three men. The men were arrested on Wednesday, and two of them appeared in court on charges of common assault and crimen injuria. The third man will appear in court on Thursday on an attempted murder charge. The…
Compiled by Phillip de Wet, Business Insider SA Zimbabwe has banned the export of unbeneficiated lithium, the “white gold” used in cellphone and electric vehicle batteries. It wants to see either local processing or proof of exceptional circumstances before it will allow the metal to leave the country. Zimbabwe is the sixth-largest producer of lithium…
By Rédaction Africanews SOUTH AFRICA The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion near Johannesburg on Christmas eve has climbed to 26, a local official said on Wednesday (Dec. 28). The provincial prime minister communicated the update during a visit to comfort families of the victims. Relatives of the deceased gathered in Johannesburg during a…
Reuters | @SABCNews Clashes have killed 56 people during four days of fighting in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state, after youth from the Nuer community attacked another ethnic group, a local official said on Tuesday, with the Nuer making up most of the casualties. The territory of South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, has…