At the first sound of gunfire, Lelise Abdissa leapt into a ditch for cover, only to be crushed by other panicked revellers as Ethiopian troops clashed with protesters during a religious festival five years ago. She awoke hours later in a hospital with a broken arm, but she was lucky: Scores of people died in…
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the World Bank held talks Thursday with Sudan’s transitional leaders, focusing on the country’s daunting economic challenges and a reform program the African nation is undertaking to overhaul the battered economy. David Malpass landed in Khartoum late Wednesday, the first visit by a World Bank president to Sudan in…
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese rallied in the capital of Khartoum on Thursday to demand an exclusively civilian transitional government and accused the generals now in power of derailing the transition to democracy. Security forces fired tear gas as protesters neared a central street housing government headquarters. Sudan has been ruled by an…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia said Thursday it is kicking out seven United Nations officials whom it accused of “meddling” in the country’s internal affairs, as pressure grows on the government over its deadly blockade of the Tigray region. The expulsions are the government’s most dramatic move yet to restrict humanitarian access to the region of 6…
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Outsiders have long profited from Africa’s riches of gold, diamonds, and even people. Digital resources have proven no different. Millions of internet addresses assigned to Africa have been waylaid, some fraudulently, including through insider machinations linked to a former top employee of the nonprofit that assigns the continent’s addresses. Instead of serving…
More than 50 countries have missed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) target for 10% of their populations to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of September. Most are in Africa, where the WHO’s overall figure for those fully vaccinated is currently 4.4%. In the UK, nearly 66% of the whole population has been…
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that he is hesitant to lift South Africa’s national state of disaster as the government may need to rely on the legislation in the coming months. Ramaphosa told TimesLive that the government was dependent on the legislation to respond to potential Covid-19 waves in South Africa going forward. “I wish it could end…
The new Cape Town Stock Exchange opens on Thursday pledging to lure firms from across the continent with listing costs that are a third of the JSE’s. TWK Agri Pty. will be the first company to trade on the bourse, which was previously called 4 Africa Exchange. The Cape Town Stock Exchange’s CEO said Eugene…
Algeria on Wednesday started producing the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese firm Sinovac, with production expected to be eight million doses a month. Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane, who attended the launch of the production process at a factory in the eastern city of Constantine, called it a “big achievement”. Production could be doubled in the…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser held talks Wednesday with Egypt’s president that focused on regional tensions and the ties between Washington and its Mideast ally, the Egyptian leader’s office said. The meeting in Cairo with Jake Sullivan came as the Biden administration presses Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s government to stop his crackdown…