NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international aid group said Friday that a staff member has been killed in Ethiopia’s conflict in its Tigray region. The International Rescue Committee said “communication with the area is extremely difficult and we are still working to gather and confirm the details surrounding the events that led to the death…
Legislators in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday voted to remove the National Assembly speaker, as the political rift between President Felix Tshisekedi and supporters of his predecessor Joseph Kabila deepens. After parliament became a scene of brawls between MPS this week, they voted in favour of a petition to force out the National…
Dutch documentary reports that Shell employees ordered vandalisation of pipelines to profit from clean-up budgets. Nigerian employees of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell ordered the deliberate vandalisation of oil pipelines for personal gain, a documentary in the Netherlands has reported. Dutch television documentary programme Zembla, together with Dutch environmentalist organisation Milieudefensie, reported in a programme…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Kenyan counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated a new border post on Wednesday in the Kenyan town of Mayale to bolster trade. Abiy is on a two-day visit to neighbouring Kenya, his first official trip since launching military operations against the leaders of the dissident Tigray region last month.…
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo narrowly beat his long-time rival John Mahama to win a second term, the electoral commission announced on Wednesday. But Ghana’s main opposition party has rejected the results of the presidential and legislative vote, citing alleged irregularities. Akufo-Addo, 76, won by a slim margin securing 51.59% of the total votes cast, while…
La tension est montée d’un cran au Ghana depuis le double scrutin présidentiel et législatif de lundi. Mardi, John Mahama est sorti de son silence. Le candidat de l’opposition a dénoncé des fraudes électorales présumées. “Une partie de ce qui se passe est inacceptable et Nana Akufo-Addo continue de montrer des attitudes antidémocratiques.“, a déclaré…
Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against coronavirus next year. A new report has found that as many as 90 percent of the population in dozens of poorer countries will miss out on the coronavirus vaccine next year because most of the supply has already…
Record number of people forced to flee homes in war zones this year, in what UNHCR calls a ‘bleak milestone’. Despite calls for ceasefires and compassion amid the coronavirus pandemic, violence and persecution have continued to force people from their homes, with record numbers now displaced, says the United Nations. By the end of 2019,…
An Ethiopian girl sings to her classmates, who are huddled together on a straw mat on the sandy ground of a refugee camp in neighbouring Sudan. Shielded from the hot mid-afternoon sun in a makeshift classroom built from wood and straw, the children sing back in unison. When they finish, they laugh as they break…
Votes are being counted in Ghana following the presidential and parliamentary elections on Monday. Despite the election being largely calm, heavy security is surveilling the count in the capital Accra’s Jamestown neighborhood, where Ghanaians are already celebrating the victory of their candidate. There are 12 candidates in the running but it is expected to be…