Ethiopia’s 16-month-long civil war observed a ceasefire on Friday after separatist militants from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” proposed by Addis Ababa 24 hours earlier to allow humanitarian aid delivery to Ethiopia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
A group of climate activists met briefly with Pope Francis in the Vatican Wednesday to request his backing in their crusade to halt the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Nigeria has suffered from massive oil spills in recent months while simultaneously reporting fuel shortages, indicating extreme levels of resource mismanagement by the nation’s government, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) reported on Thursday.
Cameroon’s government on Monday blamed Moscow’s latest war with Kyiv for a preexisting nationwide wheat shortage, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
According to a report published by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai this weekend, the world’s poorest nations will pay China almost $14 billion in 2022 to service their debts.
Daniel Bekele, chief of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, said on Friday that a string of highly unusual and little-discussed police raids this month took at least eight Ethiopian government officials into custody, implicity for human rights violations.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of Sunday discussing potential Chinese investments with his counterparts from Algeria, Tanzania, and Zambia, claiming that the war between Ukraine and Russia demands even more Chinese attention on the continent of Africa.
South Sudan is set to endure its “worst hunger crisis to date” in the coming months, Voice of America (VOA) quoted World Food Program (WFP) representative Marwa Awad as saying on Friday.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday demanding his administration issue an assessment of accusations of genocide against the government of Ethiopia and demanding Biden do more to address the brutal civil war in that country.
Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) recently dismissed 2,574 officials from leadership positions as part of a major political reshuffle amid Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, the Addis Standard reported on Wednesday.
A Nigerian national told the BBC on Wednesday he is willing to fight for Ukraine in its latest war against Russia and would volunteer to do so because he believes “being a soldier in Ukraine would be better than being here,” referring to his life in Lagos, Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari apologized “to all sections of the society” in a statement Wednesday for Nigeria’s increasingly critical shortages of gasoline and other petroleum fuel products, as well as a rotting electric grid that collapsed twice this week, leaving the entire country in the dark.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres applauded his organization in a report made public on Tuesday for taking “robust measures” against its own deplorable record of sexual abuse, including “mandatory training” and “annual surveys.”
Airlines in Nigeria warned this week that they were days away from running out of jet fuel, and business groups demanded the government act to stabilize petroleum product availability nationwide, Nigeria’s Vanguard reported on Wednesday, as Africa’s largest oil producer struggles to refine any of its supply.
Moderna finalized an agreement with Kenya’s government on Monday to build the U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant’s first manufacturing facility for mRNA vaccines on the African continent, Africanews reported Tuesday.
The Christian aid group Open Doors revealed Wednesday that a Christian is violently killed for the faith in Nigeria every two hours on average, 365 days a year.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday her staff recorded 304 deaths caused by military airstrikes in northern Ethiopia since November 2021 “apparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force.”
Armed gunmen identified only as “terrorists” broke into a church in Kaduna, Nigeria Tuesday and kidnapped the Catholic priest, Father Joseph Aketeh.
Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Monday that militia fighters shut down the Sharara oil field, the largest in the country, plus another vital oil field at el-Feel.
The NGO Refugees International predicted in a call for help this week that famine in the Tigray region of Ethiopia could “mirror” the Great Famine of the 1980s, as a result of the ongoing civil war in that country.
While it has the climate of California, the Western Cape is the political equivalent of Florida, the one place that is willing to depart from the statism of the central government.
The Foreign Press Association, Africa – an organization for foreign reporters on the continent – issued an impassioned statement on Tuesday condemning global coverage of the Russian assault on Ukraine for being “racist” and showing a “lack of nuance and empathy” towards victims of war in Africa and other areas with majority non-white populations.
Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjártó has praised the Egyptian government for its commitment to stopping illegal migrants who wish to depart from its coast for Europe.
The City of Cape Town, whose residents are frustrated with repeated the electricity failures of the national utility, Eskom, has invited bids from independent power providers to supply the city with 300 MW of electricity.
Julius Malema faces a hate speech trial in the South African Equality Courts over his party’s use of the anti-white “Kill the Boer” chant.
Pope Francis condemned the “unjustifiable and deplorable” murder of a young Congolese priest by presumed Islamic terrorists.
The U.S. State Department recently offered a reward of up to $5 million for information that leads to the arrest of Joseph Kony, a Ugandan wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes of war and crimes of humanity, Uganda’s Nile Post News reported Monday.
A gang of some 30 Islamic terrorists stormed a Catholic seminary in eastern Burkina Faso the night of February 10, burning two dormitories and destroying a crucifix.
Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who was among the first to identify the omicron variant of the Wuhan coronavirus, told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday she was subjected to “a lot of pressure from European scientists and politicians” to portray omicron as more dangerous than it actually was.
Unidentified gunmen stormed a Catholic parish in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sunday evening, abducting the parish priest and killing the cook.
A five-year-old boy trapped for several days inside a Moroccan well has died, the royal palace announced Saturday.
Father Richard Masivi Kasereka was gunned down this week in the DR Congo, allegedly by Muslim terrorists from the Allied Democratic Forces, a group linked to the Islamic State.
Efforts to rescue a five-year-old boy stuck in a Moroccan well continued a fourth day on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Pope Francis “forcefully” condemned a terrorist attack at a camp for internally displaced persons in the DR Congo, which claimed the lives of at least 58 people.
Kenya Airways says it plans to stop transporting monkeys on behalf of a Mauritius-based primate farm after a recent such shipment suffered an escape of four cynomolgus macaques while in transit in Pennsylvania to a U.S.-based laboratory that uses the
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo) sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday for their involvement in the killings of two U.N. staff members in March 2017, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting the trial’s prosecutors suggested local militiamen carried out the murders “to take revenge against the UN” for allegedly “failing to prevent attacks against them by the [D.R. Congo] army.”
Rwanda issued a federal mandate this week requiring all citizens and residents of the country to show proof of full Chinese coronavirus vaccination before they are allowed into any public spaces or events, Rwanda’s New Times newspaper reported Thursday.
At least eight people died from injuries sustained during a stampede at a soccer stadium in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Monday, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Former South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was asked Friday by a judicial panel to apologize for remarks he made in 2020 supporting the State of Israel.
A photo recently surfaced online that allegedly captures three Nigerian state governors in the presence of a known associate of Bello Turji, a Nigerian “banditry kingpin,” Nigeria’s Premium Times reported Wednesday.
