Africa

Egypt has commenced operating special flights through the Omani capital Muscat to bring back Egyptian stranded in Qatar.The repatriation move came following reports of pressing needs to evacuate Egyptians stranded in Qatar due to growing…

Medecins Sans Frontieres’s, MSF, head of mission in Yemen, Claire HaDoung, has disclosed that the country's health system has been heavily affected.HaDoung made the disclosure about the state of Yemenis health system in a recebt update…

Humanitarian workers and medical personnel in North Darfur, Sudan, have raised concern over the astonishing rate at which the elderly are dying during the past weeks.The death toll report is coming from the sprawling refugee camps of…

World Health Organization has cautioned and urged constant vigilance in Africa as COVID-19 cases accelerates and top 200,000 cases including more than 5,600 deaths.Africa recorded its first case of the new disease in mid-February. While…

Following the death of George Floyd in the United States, the African Union on Friday 12th June 2020 in a letter to the United Nations in Geneva called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to organize an urgent debate on racism and police…

The United Nations has appealed for more funding in Yemen. According to UN, three-quarters of the aid programmes organized by its agencies in war-ravaged Yemen will have to shutter in weeks without more funding.UN added that Yemen is…

Over 300 Ethiopian migrants and their families have received food and other essential items from the International Organization for Migration, in Nairobi, Kenya.The migrants, many of whom have been living and working in Kenya for years,…

The United Nations has expressed shock at the reported mass graves in Libya.This was disclosed on Thursday June 11, 2020, after at least eight mass graves were discovered in an area retaken by the country's internationally recognised…

The International Monetary Fund has approved US$111.06 million, a second disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility, bringing the total IMF COVID-19 emergency support to Rwanda to US$ 220.46 million to help urgent balance of payment needs…

Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations said, on Thursday 11 June 2020, that Kenyan detectives have arrested three police officers for allegedly whipping a woman and dragging her along behind a motorbike.The report from the police…

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has on the 9th June 2020 approved $20 million in grant funding from the African Development Fund, to build capacity to curb and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania,…

Libya's National Center for Disease Control has announced a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases this month and has blamed the biggest outbreak on a repatriations of nationals whom were stranded abroad.The NCDC announced more than 90 new…

The Burundi's government has announced the death of the country's outgoing president, Pierre Nkurunziza.While announcing this in a statement posted on Twitter on Tuesday June 9, 2020, the government announced "with great sorrow to…

Accra, 9 June 2020 - Young people have resolved to be more zealous and committed towards the protection of the environment to avert the current climate crisis, especially in this decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals…

The African Development Bank has unveiled a strategic roadmap of projects and programmes to assist African countries in tackling the nutrition and food security aspects of the COVID-19 crisis through a raft of immediate and longer-term…

Source: Reuter News AgencySudanese have demanded suspension of the lockdown imposed on the country following the failure of the government to provide palliatives to cushion the effects of the restriction.While reacting to the situation…

The Malian government has launched an investigation into the killing of 43 civilians during "military" attacks on two villages.While disclosing this in a statement on Monday June 8, 2020, a government officials reported that last…

Source: Al-JazeeraProtesters in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, have staged a demonstration against police brutality, demanding justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings.The protest, which was held on Monday June 8, 2020, followed a…

On Sunday 8 June, 2020, the total number of coronavirus fatalities among Egyptian doctors rose to 47 after the death of 11 doctors in less than a week.Ibrahim El-Zayat, a board member of the Egypt's Medical Syndicate said that the 47th…

Forces of the Government of National Accord in Libya have launched an offensive against Khalifa Haftar's forces.While disclosing this on Saturday June 6, 2020, the GNA spokesman, Mohamad Gnounou, said the offensive was launched to seize…

Forces of the Government of National Accord in Libya have launched an offensive against Khalifa Haftar's forces.While disclosing this on Saturday June 6, 2020, the GNA spokesman, Mohamad Gnounou, said the offensive was launched to seize…

The Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association has issued a nationwide strike ultimatum to the government to meet all terms of payment as contained in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in April or face "a massive disruption" of…

The African Development Bank has cleared its President, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, for second term.This was disclosed in a statement by the Cote d’Ivoire’s Minister of Finance, Mrs. Niale Kaba.Adesina, who is seeking a fresh term of five…

Senegalese government on Thursday announced that it would relax slightly an overnight curfew across the country following protests that have spread to Dakar, the country's capital.The growing unrest in Dakar saw protesters take to the…

The Government of National Accord forces in Libya have announced its full control of Tripoli.The forces, which fight for the Libya's internationally recognised government disclosed this in a statement on Thursday June 4, 2020.According…

Somali government has commended the country’s independent media for their series of sensitisation programs on Covid-19.This was disclosed on Wednesday June 3, 2020, by the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of the regional…

The news has been reported from health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo about a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country's northwest, barely a month to the anticipated end to the Ebola epidemic outbreak in the country's east.The…

A team of the Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a human trafficker ring leader who allegedly was involved in trafficking of some 26 Bangladeshi nationals killed in Libya on May 28.Kamal Hossain alias Haji Kamal (55) was arrested on…

One minute you are reading about pioneering medical technology behind the implanting of bionic eyes to restore sight to blind people. The next you learn that a disease you have never heard of - Schistosomiasis - infects over 200 million…

It is one curious case that much of impacts and milestones by the black-skinned human has been doctored out of many pages of history or underreported, it is another disturbing matter that, for ages, blacks are killed by racists who think…