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AFRICA

US First Lady visits an NGO operating in Namibia

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden spent her second day in Namibia visiting Hope Initiative Southern Africa. It is a nongovernmental organization that works to end poverty and hunger in marginalized communities in the region. Some of its programs, including ones to...

After gunmen kill two staff members, MSF suspends operations in northwest Burkina Faso.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended its operations in an area of northwest Burkina Faso where armed assailants killed two of its employees on Wednesday, the medical charity said in a statement. "On the morning of Wednesday, February 8, a...

South Africa’s power outages may cause small enterprises to suffer severe losses.

South Africa is facing a major electricity crisis, sometimes with no power for almost six hours a day. It is also affecting small business owners struggling to survive and forced to make hard choices. "We can run the store which...

For hoarding fresh Naira notes, an Abuja bank manager was detained.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arrested an Operations Manager of a commercial bank in Abuja Central Area, for hoarding the new banknotes. The suspect was arrested by operatives of the commission for allegedly refusing to load...

Globetrotting artist in Mauritania enlivens depressed areas

For the past ten years, an artist in shorts and sneakers has been coming to the homes of the world's disenfranchised, and leaving behind brightly colored murals on the walls around words like "Life" or "Peace. "The goal is to...

South African power outages affect the wine business.

The frequent power cuts in South Africans is heavily impeding businesses especially the food and beverage industry. The wine industry is among the hardest hit with many producers counting on huge losses from the ongoing power shedding. The Southern African country...

Anti-corruption chief is reinstated by the Malawi High Court

Malawi's high court has lifted a recent government's suspension of the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Martha Chizuma, a move that could see here return to work sooner than expected. Ms. Chizuma's suspension was last week announced by the...

Regarding Ethiopia’s Blue Nile dam, Sudan and Ethiopia are “in agreement.”

Sudan's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said that Khartoum and Addis Ababa are "aligned and in agreement" on a controversial Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile which Egypt views as a threat. Burhan's remarks came during a meeting...

Unconfirmed reports of ethnic conflict in central Ethiopia

Witnesses allege that several dozen civilians and fighters have been killed in new clashes between Ethiopians from the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups in the centre of the country. The fighting reportedly erupted on Saturday (Jan. 22) in Jewuha town...

“Electoral process badly underway,” says the DRC civil society platform.

Congolese citizens' movements said Tuesday (Jan. 24) in Kinshasa that the electoral process for the December 20 presidential election was "very badly underway," saying they feared fraud and a "denial of democracy." The identification and "enrolment" operations of voters began...
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