Regional
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138WFP institutes further cuts on food rations for refugees in Kenya as funds dry up
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is further cutting food rations for 440,000 refugees in Kenya, due to severe funding shortfalls,...
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95Tanzania economic recovery plans impress IMF
The government’s efforts to fight COVID-19 and the economic recovery plans have impressed the International Monetary Fund (IMF), saying Tanzania deserved the...
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121Human rights abuses intensifying in eastern DR Congo – UNHCR
In the two most affected provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, UNHCR and its partners recorded more than 1,200 civilian deaths and...
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234Rwanda pilots universal access to HIV prevention medicine
Rwanda is piloting the possibilities of making HIV-prevention pills—which are currently only accessible to key populations in the country—available to all. The...
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410Museveni calls for sanctions against Guinea coup leader Col Mamady Doumbouya
President Yoweri Museveni has condemned the recent coup d’état in Guinea, describing it as “a step backward”. Col Mamady Doumbouya on Sunday...
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191South Sudan: End new wave of repression against peaceful protests
South Sudanese authorities have arrested civil society activists and a politician and closed down a radio station and an academic think-tank, signaling...
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109AMISOM extends COVID-19 vaccination to Mogadishu traders
Dozens of Somali shop owners, shop assistants and other business persons operating at the ‘Marine Market’ inside the Halane Base Camp in...
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174Somalia: Wholly inadequate Covid-19 response highlights need to use debt relief to invest in healthcare
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to urgently address the serious and longstanding issues facing Somalia’s healthcare system following years of...
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202Sudan to hand ex-President Omar al-Bashir, other officials to ICC over war crimes
Sudan says it will surrender former officials, including former deposed president Omar al-Bashir, wanted for alleged war crimes in the Darfur region...
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210UNICEF: 100,000 Children in Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition
More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a tenfold jump...
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548Tanzania receives over 1 million doses of Janssen vaccine from the US
Tanzania has today July 24, 2021, received over 1 million doses of the Janssen coronavirus vaccine from the United States donated through...
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964DEVELOPING STORY: Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina survives assassination attempt
Madagascar president, Andry Rajoelina, has survives an assassination attempt, reports AFP citing prosecutors. Several “foreigners and residents of Madagascar” have been detained...
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1.1KISIS: Mozambicans devided over Rwanda deployment
The arrival of Rwandan soldiers in Cabo Delgado has drawn harsh criticism from opposition parties and rights organisations. Rwanda has sent 1,...
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631South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma hands himself over to police
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of...
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790Burundi human rights defender Germain Rukuki released after four years
BUJUMBURA — Reacting to news that Burundian human rights defender Germain Rukuki has been released after serving more than four years in...
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285King Mswati has not fled the country, says Eswatini Prime Minister
MBABANE – The Kingdom of eSwatini has dismissed reports that King Mswati III has fled the kingdom after pro-democracy protests escalated on...
