Tag Archives: Africa

 ‘We’ve finished our tears’: Tigray’s main hospital exhausts food More than 90 percent of Tigray’s people need food aid, despite a truce called to the 18-month-long civil war in Ethiopia. The main hospital in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients after food supplies ran out last ...

 S Africa’s Cele visits community after migrants, residents clash South Africa’s police minister Bheki Cele has visited the family of an activist killed earlier this week at the Chicken Farm informal settlement in Soweto following a dispute with Lesotho nationals. While visiting Kgomotso Diale’s family on Wednesday, Cele promised the ...

 ‘Best therapeutic choice’: WHO backs Pfizer’s COVID antiviral UN health agency says Paxlovid ‘strongly recommended’ for patients with non-severe disease, but at risk of hospital admission. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given its backing to Pfizer’s Paxlovid treatment for COVID-19 after studies showed the antiviral pill reduced the risk ...

 Rwanda jails Chinese national for torturing mine workers The Chinese embassy in Rwanda said in a statement that it had ‘taken note’ of the ruling. A Chinese national has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for torturing local mineworkers in Rwanda after a video showing him whipping a man ...

 Pan-Africanism is the panacea to the West’s systemic racism On April 14, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rebuked the world for treating crises differently depending on race. “I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way,” he ...

 Ramaphosa urges end to Ukraine war during talks with Zelenskyy South African president calls for a ‘negotiated end’ to the conflict as he continues a delicate balancing act. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for an end to the conflict in Ukraine during talks by phone with his Ukrainian ...

 ISIL group claims Nigeria bombing, says about 30 killed or hurt For over a decade, parts of the north have been under attack by a variety of armed groups, including Boko Haram and its splinter groups. ISIL affiliate the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for ...

 Analysis: In Guinea Bissau, April brings reminders of instability April has always been a significant month in Guinea Bissau’s political calendar. In April 1974, soldiers in Portugal began the Carnation Revolution, which ended the war its reluctant army had been waging against independence fighters in five of its colonies, including ...

 First Russian ‘adviser’ confirmed killed in Mali blast, report Malian army unit accompanied by a ‘Russian adviser’ struck an improvised explosive device near the town of Hombori. A Russian national operating alongside Malian soldiers was killed by a roadside bomb in Sahel state, marking the first confirmed death of what ...

 Nigeria probes crash of military aircraft with two fatalities At least four Nigerian military aircraft have been involved in deadly crashes since last year. Nigeria’s air force has said it has ordered an inquiry after a military training aircraft crashed in the northwestern state of Kaduna, claiming two lives. At ...