Telecommunications interrupted in Sudan after coup
Telecommunications were interrupted in Sudan, a Reuters witness said on Tuesday, a day after the country’s military seized power in a coup and a health...
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Sudan PM, ministers detained in apparent military coup (Update 3)
Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet on Monday in what the information ministry called a military coup, prompting opponents of the takeover...
World record holder Tirop found stabbed to death
Long-distance runner Agnes Tirop, Kenya’s two-times World Championship bronze medallist, was found allegedly stabbed to death at her home, Athletics Kenya said on Wednesday. The...
Tanzania’s Gurnah, novelist of colonialism and refuge, wins 2021 Nobel
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the...
Moderna plans African vaccine plant as drugmakers urged to help poorest
Moderna plans to invest up to $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines each...
Lava blasts out of new vent on La Palma volcano
Lava flowed from a newly opened crack in the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma on Friday, carving a different path down the mountainside...
WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuse during Ebola crisis, report says
More than 80 aid workers including some employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) were involved in sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola crisis...
Airport closed as La Palma volcano eruption intensifies
Volcanic explosions spewed red hot lava high into the air on La Palma on Saturday as a new emission vent opened, forcing the small Spanish...
Kenya film board bans gay documentary, calling it “an affront”
Kenya has banned a documentary about a gay Kenyan man’s struggle to be accepted by his family and country, saying it was blasphemous and an...
Algeria closes airspace to Moroccan aviation
Algeria’s supreme security council decided on Wednesday to close the country’s airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft, the Algerian presidency said, less than...
Hundreds storm Namibia parliament ahead of German genocide deal vote
Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia’s parliament on Tuesday, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion compensation offer from Germany to...
Rwandan court finds ‘Hotel Rwanda’ film hero guilty in terrorism case
A Rwandan court on Monday found Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, guilty of...
Nigeria to lift Twitter ban ‘very soon’
Nigeria said on Wednesday it expects to end its ban on Twitter (TWTR.N) in a “few more days”, raising hopes among users eager to return...
Send vaccines to Africa and ditch unproven third shot, AU says
Rich nations would do better to send vaccines to Africa to help fight the global COVID-19 pandemic rather than hoarding them for third-dose booster shots...
Tigray forces killed 120 civilians in Amhara village
Rebellious forces from the Tigray region killed 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, local officials told Reuters on Wednesday....
Germany will offer Africa up to 70 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses, Merkel says
Germany will make up to 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday, more than...
Nigeria’s hyena men put maligned animals centre stage
By Nneka Chile and Seun Sanni A hyena may not be your average house pet, but in northern Nigeria some men keep the creatures in...
Booster Covid-19 shots should be delayed – WHO director-general
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that COVID-19 booster shots should be delayed as priority should be given to raising vaccination rates in countries...
Tunisia could cancel trade agreement with Turkey
Tunisia is seeking an urgent review of a trade agreement with Turkey in order to cut a widening deficit, two Tunisian trade ministry officials said...
Libya offers $100bn in reconstruction projects
An asphalt-paved road runs for 2,000 kilometers along the Mediterranean linking up the most important cities of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. The conflict in Libya...