Posts tagged with "Africa"

Chinese leader begins Africa visit as US interest in continent wanes Asia

Chinese leader begins Africa visit as US interest in continent wanes

July 21st, 2018 Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Africa on a four-nation visit seeking deeper military and economic ties. His visit comes as the US, the country's rival in a bitter trade war, shows little interest in the world's second most populous continent. This is Mr Xi's first trip abroad since he was appointed to a second term in...
'Vicious cycle' as conflict uproots millions in Africa Africa

'Vicious cycle' as conflict uproots millions in Africa

May 16th, 2018 Violence and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa forced 15,000 people from their homes every day in 2017, double the previous year's figure, an international monitoring centre said on Wednesday, urging more help for those displaced within their own countries. The region accounted for nearly half the 11.8 million people worldwide who were...
Illegal gold miners invade Grace Mugabe's farm amid legal dispute Africa

Illegal gold miners invade Grace Mugabe's farm amid legal dispute

April 20th, 2018 A farm owned by Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is at the centre of a legal dispute after hundreds of illegal gold miners invaded parts of the property and started mining gold. A Reuters photographer saw hundreds of illegal miners digging for gold at the Smithfield citrus farm using picks and shovels, the tools of choice for most illegal...
Israel says to send 16,000 African migrants to Western countries Middle East

Israel says to send 16,000 African migrants to Western countries

April 2nd, 2018  Israel said on Monday it has cancelled a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the UN refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries instead. Other migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, will be allowed to remain in Israel for at least the next five years, Prime Minister...
Hunger brings death to Congo's Kasai after guns fall silent Africa

Hunger brings death to Congo's Kasai after guns fall silent

March 21st, 2018   The guns have fallen silent in the Congolese town of Mwene Ditu, but each day starving children arrive at the small hospital there battling for their lives. Justine Musau, pregnant with her second child, fled into the forest in the central Kasai region last year after militiamen arrived in her nearby village and started...
Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen - UN Africa

Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen - UN

April 11th, 2017 The risk of mass starvation in four countries - north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. Some 20 million people live in hard-hit areas where harvests have failed and malnutrition rates are increasing, particularly among young children, it...
Famine is back, but why always Africa? World

Famine is back, but why always Africa?

February 26th, 2017 For the first time in six years, there is famine in the world: a real, United Nations-declared famine, with more than 30 per cent of the affected population suffering acute malnutrition and more than a thousand people dying of hunger each day. And there are three more countries where famine may be declared any day now. As you would...
German ministry wants migrants returned to Africa - report Europe

German ministry wants migrants returned to Africa - report

November 6th, 2016 The German Interior Ministry wants to stop migrants ever reaching Europe's Mediterranean coast by picking them up at sea and returning them to Africa, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday. In what would be a huge shift for a country with one of the most generous asylum policies, the ministry says the European Union should...
Aids is not over Opinion

Aids is not over

October 27th, 2016 FOUR years ago optimism was high that Aids was in retreat, and could ultimately be eradicated. Back then the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ Aids was boldly predicting “the end of Aids by 2030.” Nobody is feeling that optimistic now. New HIV infections, after dropping steadily for the ten years to 2005, more or less...
African elephant population tumbles due to poaching World

African elephant population tumbles due to poaching

September 25th, 2016 By Ed Stoddard Africa's elephant population fell around 20 percent between 2006 and 2015 because of a surge in ivory poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said in a report on Sunday. Switzerland-based IUCN is regarded as the most authoritative source on wild fauna populations and the report's release...
Benin burning waste explosion kills two people World

Benin burning waste explosion kills two people

September 9th, 2016 An explosion at a waste burning site in Benin killed two people and injured at least 60, the health ministry said on Friday. The blast struck late on Thursday as a crowd of people sifted through piles of expired food that had been dumped in Tori, a town about 40 km north-west of the capital Cotonou, several officials told...
Migrants tell of horrors of voyage in Italy media campaign World

Migrants tell of horrors of voyage in Italy media campaign

July 28th, 2016 Italy launched an internet, TV and radio campaign on Thursday to discourage Africans from setting out on the often deadly voyage to Europe, including real migrants telling their often harrowing stories. In one of the video clips posted on YouTube, Facebook and the awaremigrants.org website, Cesar says he almost died of exposure at sea...
The shoes that grow for the children who need them Cyprus

The shoes that grow for the children who need them

July 24th, 2016 Two Cypriot friends are personally delivering 60 pairs of rather special shoes to a Tanzanian school Thirty-two-year-old Giorgos Tsikkos and 30-year-old Socrates Rossides arrived in the Tanzanian village of Makiwueni on July 14, bringing with them 100 pairs of shoes. The primary goal was to supply all 60 students of the Idimayi Maasai...
South Sudan is not Africa Opinion

South Sudan is not Africa

July 16th, 2016 THIS is not an article on South Sudan, which is just as well because the conflicts there are almost fractal in their complexity. The mini-war last weekend between the forces of President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar, which killed more than 270 people and saw tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships used in the capital,...
Female genital mutilation is a men's issue, say African activists World

Female genital mutilation is a men's issue, say African activists

May 17th, 2016 Female genital mutilation (FGM) will never end until men also throw their weight behind efforts to eradicate the potentially deadly practice, says Nigerian law student and anti-FGM activist Kelechukwu Nwachukwu. On the other side of Africa, Kenyan farmer and community worker Tony Mwebia agrees. "The main reason why girls in Kenya...
Germany seeks to limit migration from North Africa World

Germany seeks to limit migration from North Africa

January 18th, 2016 By Caroline Copley and Michael Nienaber Germany wants to limit migration from North Africa by declaring Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia 'safe countries', officials from the ruling coalition said on Monday, cutting their citizens' chance of being granted asylum to virtually zero. The initiative follows outrage over sexual attacks on...
Pope travels to Central African Republic with message of peace World

Pope travels to Central African Republic with message of peace

November 29th, 2015 Pope Francis was due on Sunday to the begin the final leg of his first African trip in Central African Republic where he will deliver a message of reconciliation and peace to a nation racked by years of violence between Muslims and Christians. The visit to the former French colony will be the pontiff's first trip to a combat zone and...
Kenyan deputy president must attend his trial - ICC judges Africa

Kenyan deputy president must attend his trial - ICC judges

October 25th, 2013 By Thomas Escritt Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto must attend all sessions of his trial at the International Criminal Court unless specifically excused, appeals judges said on Friday in a ruling that puts the court at odds with Kenya and the African Union. Ruto, who is accused of orchestrating a wave of violence after Kenya's...
At least 94 dead, 250 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy (updated) Europe

At least 94 dead, 250 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy (updated)

October 3rd, 2013 By Wladimir Pantaleone At least 94 people died and up to 250 were missing after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. The disaster occurred when the boat's motor stopped working and the vessel began to take on water, Italian Interior Minister Angelino...
Six migrants coming from Africa drown in sea off Sicily Africa

Six migrants coming from Africa drown in sea off Sicily

August 10th, 2013 By Gavin Jones Six migrants drowned off the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday after attempting a dangerous passage from Africa in a fishing boat, according to the Italian coastguard. The 18-metre-long boat carrying some 120 migrants ran aground at dawn some 40 metres (132 feet) from a beach near the city of Catania, its...
US tells citizens in Yemen to leave immediately (updated) Americas

US tells citizens in Yemen to leave immediately (updated)

August 6th, 2013 By Mohammed Ghobari The United States told its citizens in Yemen on Tuesday to leave immediately and ordered the evacuation of non-essential U.S. government staff because of the threat of terrorist attacks. The State Department announcement was the latest warning since Washington issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday that...
US extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious Americas

US extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious

August 5th, 2013 By Tabassum Zakaria The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution on Sunday after an al Qaeda threat that U.S. lawmakers said was the most serious in years. The State Department said 19 U.S. embassies and consulates would be closed through Saturday "out of an abundance of...
Mugabe party claims Zimbabwe election win, rival cries foul Africa

Mugabe party claims Zimbabwe election win, rival cries foul

August 1st, 2013 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party claimed a landslide election victory on Thursday that would secure another five years in power for Africa's oldest head of state, but its main rival said the vote was invalidated by "monumental fraud". Wednesday's voting was peaceful across the southern African nation, but the conflicting...
Zimbabwe votes in third Mugabe-Tsvangirai showdown Africa

Zimbabwe votes in third Mugabe-Tsvangirai showdown

July 31st, 2013 By Cris Chinaka Zimbabweans voted in large numbers on Wednesday in a fiercely contested election pitting veteran President Robert Mugabe against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who has vowed to push Africa's oldest leader into retirement after 33 years in power. With no reliable opinion polls, it is hard to say whether...
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