In Iceland, the Samherji fishing company announced Thursday that CEO Thorsteinn Már Baldvinsson will step down during an internal investigation into recent allegations of corporate wrongdoing in Namibia, where the firm has operations through its subsidiaries. Björgólfur Jóhannsson will step into the acting CEO role, the company said in its…
South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) assured the public Thursday that there are no cases of Ebola within the nation and it is not testing for any cases in neighboring countries, following miscommunication over an Ebola drill at a Lesotho border crossing. “The NICD houses the only biosafety…
Tuesday was the target date for South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar to have formed a unified transitional government, but that’s been delayed for 100 days – and that decision is welcomed by the United Nations. UN Secretary General António Guterres, in a statement released through…
In Somalia, the United States says it conducted another air strike near Jilib on Tuesday…
China delivered a blistering retort on Monday to new remarks about spying at the African…
Authorities in The Gambia filed a case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to…
Embattled President Evo Morales has stepped down in Bolivia, where the dramatic developments since the…
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa delivered opening remarks Monday to the Africa Investment Forum,…
By all accounts, the talks over Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam hosted by the United States were positive, with the parties agreeing to a series of four future meetings to work out their disputes over impacts to the Nile River – a sticking point for Egypt and Sudan. Those meetings,…
Morocco has increased its climate change commitments linked to the 2015 Paris Agreement. Eritrea and Benin have decreased theirs, and they represent half of just six nations globally that have reviewed these commitments since – commitments that aren’t delivering fast enough on climate action. That’s according to a report released…
Recent flooding has brought disaster to parts of Somalia, with heavy Deyr-season rains sending the Shabelle and Juba rivers over their banks and forcing some 273,000 people from their homes in the southern part of the nation. That’s raised fears of malaria and other disease outbreaks in the affected regions….
Opposition leaders in Djibouti are condemning the “scorched earth” policies of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and his regime, following a second day of street protests on the outskirts of the capital. Adan Mohamed Abdou, president of the USN alliance covering four opposition groups, said the protests in Arhiba followed the…