President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya was on hand Friday for the launch of the Lake Turkana wind energy project, which is expected to increase the country’s electricity supply by an estimated 13 percent. The project, the largest in Africa, has an installed capacity of 310 megawatts of clean renewable energy,…
The United States Embassy in Lilongwe has issued a travel ban and security warning for staff, ahead of planned protests Friday in the wake of the disputed Malawi presidential election. “Though organizers consistently have called for peaceful protest, looting and violence have occurred during recent demonstrations throughout Malawi’s major cities,”…
Angola is the latest of Africa’s Portuguese-speaking nations to sign on to the Lusophone Compact, which seeks to boost private-sector development in partnership with Portugal and the African Development Bank (AfDB). The compact is an initiative that links the six Portuguese-speaking nations – Angola, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique,…
A shipment of equipment from South Africa has turned out to be the largest drug…
The father of three children who died aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, in a March…
Two African leaders were among those to receive the new International Religious Freedom Awards from…
The World Health Organization declared an international emergency over the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic…
The governments of six nations – including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – called…
A massive effort to shut down illegal wildlife crime has resulted in almost 600 arrests across 109 countries, according to INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization (WCO). The Operation Thunderball mission conducted during the month of June led to 1,828 seizures of illegally traded ivory and pangolin scales, live plants and…
In Mozambique, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres begins a two-day visit Thursday to assess the damage from storms Idai and Kenneth, which devastated the country earlier this year. Guterres will meet with President Filipe Nyusi to begin his travel, and receive updated briefings from UN agencies in the field…
A South African animal protection group says 68 horses were taken to their facility because of animal cruelty, and those horses belong to the Lesotho Government’s military. The horses were kept on land outside the town of Hobhouse, right at the western border with Lesotho. The Bloemfontein SPCA says it…
A Nigerian-led startup that wants to boost the access to African DNA for research purposes has received US$4.5 million in funding. The 54gene enterprise – launched earlier this year with bases in Nigeria and the United States – seeks to end the lack of diversity in DNA that’s used in…