There are ominous trends in Lesotho, where Prime Minister Tom Thabane has vowed to implement long-delayed reforms but finds himself mired in internecine political battles that add to the small southern African kingdom’s instability. Last week, defense minister Sentje Lebona resigned – the second minister to do so, and one…
There’s good news for the water-weary residents of Cape Town, where 4 million people living under severe-level water restrictions since February will see them ease at the end of September. That’s because Cape Town’s dam system has recovered to a 71.5 percent capacity level, up from the dry and dire…
The electoral commission in Democratic Republic of Congo released on Wednesday its final list of certified presidential candidates, leaving 21 eligible to contest the December 23 elections. The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) approved Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) candidate replacing President Joseph Kabila. They…
The stunning story of Liberia’s missing money keeps getting worse, with government officials now saying…
Amnesty International says its experts have verified two videos from Cameroon’s Anglophone regions that, two…
Residents of Mayotte were jolted from sleep early Wednesday by yet another earthquake – this…
Environmental experts from 43 countries are gathered in Nairobi for the African Ministerial Conference on…
City official in Harare are implementing emergency measures to contain the cholera outbreak that has…
Namibian authorities have launched an investigation into the death of Paulus Tshilunga, a senior intelligence officer found in his vehicle in Windhoek with a single gunshot wound to the head. Tshilunga was a senior manager with the Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS), and had worked as a spy since the…
Funeral services for Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, are set to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday in the auditorium of the Accra International Conference Center, where visitors have gathered for two days to pay their final respects. The 80-year-old Annan died on August 18 in Switzerland following…
Kelly Ormerod, the daughter of a British couple who died last month while on holiday in Egypt, said she doesn’t believe her parents died from an E. coli bacterial infection, the official cause released Wednesday by the Egyptian prosecutor’s office. Ormerod dismissed the findings and told the BBC that a…
Angola’s Ministry of Environment is launching a new wildlife conservation initiative to assess the impact of poaching, and strengthen legal protections and enforcement. Aristófanes Fontes, the director of the National Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation Areas, tells state news agency ANGOP that national training, a licensing program and a law…