The plane that crashed in Somalia last week while delivering humanitarian supplies to support the coronavirus pandemic response was accidentally shot down by Ethiopian forces, according to statements from AMISOM and the Ethiopian military. The African Express 711 aircraft was flying from Baidoa to a camp at Bardale, according to…
Ethiopia and Tunisia have been removed, but four African nations are now on a financial crimes watch list issued by the European Union. Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and Zimbabwe are identified as high-risk countries for money laundering and the potential for funding terrorism, according to an EU statement. The additions are…
The Human Rights Watch organization is sounding the alarm over Egypt’s COVID-related emergency powers legislation, which would expand the power of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi regardless of any public health link to a stated emergency. “President al-Sisi’s government is using the pandemic to expand, not reform, Egypt’s abusive Emergency Law,”…
United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic are helping to battle the coronavirus pandemic…
Some of the greatest luminaries in the arts and sciences – from Nobel prize-winning astrophysicists,…
Tanzania’s main opposition party has called on its affiliated MPs to avoid parliamentary meetings and…
Madagascar continues to promote a controversial herbal remedy for COVID-19, and now Guinea Bissau has…
Conservationists from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa are among the recipients of this year’s prestigious…
