A member of Nigeria’s military will be receiving a well-deserved reward after he found €37,000 in a package that was left behind at a market near the airport in Kano, in the country’s far north. Aircraftman (ACM) Bashir Umar was on a routine patrol with other colleagues when they found…
As of Monday, the death toll from the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of Congo stood at 1,743, with 10 of 14 newly confirmed cases in the hotspot of Beni that bring the total caseload to 2,498. That’s according to the daily update from the Congolese Ministry of Health, but…
Botswanans had a bit of a scare on Saturday when the helicopter carrying President Mokgweetsi Masisi had engine trouble. A Botswana Defence Force presidential helicopter was forced to make an immediate landing as it arrived around 5:30 p.m. at Francistown Airport, upon arrival from Mathangwane. Francistown is Botswana’s second-largest city….
The UK government has issued a travel warning for Egypt that coincides with the announcement Saturday that British Airways has canceled all flights to and from Cairo for a week. The airline said the decision was made as a security precaution that would allow time for a thorough assessment of…
The threat of crop-destroying locust swarms remains for the Horn of Africa and some North African nations, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and its new Early Warning Early Action report. The United Nations agency has been monitoring the threat following “unprecedented spring breeding” that happened earlier this…
South Africa’s main opposition party says the nation’s Public Protector office has “only scratched the surface” of possible financial wrongdoing linked to President Cyril Ramaphosa in a report issued Friday that found he deliberately misled parliament on campaign donations that presented a conflict of interest – and perhaps more. “It…
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 bust the Australian police have ever conducted in and around Canberra. The seizure of 384 kilograms of cocaine and the arrest of two men followed an investigation into a possible drug ring that began earlier…
The father of three children who died aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, in a March 2019 crash that also claimed his wife and her mother, testified before a U.S. legislative committee hearing on aviation safety on Wednesday in Washington. Paul Njoroge, a Kenyan living in Canada, described the lives that…
Two African leaders were among those to receive the new International Religious Freedom Awards from the United States Department of State, at a ceremony hosted by department secretary Mike Pompeo, above, on Wednesday. Mohamed Yosaif Abdalrahan of Sudan, a human rights lawyer at the Sudanese Human Rights Initiative (SHRI), has…
The World Health Organization declared an international emergency over the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, elevating its status while nonetheless maintaining that the global risk of outbreak remains low. The International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee said it was concerned that a year into an…
The governments of six nations – including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – called Tuesday for a halt to hostilities in Libya, in a joint statement that backed a United Nations process for the country that was derailed in April by the advance on Tripoli of Khalifa Haftar and…
More than three dozen young African leaders are recognized among international recipients of the Diana Award, an annual award beginning in 2017, that honors youth for their contributions to positive social change in the spirit of the late Princess of Wales. Among those selected is journalist Zanji Sinkala of Zambia,…