Coronavirus: ECOWAS budgets $398 million to revive ailing economies, electoral reforms
Since the beginning of 2021 and as a follow-up of the events of last year, the food security situation in Western Africa is a mixed...
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Zimbabwe bans traditional funerals after spike in coronavirus cases
Zimbabwe has banned families from transporting their dead relatives between cities, a custom where families take the dead to their areas of birth for burial...
PHED: Why blackout persists in Rivers communities
File Photo The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company said five power towers were damaged by suspected vandals at the Elelenwo transmission substation in Obio/Apkor Local...
AfDB appoints directors-general, deputy directors-general in regional offices
The African Development Bank Group has announced the appointment of directors-general for the East, Central and Southern Africa regions and deputy general for the East,...
Microsoft’s ambitious Minecraft Earth game is closing down in June
Microsoft is closing down its Minecraft Earth mobile game in June, due to the ongoing pandemic. The ambitious game had aimed to rival Pokémon Go...
Former CAR president under investigation for ‘rebellion’
The Central African Republic has launched an investigation into former President Francois Bozize, whom the government accuses of plotting a coup before last month’s elections....
On Congo’s muddy trails, lessons for a global coronavirus vaccine rollout
When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018, health officials had to act fast – the city was connected via regular...
Kenyan doctors go on strike protesting inadequate benefits, PPE
Kenyan doctors working in government hospitals began a countrywide strike on Monday over inadequate insurance benefits and lack of protective equipment while treating Covid-19 patients,...
UN peacekeepers say CAR rebel push ‘under control’
Rebel forces advancing on the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui have been pushed back and the situation is “under control”, a spokesperson for UN peacekeeping...
Official: Boko Haram infiltrates Cameroon’s political, business leaders
Cameroonian official said Friday he had found evidence that, as widely suspected, Boko Haram militants have been establishing close ties in Cameroonian political and business...