Category: Africa

Internet access has been cut in Sudan ahead of nationwide protests on Thursday to press civilian rule. Internet monitoring organization Netblocks reports that internet access was disrupted across the country at 08:00. ⚠️ Confirmed: Real-time network data show internet access has been disrupted across #Sudan after 8 am local time, leaving users offline amid anti-junta […]

Angola’s immediate former president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, is in an induced coma in a hospital in Barcelona, reported a Portuguese news agency. “José Eduardo dos Santos is hospitalised in a clinic in Barcelona and is in a coma following a [relapse], after recovering from Covid-19,” said Portugal’s state-owned Lusa News Agency, which extensively covers […]

Kenya’s director of public prosecution has vowed to take action after a BBC Africa Eye report revealed the organised smuggling of disabled children Tanzania to Kenya for profit. “I am actually ashamed and not trying to give an excuse, I promise to pick it up myself but the best thing is for us to have […]

 The African Union has called for an immediate investigation into the death of at least 23 migrants who died on Friday when a huge crowd tried to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla. AU Commission chairperson Mousa Faki Mahamat said he was shocked and concerned about the treatment that African migrants receive when […]

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall attended a runway show at the Rwanda fashion week. The Royal couple are in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, representing the Queen at this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. Despite a momentary power cut in the venue, Charles and Camilla sat in the front row as designers […]

Ghana’s lawmakers have approved a plan to investigate how funds worth $1.5 billion were spent in the fight against Covid-19. It follows alleged discrepancies in receipts and payments presented to MPs by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. Opposition MPs said the minister had failed to give a convincing explanation when he appeared before parliament on Wednesday. […]

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she is seeking a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart to secure the release of a jailed activist who has been on a partial hunger strike since April. Alaa Abdel Fattah was given British citizenship through his British-born mother. He was a key figure in the 2011 uprising that ousted […]

More than 130 civilians were killed by jihadists in three neighbouring towns over the weekend, said the government in Mali. It blamed a group called Macina Katiba which is affiliated to al-Qaeda for the attacks in Diallassagou and two other localities in central Mali’s Mopti region. In a separate jihadist attack on Saturday near the […]

The Belgian authorities have handed the tooth belonging to Congo independence leader Patrice Lumumba to his family in a ceremony in Brussels. It is the only part of him that is thought to still exist after he was executed and then his body dissolved in acid in 1961. Belgium was the former colonial power and […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) says plans by the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to have powers to declare public health outbreaks within Africa require further discussion. The health body says it is likely to lead to confusion and have a huge impact on trade and travel. The Africa CDC says its push for […]