Category: Africa

A Ugandan minister has raised concerns about “trade restrictions” imposed by neighbouring Kenya. A tweet by Uganda’s Agriculture Minister, Frank Tumwebaze, addressed to his Kenyan counterpart, Peter Munya, said Uganda is “not happy” with restrictions on sugar exports. According to Tumwebaze this casts doubt on the idea of the East African Community – a regional […]

The body of a British journalist killed by armed robbers while on a reporting trip to Ghana is being repatriated on Wednesday. 31-year-old Syed Taalad Ahmed, from Hartlepool in north-east England worked for the UK-based Muslim Television Ahmadiyaa International network. Ahmed leaves behind his wife and two children. The journalist was filming a documentary when […]

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasango has been appointed as the Africa Union’s envoy to the Horn of Africa. It comes amid political and security crises in the region, in particular in Ethiopia where a civil war has been raging in the northern region of Tigray since November. Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the AU Commission, […]

Ethiopia’s rebel fighters say a government blockade on the northern region of Tigray is to blame for the devastation that has nearly a million people on the verge of starvation. But the federal government has blamed the situation on them. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which is fighting the government, said the health system in […]

The UN has reportedly agreed to a request by the Sudanese government for Ethiopian forces to leave the Abyei region as tensions between the two countries escalate over the Nile dam and a disputed border region. “It was agreed to withdraw the Ethiopian component from the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) during […]

Zambia’s veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been sworn in as president in front of a packed stadium in the capital, Lusaka. During a long political career that saw him fail in five previous bids to become president, Hichilema was brutalised, tear-gassed and even detained for a traffic offence in 2017 that was deemed treasonous […]

Fifteen students have been reunited with their parents seven weeks after they were kidnapped from their school in north-western Nigeria, said officials. One parent said some of the children were recovering in hospital following the ordeal. Twenty-one students in total were seized from Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State. The police said efforts are […]

The United States has offered a $5million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of former Guinea-Bissau military chief Antonio Indjai. Indjai led a coup in the West African country in 2012 before he was dismissed two years later in a democratic transition. The US authorities indicted him in 2013 on accusations of […]

Two new prison directors in Mozambique have been fired just 12 days after they were appointed. One of them is Herminia Nhamundze, the director of Ndhlavela Women’s Penitentiary, where it was found that inmates there had been forced into prostitution. Ramos Zambuco of the Maputo Maximum Security Prison is another prison director who was fired. […]

The UN’s migration agency has called for a “rapid expansion” of humanitarian aid and more funding for operations in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado. Antonio Vitorino, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) director who is on a visit to Mozambique, said the assistance was needed to support the hundreds of thousands who have […]