Category: Africa

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) may cease its support programme to Somalia in the next three months if scheduled elections face further delays. An essential military wages funding deal could also be on the chopping board. The debt relief programme needs to be reviewed by May 17 by a new government, according to IMF’s mission […]

Burkina Faso’s transitional president, Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba, has called for an investigation to assess the damage during the January 24 military coup. According to a statement by the presidency, two civilians were killed and a dozen others were injured by stray bullets during the military takeover. Damida ordered that the families of the victims […]

The World Health Organisation has announced that six African countries will be given the revolutionary mRNA technology to set up their own vaccine production centres – helping the continent acquire self-reliance against the Covid pandemic. Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will get the technology used in the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna jabs developed […]

Kenya’s deputy president has defended himself after provoking anger in the Democratic Republic of Congo over his earlier remarks that suggested that there were no cattle in that country. William Ruto had during a political rally said that there was a big market for Kenyan dairy produce in the DR Congo because “these people who […]

Burkina Faso military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is due to be sworn in as the country’s president, just over two weeks after soldiers ousted President Roch Kabore in a coup. Last week, the Constitutional Council, “having taken note” of Kabore’s resignation, declared Damiba, a 41-year-old army officer, president of Burkina Faso. State television said people […]

France has said that “conditions are no longer in place” to continue the fight against Islamist militants in Mali. President Emmanuel Macron has asked to reorganise French troops in the Sahel region. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said the country would continue to fight against terrorism in neighbouring countries. France had already cut the […]

A Sudanese politician who had been a member of the dissolved joint civilian-military government has been arrested. According to his relatives, Mohamed al-Faki Suleiman was picked up near his home in the capital Khartoum. This follows the arrest of two other politicians last week. They were part of a task force trying to dismantle the […]

The Moroccan authorities have decided to survey all abandoned wells across the country after a trapped young boy died in valiant but unsuccessful rescue attempt last week. Rayan’s plight at the bottom of a narrow 32m deep borehole gripped millions in Morocco and beyond. A water ministry official, Abdelaziz Zerouali, said the survey was designed […]

A former minister in Sudan’s civilian administration has been arrested in the latest crackdown on critics of the military government. Khalid Omer Yousif and Wagdi Salih, another top official in the former administration, were arrested on Wednesday, according to their Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition. Yousif was arrested at his party headquarters and […]

The European Union (UN) has said it is lifting its financial sanctions against Burundi. It cited a peaceful political environment and progress by the Burundian government in several areas, including human rights and the voluntary return of refugees into the country. It however noted that persistent challenges remained “in the areas of human rights, good […]