Africa Headlines
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:14:31 GMTAfrica: Nearly 150 Million Covid-19 Vaccinations Administered Across Continent as Omicron Threat Looms
[allAfrica] As of December 2, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,666,255 while over 149,172,177 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:42:16 GMTWest Africa: Burkinabé Govt Says Dozens of Militants Killed in 4-Nation Military Operation
[RFI] Burkina Faso's government says it has killed dozens of "terrorists" and arrested hundreds of suspects in joint operations along its borders with neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Togo.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:57:17 GMTCentral Africa: Ugandan Troops Cross Into Congo to Widen Anti-ADF Offensive
[DW] Uganda has deployed soldiers into the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a joint operation with the Congolese military. The troop movement followed bombardments against posts held by the Islamist ADF.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:13:21 GMTEthiopia: 'Elders' Call for Stronger AU Role in Ethiopia Conflict
[East African] Prominent former world leaders, commonly known as the 'Elders', want African leaders to take urgent leading role to help end the Ethiopian conflict.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:57:00 GMTZimbabwe: Mnangagwa Sets By-Elections for March
[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced by-elections will be held in March next year.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:11:12 GMTGhana: Parliament Descends Into Chaos as Majority, Minority Clash Over Budget Approval
[Ghanaian Times] The drama surrounding the approval or otherwise of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government took a new turn yesterday as Parliament descended into chaos, forcing the First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, to susp...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:03:51 GMTZimbabwe: 'Come Back Home' - Govt Urges Zimbabweans Based in South Africa
[New Zimbabwe] The government has urged Zimbabweans living in neighbouring South Africa to adhere to that country's administration's decisions of not extending their Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) beyond 2022.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:58:47 GMTLiberia: Mass Covid-19 Vaccinations to be Conducted In Six Counties
[New Dawn] Liberia: The Ministry of Health is expected to conduct a mass vaccination exercise in six counties here.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:38:34 GMTRwanda: Financial Institutions Excluding Disabled People - Report
[New Times] Persons with disabilities have expressed their concerns and challenges that limit them to accessing financial services like loans, effective customer care and information on financial products among others.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:35:07 GMTRwanda: PSG Academy - a Solid Foundation for Rwandan Football to Thrive
[New Times] As football continues to grow all over the world with clubs across the globe hunting for the next biggest star to groom, foreign teams are extending their tentacles to the African continent to form partnerships with local academies.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:28:35 GMTMalawi: Govt Starts Issuing Maize Export Licenses
[Nyasa Times] The Ministry of Trade has announced that it has started issuing Maize Export Licences with immediate effect.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:52:00 GMTCentral Africa: Congo Basin's Vital Clues to HIV's Behaviour - How We're Trying to Crack Its Complex Code
[The Conversation Africa] There have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a public health threat. The aim was that, by 2020, 90% of people with HIV would know their status, 90% of those would be on ...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:45:41 GMTSomalia: Farmaajo Tours Qatar As Election Programme Falls Short
[East African] Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo has visited strong ally Qatar even as the election programme back home faces another possibility of stalling.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:41:56 GMTUganda: Economy to Rebound, Could Take Longer to Become Lower-Middle-Income Country - World Bank
[World Bank] World Bank Urges a More Gender Inclusive Recovery with Women at the Center
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:50:14 GMTSudan: Appeal to U.S. President for Urgent Action On Political Crisis
[Radio Dabanga] Washington -- Former senior US diplomat Susan D. Page, the former State Department Senior Advisor on Sudan, Prof Charlie Snyder, the former USAID Senior Policy Advisor on Sudan and South Sudan, Dr Brian D'Silva, and Amir Idris, profes...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:39:58 GMTSouthern Africa: UN Chief Denounces Covid 'Travel Apartheid' Against Southern Africa
[VOA] United Nations -- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that southern African nations that first detected the omicron COVID-19 variant are being collectively punished with travel restrictions, and he urged "common sense" to res...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:38:57 GMTEthiopia: Govt Clamps Down On War Coverage
[VOA] Washington -- Armed with placards that read "Stop BBC," "Stop CNN" and "Stop FAKE news on Ethiopia," supporters of Ethiopia's government are protesting in cities across the world.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:36:32 GMTAfrica: Africans Could Soon Get Wider Access to Vaccines in New Distribution Deal
[VOA] Johannesburg -- Vaccine-short Africa is hopeful of getting more COVID-19 doses, as a South African pharmaceutical firm is close to being the first in Africa to distribute them for sale across the continent.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:18:39 GMTAfrica: Landmark Decision to Negotiate New Accord on Pandemics 'Cause for Hope'
[UN News] Agreement by countries to launch a process to develop a new global accord on pandemic prevention and response is cause for hope, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in Geneva.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:11:06 GMTBurkina Faso: Burkina Faso Facing 'Multitude of Challenges' - Human Rights Chief Bachelet
[UN News] Concluding a four-day to visit Burkina Faso, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the country faces "a multitude of challenges with severe impacts on a wide range of human rights of its people".
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:00:08 GMTZimbabwe: Govt Accuses UK of 'Brazen' Interference in Its Internal Affairs
[East African] Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused the United Kingdom of interfering in his country's internal affairs after London voiced concern over human rights violations and persecution of government critics in the southern Africa...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:57:47 GMTAfrica: Unity of Purpose and Action Needed, Guterres Tells AU-UN Conference
[UN News] For two decades, the African Union (AU) has been "a gold standard of regional co-operation", Secretary-General António Guterres told the fifth UN-AU Annual Conference on Wednesday in New York.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:30:21 GMTEthiopia: Rockets Fired as Ethiopia, Sudan Border Clash Escalates
[Nation] The Sudanese military has again accused Ethiopian forces of threatening its soldiers and civilians near a tense disputed border section as a decades-long tiff between them threatens to escalate.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:01:58 GMTMadagascar: Don't Blame Climate Change for Madagascar's Food Crisis, Scientists Say
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Durban -- Widespread poverty, lack of irrigation, deforestation and COVID-19 restrictions are having a bigger effect than global warming, scientists say
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:51:59 GMTEthiopia: Govt Claims Territorial Gains Over Tigrayan Forces Near Capital
[DW] The Ethiopian prime minister's office announced recent territorial gains by the army. Government forces said they had recaptured the UNESCO World Heritage site Lalibela.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:49:15 GMTCameroon: Marthe Wandou - We Need to Move From Frameworks to Action to Protect Children
[DW] The international community should focus more on Africa's children's situation, says the 2021 Right Livelihood Laureate from Cameroon. Wandou also warns the Boko Haram crisis' impact in the region has been underreported.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:40:09 GMTEthiopia: Underinvestment, Greed, Lack of Oversight - Scandal of Facebook's Role in Ethiopia's Conflict
[African Arguments] It is not news that Facebook - now Meta - can and does spread disinformation and hate speech, exacerbating division, discord and violence, and that extreme content is not a glitch, but rather integral to its algorithm-driven engag...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:37:38 GMTNigeria: World Aids Day 2021 - End Inequalities. End Aids, End Pandemics
[Nigeria Health Watch] On the 1st of December every year, the world commemorates World AIDS Day, a day set aside to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, sharing progress and successes as well as identifying challenges in tackling the virus gl...
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:34:13 GMTNigeria: What Buhari Said About Covid During Meeting With Ramaphosa
[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari made reference to COVID-19 during his meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, on Wednesday.
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:34:10 GMTNigeria: Country Confirms Three Cases of Omicron Variant
[Daily Trust] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in Nigeria.