Category: Africa

Harare – Doctors kin Zimbabwe says the country is facing a crisis from a shortage of healthcare workers as the number of Covid-19 infection begins to rise. According to Dr Rashida Ferrand, an epidemiologist at the main public hospital in the capital Harare, there are too few doctors and nurses because of a health workers’ […]

Harare –Seven babies were stillborn at Harare Central Hospital in Zimbabwe on Monday night after urgent treatment was delayed because of staffing issues, two doctors confirmed. It is said that nurses are on strike nationwide because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other concerns, and the maternity wards were overwhelmed. One doctor […]

Ivory Coast – Ivory Coast’s ruling RHDP party has officially nominated President Alassane Ouattara to seek re-election for a third term. Ouattara on Wednesday asked for more time to consider the nomination, indicating he would announce his decision in a speech to the nation on August 6. “I have heard messages from the various party […]

Tanzania – Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa will be buried later on Wednesday at his home village in southern Tanzania. Mkapa died of cardiac arrest, not Covid-19 as earlier reported, in the early hours of Friday, his family said. Some Tanzanians believe Mkapa will be remembered as the founder of a modern Tanzania, because of […]

Nigeria – The African Bank of Development (AfDB) leader Akinwumi Adesina has been cleared of corruption by an independent probe, reported the AFP news agency. The independent panel of experts is headed by former Irish President Mary Robinson and Gambia’s Chief Justice Hassan Jallow as well as the World Bank’s integrity vice president Leonard McCarthy. […]

Tanzania – The world is watching as Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s former chief whip of the main opposition party Chadema, returns home on Monday after having been shot by unidentified gunmen 16 times outside his parliamentary residence in 2017. It took 24 surgeries in Kenya and Belgium to recover from the attack, and now Lissu is […]

Sudan – The Sudanese government has announced that it has discovered a mass grave dating to 1990. According to the attorney general the mass grave had 28 military officers believed to have been involved in a failed coup against former President Omar al-Bashir. “The attorney has found strong evidences that there is a mass grave […]

Nigeria – Jihadists have murdered five aid workers who they abducted last month in north-east Nigeria. The humanitarian agencies Action Against Hunger and International Rescue Committee had confirmed that their employees were among the dead. The militants abducted the five men in Borno State in June. A video was released last month in which the […]

Sudan’s ousted long-serving leader Omar al-Bashir has gone on trial in the capital, Khartoum, in connection with the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago. Al-Bashir, 76, who has already been convicted for corruption, could face the death penalty if found guilty over his role in the 1989 coup. More […]

Morocco – Morocco has announced that a return to lockdown in the city of Tangiers as part of efforts to battle a new outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. A few weeks after easing nationwide restrictions, the northern port city of Tangiers was locked down, with public transport suspended, cafes and public spaces closed and movement […]