Sudan: Port Closure Leads to Shortage of Essential Medicine, Fuel, Wheat

The Sudanese government has announced that the country is about to run out of essential medicine, fuel, and wheat after political protests forced the closure of Port Sudan. Read more »

Africa: New Global Probe Exposes African Leaders' Secret Offshore Wealth

A number of African leaders have been named by an international consortium of journalists as secretly owning assets overseas which show some of them to be enormously wealthy… Read more »

Kenya: Victor Wanyama Retires From International Football

Kenyan footballer Victor Wanyama announced his retirement from international soccer, with these words on Twitter: Read more »

South Sudan: Elections Won't End in 'Miraculously' Having Democracy, South Sudan Needs a Vision

Welcome to AllAfrica's Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I'm Mantsadi Sepheka. And today our focus is South Sudan.Africa's youngest… Read more »

South Sudan: If We Truly Want Young People to be Peacemakers, Agents of Positive Change, Then Attacks on Education Must Stop

My name is Nandege and I am a peacemaker. I come from the village of Homiri in Chukudum county, South Sudan, where most of the population of some 150,000 people are subsistence… Read more »

Sudan: Govt Says There Was Attempted Coup - Reports

A Sudanese government source is being quoted as saying that there was a failed coup attempt in the country. Read more »

Mozambique: How Rwandan Troops Notched Up Early Successes in Cabo Delgado - Report

Rwandan troops have notched up "remarkable" early successes against insurgents in the Cabo Delgado region of northern Mozambique, reports a civil society observer group. The group… Read more »

Ethiopia: How to Build Peace in Ethiopia - 'We Need to Be Brave ... Look at Our Past, And Engage With It Honestly' - CONVERSATION

Welcome to allAfrica's Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I am Mantsadi Sepheka from AllAfrica and today our focus is Ethiopia. Fisseha… Read more »

Ethiopia: Tigrayan Forces Take UNESCO Heritage Site of Lalibela - Eyewitnesses

Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela in the country's neighbouring Amhara region, Reuters reports. Read more »

South Sudan: Two Activists Arrested on Same Day New Parliament is Sworn In - Reports

South Sudan on Monday swore in hundreds of lawmakers to a newly created national parliament, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Needs an Inclusive Social Protection Policy

Doris is a 75-year-old woman from Kayaba informal settlement in Nairobi. As with most families in the settlement, her house is a single dilapidated room with mud walls, a… Read more »

Africa: How Covid-19 Undermines Democracy in Africa

As the recorded number of infections in Africa edges towards the six million mark, it has become clear that Covid-19 is not only a public health challenge. Apart from the… Read more »

Africa: Biden Administration Announces Donation of 25 Million Covid-19 Vaccines to Africa

The White House is announcing today that the Biden administration will donate approximately 25 million COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed in Africa. Planned to be made in the next… Read more »

South Sudan: Engage the Youth in Building Peace and Our New Nation

South Sudan, the world's youngest nation and an ethnically-diverse country with a population of more than 11 million, celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday. The country gained… Read more »

Ethiopia: Tigrayan Crowds Jeer Captured Federal Troops

Thousands of prisoners taken by Tigrayan forces have been paraded through the recaptured regional capital, Mekelle, in an apparent breach of the principles of international law… Read more »

Ethiopia: TPLF Issues Statement Outlining Conditions for a Ceasefire in Tigray

The following statement was issued by the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front and posted on Twitter by executive committee member and spokesperson, Gatechew K. Reda, who served as… Read more »

Ethiopia: 'Opportunity Must Not Be Lost' - Five Former U.S. Ambassadors to Ethiopia on Events in Tigray

This statement was provided to AllAfrica by five former American ambassadors who led U.S. representation in Ethiopia for 13 of the past 25 years. The career diplomats welcome the… Read more »

Ethiopia: Heavy Casualties After Attack on Market in Tigray - Report

There has been heavy casualties after an airstrike on a market in Tigray, according to BBC. Read more »

Tanzania: The Human Rights Priorities for New President Suluhu

Three years ago, the Tanzanian human rights activist Vicky Ntetema and I sat down at a quiet Dar es Salaam restaurant to talk about the human rights situation in her country. I… Read more »

Uganda: Parliament 'Quietly' Passes Bill Reintroducing Homosexuality Ban

Uganda's Parliament "quietly" passed the Sexual Offences Bill 2019 which reintroduced a ban on homosexuality in the country, Uganda Radio Network (URN) reports. Read more »

East Africa: Africa Doesn't Need the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

Africa does not need the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline. Read more »

East Africa: Greenpeace, Energy Groups Take Wrong Approach to Tanzania, Uganda Crude Oil Pipeline

If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I'd probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace. Read more »

Southern Africa: SADC Military Mission Warns of Terror Attacks on Mozambique's Allies

A Southern African military mission which has assessed the current conflict in northern Mozambique is warning that so-called “al Shabaab” insurgents could conduct… Read more »

Africa: Most Covid-19 Bail-out Money Goes to Big Business - Survey

Most of the money paid out by the governments of Kenya and Sierra Leone to those struggling with the economic effects of the coronavirus has gone to big corporations and not the… Read more »

Africa: When Will Women Have Equal Access to Land?

In Kenya, residents of a women-only village established in 1990 were finally granted ownership of their tract of land this month. In Tanzania, the government affirmed its… Read more »