July 13, 2023
West Africa: UNHCR Concerned About Forced Repatriation of Burkinabe Refugees From Ghana
UNHCR, the U.N.'s refugee agency, has expressed concern about reports that Ghana's armed forces this week deported hundreds of asylum-seekers who were fleeing an insurgency in… Read more »
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Attacks Somali Base Handed Over By AU Forces
Al-Shabab fighters have attacked a Somali military base handed over by Kenyan forces late last month as part of an African Union troop drawdown. Read more »
Africa: African Leaders At Business Summit Call for Extension of Trade Deal With U.S.
Leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Botswana have urged renewal of the long-standing Africa Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA). Read more »
Malawi: Religious Leaders Protest Same-Sex Marriage
Religious leaders in Malawi led street protests Thursday against same-sex marriage, as a Dutch citizen and a transgender Malawian challenge laws in Malawi's High Court against… Read more »
Sudan: International Criminal Court to Investigate Report of Mass Grave
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday that his office is investigating reports that at least 87 people were found in a mass grave in Sudan's West… Read more »
South Africa: China's Huawei Launches Innovation Center in South Africa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday welcomed the opening of a new Huawei Innovation Center in Johannesburg, praising the Chinese company for its "confidence in the… Read more »
Africa: Egypt Holds Conference With Sudan's Neighbours On New Ceasefire
Egypt is seeking ways to make an elusive cease-fire hold in the bloody Sudan conflict that has killed thousands and forced Sudan's residents into at least six neighboring countries… Read more »
July 12, 2023
Mozambique: Many of Mozambique's Internally Displaced Fear Returning Home
Hasmane Alfa was 18 when armed men attacked his home village of Quissanga, in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. Read more »
Nigeria: Activists Alarmed by Burning of Vessel Loaded With Stolen Crude
Environmental activists in Nigeria are raising alarms after the military this week burned a ship with more than 800,000 liters of stolen crude oil. Read more »
Uganda: Government Rejects Torture Allegations
Uganda's government is rejecting claims that top officials, including President Yoweri Museveni and his son, were responsible for the torture of political opponents. Read more »
West Africa: Yaounde Hosted Sahel Cross-Boundary Pastoralists Forum Proposes Peacekeeping
Ministers from eight of Africa's Sahel region countries are meeting in Cameroon to try to end conflicts between farmers and nomadic herders. The ministers say seasonal movement of… Read more »
Africa: Conflict, Climate Change, Inequality Trigger Surge in Global Hunger
Hopes of ending hunger by the end of this decade have all but evaporated as multiple crises -- climate change, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, including… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Court Disqualifies Former Ruling Party Official From Elections
Zimbabwe's Electoral Court has disqualified a former minister and senior ruling party official who fled the country from running in next month's election. The court ruled Savior… Read more »
July 11, 2023
West Africa: Separatists Torch Trucks of Cocoa As Farmers Protest Ban on Exports to Nigeria
Cameroon's anglophone rebels have torched truckloads of cocoa that were bound for French-speaking towns as farmers protest a ban of exports to Nigeria. Read more »
South Africa: Business Groups Concerned As U.S. Reviews Trade Programme
South African business groups are pushing the government to make strong diplomatic efforts to ensure the country is not stripped of its duty-free access to the U.S. market. Read more »
Africa: WFP - Growing Number of Refugees From Sudan's Darfur Region Crossing Into Chad
The United Nations food agency says thousands of people are crossing the border into the central African nation of Chad from neighboring Sudan to escape the nearly three-month-old… Read more »
July 09, 2023
Somalia: New U.S. Airstrikes Kill Al-Shabaab Militants
The U.S. military says it has conducted three new airstrikes against al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, killing 10 militants overnight. Read more »
July 07, 2023
Senegal: Will Senegalese Leader's Decision to Step Down Affect Other African Leaders?
When President Macky Sall announced in a televised address Monday that he would not seek a third term, democracy advocates and opposition supporters in the country celebrated. Read more »
Cameroon: Cameroon Vaccinates for Measles, but Says Hesitancy Persists
Officials in Cameroon say vaccine hesitancy is preventing them from inoculating millions of children for childhood diseases in the first major campaign since the COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
Malawi: Malawi's President Orders Swahili to Be Taught in Schools
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the country's education authorities to immediately start introducing the Swahili language into the country's school curriculum for… Read more »
Sudan: Sudanese Citizens Have Mixed Reactions On Military Call for Youth
As fighting in Sudan enters its third month, the Sudanese military leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has reiterated his call for young people to take up arms against the paramilitary… Read more »
Kenya: Kenya Police Use Tear Gas On Tax Hike Protesters
Kenyan police have used tear gas on opposition-led protesters, who were demonstrating Friday against tax hikes, including the doubling of a tax on fuel. Read more »
Kenya: Kenya Special Forces Kill 23 Al-Shabab Militants
Security officials in Kenya said at least 23 al-Shabab fighters were killed by Kenyan Special forces during the ambush in Orgene village, in Mandera County in northeast Kenya. Read more »
July 06, 2023
Niger: Niger, China Discuss Uranium Mine and Other Deals
The West African nation of Niger and China have been discussing deals that include an industrial park, an oil pipeline and a uranium mine. Read more »
Malawi: Albinism Community in Malawi Demands an End to Attacks
The Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi, or APAM, is appealing for urgent intervention to stop continued attacks on people with albinism in the country. Read more »