June 08, 2022
Algeria: Algeria Suspends 20-Year Friendship Treaty With Spain
Algeria has suspended a two-decade-old friendship treaty with Spain. Read more »
June 07, 2022
Malawi: IMF Sets Conditions for Aid to Resume
Malawi wants renewed access to the International Monetary Fund's Extended Credit Facility, or ECF, after a two-year halt. Read more »
South Africa: Language Groups Demand Ryanair Stop Using Afrikaans Test
South Africa's language authorities have denounced Irish airline Ryanair for requiring a test in Afrikaans for all South Africans before they can fly to Britain. Afrikaans is… Read more »
South Africa: Citizens React to Arrest of Zuma Allies Accused of Stealing Billions
South Africans were relieved Tuesday to learn that two businessmen who've been fugitives since being accused of looting billions of dollars from the state have been arrested in… Read more »
Cameroon: Children Protest Abuses in Separatist Conflict
Several hundred children marched through the streets of Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé, on June 6 holding placards that called for an end to the use of child soldiers in the… Read more »
Somalia: UN - Without Action, Famine Looms for Somalia
The United Nations warned Tuesday that Somalia is at risk of another famine, as consecutive droughts have withered crops and killed scores of livestock, and grain imports from… Read more »
Somalia: Famine and Death Stalk Children in Somalia
U.N. agencies are warning of famine in Somalia and a surge of child deaths across the Horn of Africa if their appeals for urgently needed funds to save the lives of hundreds of… Read more »
Ethiopia: Police Refuse to Release Journalists Granted Bail
Ethiopia Holding Journalists in Detention Centers Without Charge Read more »
June 06, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Accuses Drivers of Delivering Unapproved Fuel, Equipment to Tigray
Amid efforts to provide aid to millions of people in Tigray, the Ethiopian federal government says commercial drivers of aid trucks are smuggling in banned products. Read more »
Mali: Mali Junta Adopts 24-Month Transition to Democratic Rule
Mali's military junta will take 24 months from March 2022 to restore civilian rule after an August 2020 coup, its spokesman said on Monday, the latest move in negotiations with… Read more »
Guinea: Guinea Prosecutor Deepens Probe Into Protest Killing
A Guinean public prosecutor on Monday ordered a list of all police officers present when a young man was killed during demonstrations last week, in a significant shift from past… Read more »
Nigeria: Residents Organize Blood Drive After Massacre At Nigerian Church
Police in southwestern Nigeria are investigating a massacre at a Catholic church Sunday at least 50 people dead, according to media reports. Meanwhile, residents in the city of Owo… Read more »
June 05, 2022
Nigeria: Dozens Feared Dead in Nigeria Church Attack
Dozens of worshippers were feared dead in an attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria on Sunday, state lawmakers said. Read more »
June 04, 2022
Cameroon: Cameroon, CAR Join Forces to Fight Rebels On Border
A commission of senior security and state officials from the troubled Central African Republic and Cameroon has agreed to jointly fight armed C.A.R. rebels they say are fleeing… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigerian Mob Sets Man Ablaze Over Alleged Blasphemy
Nigerian authorities in the capital city of Abuja on Saturday said they're investigating the killing and burning of a man by a mob over accusations of blasphemy. Blasphemy has been… Read more »
Africa: China Looks to Africa in Race for Lithium
It is the new gold rush, and China is leading the hunt as prices surge. Only it's not gold everyone's looking for, it's lithium. Many say the future of electric vehicle production… Read more »
June 03, 2022
Somalia: Somalia Announces U.S. Airstrike Against Al-Shabaab
The United States has targeted al-Qaida-linked fighters in Somalia, launching its first airstrike since announcing U.S. special operations forces would again be based in the Horn… Read more »
Africa: African Union Chair Meets Putin to Discuss Food Insecurity
The top African Union official met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine and its effects on Africa. A cutoff in grain exports has heightened food… Read more »
June 02, 2022
Central Africa: Central African Republic Refugees Leave Cameroon On Promises of Peace
Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon have started returning home after fleeing political and sectarian violence there since 2014. There are around 300,000 C.A.R. refugees… Read more »
June 01, 2022
Nigeria: Church Leader Says Huge Ransom Was Paid for His Release
A clergyman of Nigeria's Methodist Church has revealed the church paid a ransom of nearly a quarter-million dollars for his release. Gunmen abducted the prelate Sunday while he was… Read more »
East Africa: Aid Agencies - Some 20 Million Could Face Starvation in East Africa
Aid agencies warn the number of people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa is expected to reach 20 million by the end of September without a stronger response to an ongoing… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Journalist in Distress? Zimbabwe Has an App for That
A new app is helping Zimbabwe's journalists stay safe in environments in which they are at risk. Read more »
May 31, 2022
Nigeria: Manufacturers Struggle With Wheat, Energy Shortages
Mmachukwu Orizu started her baby formula business six years ago after quitting her former job as a medical lab scientist. Read more »
Somalia: Drought Affects Almost Half of Somalia As Famine Looms
At a news conference in Mogadishu, Somalia's special envoy for humanitarian issues on Monday said more than six million Somalis were affected by the record drought. Read more »
Kenya: Fugitive Wanted for Wildlife, Drug Trafficking Arrested
One of two Kenyans wanted for alleged involvement in wildlife and drug trafficking has been arrested in a joint U.S.-Kenyan operation. The U.S. government had announced a reward… Read more »