Category: Africa

Yaoundé, Cameroon, January 10, 2020//-Two thirds of the world’s refugees live in cities, yet they are all too often an invisible underclass, left to fend for themselves without support.

Nairobi, Kenya, January 9, 2020//- Law enforcers have arrested five men in connection with the deadly attack on a military base in northern Kenya.

January 2, 2020//-Three people have been killed after a bus was attacked in Kenya close to the Somali border, local officials say.

December 28, 2019//-At least 12 people have died and others displaced following a downpour on Christmas night in Rwanda, the government has confirmed.

Kinshasa, DRC, December 27, 2019//– Efforts to eradicate the deadly Ebola have suffered a severe blow after an international medical humanitarian organisation ended its activities northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Manama, Bahrain, December 24, 2019/ — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain condemned the terrorist explosion targeting a hotel in Galkayo in the Federal Republic of Somalia which resulted in the death of a number of people and the injury of others.

December 14, 2019//-Sudan’s ex-president Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a social reform facility for corruption.

Kinshasa, DRC, December 9, 2019//- A British probe into alleged bribery incriminating a global mining and commodity trading group is the latest setback for the company already beset by scandals in the continent.

Nouadhibou, Mauritania, December 9, 2019/ — Mauritanian authorities in coordination with the governments of The Gambia and Senegal today began returning the 87 survivors of Wednesday’s fatal shipwreck to their countries of origin.

Banjul, Gambia, December 6, 2019//-Former members of Yahya Jammeh’s elite hit squad and his ex-allies have testified that the then Gambian president was responsible for the killing and torture of political opponents, rape and sexual assault of women.