Category: Africa

June 30, 2019//-Eritrea has hit out at critics of the recent policy of seizing and shutting all Catholic-run health centres.

Dakar, Senegal, June 27, 2019/ — Three women have accused Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, of rape and sexual assault while he was in office, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International said today.

Aden, Yemen, June 22, 2019/- A flight chartered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) with 96 migrants on board took off from Yemen, headed for Ethiopia.

June 19, 2019//-Some of Nigeria’s leading bank executives came together to show solidary with their fellow Nigerians affected by the ongoing crisis in Borno State.

June 17, 2019//-Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in 2013, has died after fainting in a courtroom, state TV says.

Juba, South Sudan, June 17, 2019/ — The number of people facing a critical lack of food in South Sudan is the highest ever, three United Nations agencies have warned. 

Mopti, Mali, June 14, 2019/ — The deadly attack on Sunday (09/06) in the village of Sobane in central Mali, which killed 35 villagers – and 60 are still missing – continues to displace people to Mopti, one of the largest towns in central Mali.

Nairobi, Kenya, June 12, 2019/ — Red Cross teams are on high alert following the confirmation of the first Ebola case in Uganda.

June 12, 2019//-The Chairman of the Alliance for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (ASDA), Dr Prosper Ladislas Agbesi, has called on the leadership of the ECOWAS Sub-region and the international community to step into the political situation in Benin and bring order in the interest of the people.

June 10, 2019//-Nearly 100 people have been killed in an attack in a village in central Mali inhabited by the Dogon ethnic group, officials say.