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-- 2021-12-31 15:13:19
Ethiopia wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5 billion) to help finance programmes to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian aid, the finance ministry said...
-- 2021-12-29 16:22:22
At least 31 people were killed in the collapse of a private gold mine in western Sudan, a mining official said on Tuesday. "Thirty-one bodies were recovered after the collapse of a gold mine in En Na...
-- 2021-12-26 15:16:07
"Like falling in love" is how Archbishop Desmond Tutu described voting in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, a remark that captured both his puckish humour and his profound emotions aft...
-- 2021-12-26 13:55:56
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule died on Sunday at the age of 90, the presidency said. In 1984 Tutu won the Nobel...
-- 2021-12-26 11:30:20
A suicide bomber struck a restaurant in the city of Beni in east Congo on Saturday, killing at least five people as well as himself, officials said. The attack marks the latest violence in a region w...
-- 2021-12-26 10:46:21
The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for coronavirus and was in isolation. Shehu, who is in his late 50s, is in the immediate circle of 79-...
-- 2021-12-22 19:19:14
Libya's parliament said Friday's planned presidential election would not go ahead, leaving the internationally-backed peace process in chaos and the fate of the interim government in doubt, reports Re...
-- 2021-12-17 19:36:08
South Africa's health minister said on Friday that the government believed that vaccines and high levels of prior COVID-19 infection were helping to keep disease milder in a wave driven by the omicron...
-- 2021-12-17 18:52:50
Clashes between herders, fishermen and farmers in the far north of Cameroon have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes in the past two weeks, creating a humanitarian emergency, the United Na...
-- 2021-12-13 21:11:06
At least sixteen people have been killed when a speeding bus ran into a truck on a highway in Nigeria's northeast Bauchi state, police said on Monday. The collision happened in Bambal village along t...
-- 2021-12-13 12:41:09
South Africa's 69-year-old President Cyril Ramaphosa tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, though is showing only mild symptoms, the presidency said. "The President started feeling unwell after lea...
-- 2021-12-12 20:46:58
Thirteen people have been killed and 17 others were rescued following a shipwreck overnight from Saturday to Sunday on the Congo River near the Ibali village, Mai-Ndombe province, in the Western Democ...
-- 2021-12-10 18:49:57
South African scientists see no sign that the omicron coronavirus variant is causing more severe illness, they said on Friday, as officials announced plans to roll out vaccine boosters with daily infe...
-- 2021-12-10 18:36:54
At least 14 people died in a car crash in the Otjozondjupa region after a minibus and a sedan collided and caught fire on Friday, Namibian police said. According to the incident report, 14 occupants...
-- 2021-12-09 18:48:41
The Serum Institute of India, the world's biggest vaccine maker, let Africa down by pulling out of talks to supply COVID-19 vaccines, creating distrust that has affected demand, the head of the Africa...
-- 2021-12-09 15:00:34
Three United Nations staff members were injured when their vehicle came under fire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, their agency said. Unidentified gunmen attacked a vehicle of t...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-09 13:09:07
The World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended distribution of food aid in two northern Ethiopian towns after gunmen looted its warehouses. Looters from rebel Tigrayan forces held aid staff at gunpoint...
-- 2021-12-08 15:22:16
At least 30 passengers on a bus in Nigeria's Sokoto state were burnt to death when gunmen torched it on Tuesday, police and residents said, in yet another reminder of growing insecurity in Africa's mo...
-- 2021-12-08 10:55:36
Up to one million Covid-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters news agency, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows t...
-- 2021-12-07 21:26:03
Africa needs to make its own vaccines to avoid a repeat of its supply problems in the COVID-19 pandemic but faces big obstacles in turning itself from a pharmaceutical testing ground into a place wher...
-- 2021-12-06 11:58:41
Africa has little chance of overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic unless 70 per cent of its population is vaccinated by end-2022, yet "extreme vaccine discrimination" is leaving the continent behind, a rep...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-04 19:49:25
Some 70 kidnapped people have regained their freedom after being held for over a month by unidentified gunmen who abducted them in recent attacks in the country's northwestern state of Kaduna, a relig...
-- 2021-12-02 20:55:14
South Africa is seeing an increase in COVID-19 reinfections due to the omicron variant but symptoms for reinfected patients and those infected after vaccination appear to be mild, a scientist studying...
-- 2021-12-01 19:11:43
At least 20 people were killed and seven others hospitalised after an overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria's northern state of Kano Tuesday evening, local authorities said Wednesday. "The boat was fer...
-- 2021-11-30 20:48:33
Sudanese security forces deployed tear gas on tens of thousands of protesters gathering in central Khartoum on Tuesday to oppose military rule following last month's coup. Neighbourhood resistance co...
-- 2021-11-27 21:14:06
South Africa said on Saturday it was being punished for its advanced ability to detect new COVID-19 variants early, like travel bans and restrictions imposed after detecting the new Omicron variant th...
-- 2021-11-21 19:40:52
Sudan's ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is to be reinstated, after being placed under house arrest during a military coup last month. All political detainees will be released as part of a new ag...
-- 2021-11-18 10:33:44
Security forces shot dead at least 15 people and wounded dozens as thousands of Sudanese took to the streets on Wednesday on the deadliest day in a month of demonstrations against military rule, medic...
-- 2021-11-17 21:45:38
Mobile phone lines inside Sudan were cut on Wednesday as protesters gathered across the capital Khartoum and other cities for demonstrations against a military takeover, Reuters witnesses said. By ea...
-- 2021-11-15 13:09:04
Sudanese security forces raided the home of Al Jazeera's Khartoum bureau chief and arrested him on Sunday, the Qatar-based news channel said, a day after street protests across Sudan against a militar...
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