People from Seychelles are not allowed to travel to China except returning Chinese residents until further notice due to the coronavirus threat, the Ministry of Health said in a travel advisory update on Tuesday. The Ministry added that local travel agents and services have been requested to advise all clients from China who were planning to visit Seychelles for the coming months to… Read more »
At least 31 people have died in Madagascar after a week of heavy rains in the country’s northwest, officials said. At least 15 people remained missing on the popular tourist island, according to the country’s national disaster management office, as flooding intensified in the districts of Mitsinjo and Maevatanana. The tropical Indian Ocean nation is in the midst of an… Read more »
A prominent Malawian banker has been arrested in connection with a suspected attempt to bribe a panel of five judges presiding over the country’s presidential election vote-rigging case. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said it arrested Thomson Mpinganjira on Wednesday after receiving a complaint on December 8 alleging that some people were attempting to bribe the judges of the Constitutional Court. “Dr… Read more »
Kenya’s High Court has halted a controversial biometric ID scheme until new data protection laws are enacted. Sensitive information, such as contact details, fingerprints and a person’s profession, was collected last year. The idea was to integrate all the data the government has about an individual on various systems under one overarching ID number. The judges ruled the move was… Read more »
Families protest amid claims men who went to work in UAE were given military training and then sent to Libya to guard oil fieldsGlobal development is supported by Kaamil Ahmed Fri 31 Jan 2020 07.31 ESTLast modified on Fri 31 Jan 2020 07.47 EST Sudan’s government has been accused of failing young men who claim they were tricked into guarding Libyan oil facilities by… Read more »
A study is looking into the coercive practice in Uganda, amid calls for the government to address the issue Global development is supported by Louise Hunt Tue 28 Jan 2020 06.45 ESTLast modified on Tue 28 Jan 2020 11.16 EST Jane’s* husband likes breast milk. “He says he likes the taste of it, and that it helps him in terms of his health. He feels… Read more »
Across Kenya, students are starting to speak out and challenge a problem they say plagues the country’s campuses. by Louise Donovan29 Jan 2020 Nairobi, Kenya – Diana perched on a brown bench in one of Nairobi University’s large lecture theatres, twisting her fingers into pretzel-like shapes. She scanned the room. To her left, students waited eagerly to hear her story. To… Read more »
The journalists work for Iwacu, one of the few remaining private media organisations in the East African nation. 23 hours ago. A court in Burundi has sentenced four journalists to two and a half years in prison for trying to undermine state security. They were arrested in October in Musigati district in western Bubanza Province while covering an incursion of rebels from… Read more »
Dozens of people are feared dead following an attack by Islamic militants on a village in Burkina Faso, the latest bloody incident in an unprecedented surge of violence across the restive Sahel region. Details of the attack, which occurred on Saturday and targeted the village of Silgadji in the northern Soum province, were still unclear on Tuesday but a security official said… Read more »
Deadly attacks come as tensions grow between president and supporters of his predecessor Jason Burke Africa correspondent Fri 31 Jan 2020 00.00 ESTLast modified on Fri 31 Jan 2020 04.38 EST A militia group has launched a series of bloody attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, plunging the country further into instability after months of violence and political tension. The Allied… Read more »