aa.com Halima Athumani KAMPALA, Uganda A new weather pattern threatens to worsen food insecurity in Uganda’s northeastern Karamoja region, according to a report. The Ugandan government and the World Food Programme (WFP) released a study on Monday, which shows that the average monthly rainfall in the region has increased by two months over the last 35 years, thus leading to… Read more »
The Telegraph Adrian Blomfield To be born an English speaker in a world where the language remains the lingua franca of trade and diplomacy is normally to draw first prize in the linguistic lottery of life. But in one corner of Africa, having English as a mother tongue has proved a curse thanks to a colonial anomaly that left a… Read more »
France 24 Seyllou Seyllou The mayor of Senegal’s capital Dakar, Khalifa Sall, was charged with embezzlement of public funds and placed in custody on Tuesday, one of his lawyers told AFP. Sall, who has run the city since 2009 and had been seen as a possible presidential candidate, was charged with fraud involving public funds, misappropriation of public funds, criminal… Read more »
France 24 Zacharias Abubeker The death toll from the collapse of a landfill on the outskirts of Addis Ababa has risen to 62, state media said Monday, and dozens of people are still missing. The death toll has reached 62 from the collapse of a mountain of trash at a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, the… Read more »
The G20 finance ministers met last week in Germany to discuss critical challenges facing the global economy, from climate change to migration to humanitarian emergencies like the unfolding famine in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. I left the discussions encouraged by the shared commitment to deal with these key issues. I shared how the World Bank Group… Read more »
A new Islamic State affiliate is gaining strength in sub-Saharan Africa as part of efforts by the Syrian-based Islamist terror group to take over large parts of the continent. A relatively new group known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara has stepped up terrorist attacks in the swath of north Africa known as the Sahel. The Sahel is… Read more »
A human rights advocacy group, Save Humanity Advocacy Centre, has issued a seven-days ultimatum to Amnesty International (AI) for allegedly fuelling the survival of Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria through what it described as undermining of the country’s security agencies through negative reports and emboldening the terror group. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, Executive Secretary of the… Read more »
The people and governments of countries like Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan would be wishing they have the good fortunes of Nigeria. That fortune is for their countries to survive peacefully long enough to get rid of the catalyst of the disaster that befell them. Take away the catalyst and the situation doesn’t get aggravated. Leave it in place and… Read more »
Out of my four articles this week, I found the one about Morocco withdrawing from a buffer zone in the Western Sahara very interested. Recently Morocco was let back into the African Union after 33 years of leaving it. With its rejoining, it was looking to get some advantage over the long disputed territory, the Western Sahara. That is why… Read more »
The forces of eastern Libya’s military strongman Khalifa Haftar have lost control of a key oil export terminal they had seized last year, a spokesman conceded on Saturday.