Donald Trump may routinely rail against the “fake news media”, but Egypt is going one better by cracking down on “fake” weather reports. The head of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority has said it is the only government body authorised to make predictions about the country’s weather, and is preparing a draft law to ban unauthorised forecasts. Ahmed Abdel-Al, the EMA… Read more »
Late last year, as the South African government faced the prospect of its largest city running out of water, they took an unprecedented gamble. The government announced “Day Zero” – a moment when dam levels would be so low that they would turn off the taps in Cape Town and send people to communal water collection points. This apocalyptic notion… Read more »
A US-owned local radio station has been shut down for insulting women in Rwanda, authorities say. The Amazing Grace Christian Radio, a radio station that airs religious sermons, had its broadcasting license revoked after one of its presenters, Nicolas Niyibikora, repeatedly referred to women as evil, Rwanda officials said. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) announced it had taken away… Read more »
At least 100 people have died and nearly 260,000 have been displaced by flooding in Kenya this month, the Kenyan Red Cross announced Thursday. Kenyan authorities and humanitarian organizations have been working to airlift stranded residents to safety and provide aid to isolated communities after weeks of heavy rain and landslides. The flooding comes as many continue to recover from… Read more »
In Rwanda’s Kiziba camp, which holds 17,000 Congolese refugees, there was recently an attack on officials that were visiting the camp. There were 23 Congolese refugees that did the attack. They pelted the officers with stones. Following the attack, hundreds of police officers entered the camp and fought back with the refugees. With one casualty and one injured child, we… Read more »
Rwandan police have arrested 23 Congolese refugees after senior police officers and government officials were pelted with stones during a visit to a refugee camp, authorities said after two days of clashes. The officials visiting western Rwanda’s Kiziba camp, home to 17,000 Congolese refugees, were attacked on Monday. Police responded by firing teargas at the refugees, injuring at least one… Read more »
International conservationists in Madagascar have been treating more than 10,000 critically endangered radiated tortoises that were seized from traffickers who crammed the creatures into a home with no access to food or water. The Turtle Survival Alliance and other groups are caring for the tortoises at a wildlife facility in the Ifaty region of the Indian Ocean nation, although hundreds… Read more »
Media captionBBC Africa investigation: Nigeria’s deadly codeine cough syrup epidemic Four pharmaceutical companies have been raided in Nigeria after a BBC investigation into the role of cough syrup containing codeine in an addiction epidemic. The firms are in Lagos, Ilorin and Kano, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control said. Nigeria this week announced a ban on… Read more »
least 24 people were killed Tuesday in twinsecond bomber, who was a few hundred meters away, also detonated his device, killing another 20 people, Abubakar said. bomb blasts in a mosque in northeast Nigeria. The incident occurred in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State at 1 p.m. A spokesman for the Adamawa State police said the bombers were positioned in different… Read more »
CNN)Zimbabwe has just legalized growing marijuana for medicinal and research purposes — and several other African governments are considering tapping into the lucrative natural resource too. More than 10,000 tons of cannabis are produced on the continent each year, according to a UN survey, which advocates believe could be worth billions of dollars in a rapidly expanding global market for… Read more »