A day long strike, excluding critical fields like pharmacies and hospitals, was issued by The Sudanese Trade Union Association on Tuesday. This strike call was being observed by a large amount of the population in the capital and a neighboring city. The strike, encouraged by the Sudanese Trade Union Association, was “a step in the direction of an across-the-board civil… Read more »
The Liberian police have formally charged the son of the country’s former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in connection with the unlawful overprinting of local currency worth millions of US dollars. Charles Sirleaf, the 61-year-old former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Liberia, was ordered by a court in the capital, Monrovia, on Monday to be held in jail pending the scheduling of the trial. Additionally, Sirleaf, former head of… Read more »
Cameroon may fall further into violence if the government does not stop hate speech by politicians and heavy-handed tactics by security forces, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. Long-running tensions have erupted into conflicts with separatists in the southwest and Islamists in the northwest, prompting crackdowns by security forces and leaving 1.3 million people in need of aid,… Read more »
At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, an illegal labor strike encouraged by the Kenya Aviation Workers Union has caused flights to be grounded and riot police to respond to the situation. To avoid unnecessary harm to native and foreign travelers, passengers have been advised not to come to the airport until the strike can be successfully suppressed…. Read more »
Morocco’s OCP Group, expects to reach a deal this year to build a Nigerian ammonia plant and to start production at a $3.7 billion chemical plant in Ethiopia by 2023/2024, the chief executive of its OCP Africa subsidiary told Reuters. The world’s largest phosphate exporter, which is 95 percent state-owned, is also considering a factory in Ghana in 2020 as… Read more »
The role of celebrities promoting charities in Africa has come under fire after a British politician accused a television presenter filmed in Uganda of being a “white savior” promoting colonial ideas of Africans being “helpless victims”. British charity Comic Relief, which enlists celebrities to help raise funds for the world’s poorest communities, faced harsh criticism from opposition Labor lawmaker David… Read more »
Cape Town — Visiting people in their homes to offer them HIV tests, and referring those who test positive to local clinics, can significantly reduce new infections in a community, according to the world’s biggest study on how to cut HIV infection rates. The results of the study, carried out in 21 communities in urban and peri-urban areas of Zambia… Read more »
The Sudanese Trade Union Association and several opposition parties issued a call for a one-day general strike on Tuesday, excluding critical fields like pharmacies and hospitals. Witness reports in the capital Khartoum and its sister city Omdurman indicate the strike call was being observed by the overwhelming majority of the population. Arab news channels broadcast amateur video of empty streets… Read more »
Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed just after take-off from a remote island in Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya, officials said on Monday. The aircraft came down in Central Island National Park at around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Kenya’s National Police Service said on its Twitter feed, killing all on board. The cause of… Read more »
The cause of the incident which took place during the early hours of March 4, 2019 is yet to be known. Traders of the Elig-Edzoa Market in Yaounde are still in shock after discovering that fire has destroyed a great portion of the market during the early hours of Monday, March 4, 2019. Eye witness account tells Cameroon Tribune (CT)… Read more »