Abuja, Nigeria – Four years ago, several members of Abdullahi Muhammad’s family were killed, setting off a series of events that led him to become an outspoken critic of the government. Now 32, Muhammad, a member of the country’s Shia Muslim minority, says he would give his life “to fight tyranny”. In 2015, he had travelled to Nigeria’s northwestern city of… Read more »
PHOLA, South Africa — President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa assumed power promising a “new dawn.” But just over a year later, he can’t keep the nation’s lights on. A month before a national election, the worst rolling blackouts in years are regularly plunging South Africans into the dark. With annoying frequency, warnings of “load-shedding” pop up on cellphones, referring… Read more »
Nigeria‘s top judge has been sacked by a tribunal that found him guilty of falsely declaring his assets. Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen was banned from office for 10 years on Thursday and ordered to forfeit any assets he could not account for to the state. Onnoghen’s suspension in January by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, just weeks before a presidential election, prompted allegations of… Read more »
Unidentified gunmen abducted two Cuban doctors and shot dead a police officer near Kenya’s border with Somalia, Kenyan media reported on Friday. The Daily Nation said the attackers drove off with the doctors, who are employed by the Kenyan government, after the shooting in Mandera in the northeast of the country. KTN News said police suspected the doctors and their abductors,… Read more »
KINSHASA, Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered after another boat sinking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Tuesday, a week after a vessel capsized with nearly 130 people on board. Sixteen survivors were found near the spot where the boat sunk on a river in the country’s east on April 9, acting governor Papy Omeonga Tchopa of Maniema province… Read more »
This week during my search for articles for region report, the article that caught my interest most was about the revolution happening in Algeria. The government and the people do not agree on who should lead. Algeria’s army chief of staff said he that he expects the judiciary or courts to prosecute what the people’s protests call the corrupt ruling… Read more »
The Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development located in Mozambique needs $50 million dollars from the United States to restore forests in Mozambique. Recently, there has been a conference held in Maputo about managing forests and deforestation. At the conference there was talk about Mozambique’s trade partner giving money to aid the environmental problems in Mozambique. The reason for… Read more »
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam did not have traffic signs, speed bumps or footpaths outside many schools, although children walking to class were being hit by cars on a regular basis. So SARSAI, a small non-profit program in Africa, got the government’s permission to install these features itself, reducing child injuries by 26 percent… Read more »
Recently in Tanzania, many school children have been walking back and forth to school, and have been victim to danger. The kids have to walk miles and miles home along busy roads, where unfortunately they are being struck down by motorist on the roads. In Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam, is where most of these accidents are happening. The… Read more »
This week in Sub-Saharan Africa, my article was on South Africa’s economic growth. This article states that Africa’s’ economy will take even longer to recover due to some of their countries issues, the lack of investors, and the lack of technology. The World Bank is predicting that Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth rate will decline from growing at 3.3% to 2.8%. A… Read more »