The Nigerian government has criticised Saudi Arabia for executing a Nigerian woman for drug-related cases, describing the act as pathetic. According to the Saudi Interior Ministry, a Nigerian woman, two Pakistani men and a Yemeni man were charged for drug trafficking, and executed having been found guilty. The recent execution brought the number of people executed this year to 53. Speaking… Read more »
“The fake MencevaxTM ACWY vaccine has a manufacturing date of December 2016 and an expiring date of November 2021. Genuine MencevaxTM ACW and MencevaxTM ACWY vaccines are used to control outbreak of meningococcal infection.” BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAPR 04, W The general public has been alerted by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on the… Read more »
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis, putting President Trump on notice, warned on Sunday that those who close borders “will become prisoners of the walls that they build.” The remarks came as the pope was returning from a visit to Morocco, where he worked to further his priorities of supporting migrants and establishing closer relations between the Roman Catholic… Read more »
KAMPALA, Uganda — An American woman touring one of Uganda’s most popular safari destinations was kidnapped with her local guide on Tuesday evening and held for $500,000 in ransom, the authorities said. Ugandan security forces said on Wednesday that they were searching Queen Elizabeth National Park, the site of the abduction, for the two victims and their kidnappers. The kidnapped… Read more »
More than 60 people have been killed in tit-for-tat clashes between communities in northern Burkina Faso in recent days, the government said on Wednesday, the latest in a bout of inter-communal violence afflicting West Africa’s Sahel region. Burkina Faso and neighboring Mali have seen a spike in ethnic clashes fueled by Islamist militants as they seek to extend their influence… Read more »
BRUSSELS — Belgium apologized on Thursday for the kidnapping, segregation, deportation and forced adoption of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during its colonial rule of Burundi, Congo and Rwanda. The apology is the first time that Belgium has recognized any responsibility for what historians say was the immense harm the country inflicted on the Central African nations, which it colonized… Read more »
More than a quarter of people surveyed in Ebola-hit areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo told researchers they do not believe the disease exists. Some 36% of respondents also believed that the disease had been fabricated to destabilise the country. The authors of the study said this mistrust was a factor in prolonging the epidemic. The current outbreak started… Read more »
The Ebola virus has reared its head again, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While it is impossible to predict exactly where and when the next outbreak will occur, we now know much more about how to prevent a crisis. The news of an Ebola outbreak in the town of Bikoro in north-west DR Congo instantly brings to… Read more »
The US department of treasury has issued new sanctions against three officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo electoral commission, Ceni. These sanctions relate to the two-year delay in holding general elections originally scheduled in 2016. It comes a month after a visa ban was announced against the same officials and other high-profile members of former President Joseph Kabila’s government…. Read more »
South Africans have taken to Twitter to express their shock at videos of what appears to be a nursery school teacher who seems to be hitting children while forcing them to clean. In one of the videos, it looks like the woman forces a small boy to clean a rug and then repeatedly hits him on the head before tossing… Read more »
