Link: https://allafrica.com/stories/202103260310.html Zimbabwe’s government has received $160 million in the past seven years for health support and the establishment of new hospitals from the EU which is administered through the multi-donor health development fund. It is reported that the EU has been supporting Zimbabwe’s health programs since 2006. Finance and health development minister Mthuli Ncube reports that the Zimbabwe government… Read more »
Link: https://allafrica.com/stories/202103280152.html The human rights watch recently said that Mozambique authorities should take urgent measures to protect the civilians fleeing an armed Islamist group in Palma of the northern Cabo Delgado province. The terrorist group is known locally as Al-Shabab and Al-Sunna, which are both linked to the Islamic state (ISIS). Palma is a very gas rich town which seems… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/liberia-gets-us17-2-m-to-protect-west-point-against-coastal-erosion/ On March 19th, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) permitted a $17.2 Million grant for the Monrovia Metropolitan Climate Resilience Project. The purpose of the grant is to fund prevention methods for coastal erosion throughout West Point. West Point is a small peninsula in Liberia. Because of the land’s proximity to the ocean, it is currently experiencing… Read more »
Link: https://allafrica.com/stories/202103250078.html Botswana is planning to issue almost 300 hunting licenses next month for the first hunting season since the ban was lifted in 2019. Last years hunting season was put on pause after the Coronavirus pandemic, but Botswana’s department of wildlife and national parks will issue 300 licenses, 100 of them being elephant hunting licenses. The trophy hunting ban… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/eu-holds-political-dialogue-with-liberia/ Liberia and the European Union (EU) have met for their 9th EU-Liberia Political Dialogue. The meeting was a part of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. This agreement is between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries (ACP). The purpose of the Cotonou Agreement is to fight poverty and begin to integrate the ACP states into… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/19/us-calls-on-somalia-to-hold-elections-immediately Somalia has missed the deadline to hold elections by February 8 when President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was due to step down, sparking a constitutional crisis in the already-fragile state. A coalition of opposition candidates now considers the president to be illegitimate and wants him to resign. The United States called on Somalia to hold elections right… Read more »
Link: https://allafrica.com/stories/202103180091.html Botswana has drawn media attention as they have been repatriating refugees from Zimbabwe. About 300 refugees fled Zimbabwe after political violence stemming former president Robert Mugabe’s loss in the 2008 presidential election. Botswana has been taking precautionary measures when repatriating these refugees to avoid any COVID outbreaks. Botswana’s director of refugee management says, “those who are being repatriated… Read more »
link to article Thursday, the loved, loathed, and feared president of Tanzania John Magufuli died as a result of a ‘heart condition’ at a hospital in Dar-Es-Salaam, an illness she said he had been battling for the last 10 years. Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said the country will begin a two week mourning period, as funeral preparations are underway…. Read more »
link to article More than 200 people have been killed and an estimated 40,000 people have been displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January in attack attributed to armed groups connected to terrorist group ISIS. The United Nations has said an alarming increase of attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Since the start of the year… Read more »
Link to article- https://allafrica.com/stories/202103190472.html Seychelles plans to reopen its borders on March 25 without any restrictions after almost all of their population has received the vaccine. The only requirement for those entering the country is a negative COVID test 72 hours before traveling. When their country shut down due to the pandemic, the effects on their economy were severe due… Read more »
