A British charity called Comic Relief, is under fire when television presenter Stacey Dooley was showed holding a black child as an effort to raise funds for some of the world’s poorest communities. Comic Relief is a charity that enlists celebrities to help raise funds for less fortunate communities and so far has raised nearly $106 million. Dooley was shown… 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 »
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 »
Rwanda on Tuesday accused Uganda of supporting rebel groups opposed to President Paul Kagame’s government, amid a resurgence of hostility between the African neighbors. Relations between the two nations soured last week after Rwanda blocked Ugandan cargo trucks from entering its territory at the busiest crossing point, Katuna, and barred its nationals from crossing into Uganda. Officials in Kigali say… Read more »
After losing in the October presidential election, Cameroon’s main opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, led a small rally against the long-serving President Paul Biya. The rally is costing Kamto after it was broken up by gun fire and wounding six people. These weren’t the last of the anti-biya protest. Many have had to be put down across the country by security… Read more »
In a campaign video featuring images of fireballs and flashing lights, Senegalese President Macky Sall is depicted in front of an express train, a motorway, a glass high-rise and then a sports arena. The video montage, describing Sall as an innovator, visionary and entrepreneur, draws attention to big-ticket construction projects in a $16.5-billion development program which he hopes will win… Read more »
Uganda has deported the chief executive of MTN Uganda, the largest telecoms firm in Uganda which is part of South Africa’s MTN Group, over national security concerns. The move follows the East African country’s deportation last month of three senior MTN Uganda executives who were alleged to have planned to compromise national security. Wim Vanhelleputte, a Belgian national, had been… Read more »
Cameroon’s main opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, has been charged in a military court with rebellion and seven other offences, indictments that could carry the death penalty, his lawyers said on Wednesday. Kamto lost what he says was a fraudulent presidential election in October and was detained late last month after organizing a small rally against long-serving President Paul Biya. Security… Read more »
Images of a rare African black leopard have been captured in Kenya, the first verifiable record of the animal for nearly 100 years, researchers have said. Using motion-sensitive cameras set up near water holes, researchers from San Diego Zoo Global and the Loisaba Conservancy captured video of the largely nocturnal cat after receiving reports of sightings from local pastoralists in… Read more »