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 to Article: https://www.africanews.com/2021/03/18/humanitarian-crisis-on-the-rise-in-cabo-delgado-mozambique/ According to the “Aid to the Church in Need” Foundation , cases of cholera and malaria are increasing among the more than 600 thousand displaced persons fleeing the armed attacks in the region. The camps have been abandoned and the current drought is making the situation even more difficult. The main road in Mozambique has also… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/gunmen-kidnap-primary-school-pupils-in-nigerias-northwest-kaduna Attackers have stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and seized three teachers. This kidnapping is the fifth mass school abduction since December. “The number of abductions in the north is just mind-boggling,” said Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. “It’s becoming the most lucrative criminal enterprise in Nigeria… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.africanews.com/2021/03/18/tanzania-to-swear-in-first-female-president-samia-hassan-suhulu/ After the recent death of John Magufuil, Samia Hassan Suluhu is set to become the first female president of Tanzania. Not only will she be the first female president in Tanzania, she will also become the first female president in East Africa. Samia Hassan Suluhu was also the first female vice president in Tanzania. She was… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/24/ghana-shuts-down-lgbt-office-rights-group Ghana security forces raided and shut down the office of an LGBTQ rights group in the capital. Gay sex is a criminal offence in the West African country and members of the LGBTQ community face widespread discrimination. The LGBTQ group’s director, Alex Donkor, told the AFP news agency that closing the centre was against human rights…. Read more »
Link to Article https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00076946.html Nigeria has been seeing a lot of kidnapping for ransom over the past couple of months, and the abducting of the school girls is not the first case. In December 2020, more than 344 boys were taken by gunmen and later released after negotiations allegedly between parents and the abductors. And a little more than a… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.theafricareport.com/68617/rwandan-farmers-take-advantage-of-chinese-opportunities/ With relations between China and Rwanda starting in 2018, many Rwandan farmers have been benefited tremendously by the new trade. Diego Twahirwa, a chilli farmer in Rwanda, has been exporting his produce to China since 2019. Twahirwa signed a life-changing agreement worth $100m with China’s Chinese GK International Enterprises to supply 50,000tn of chilli annually for… Read more »
Link to Article: https://www.africanews.com/2021/02/03/tanzania-minister-no-interest-in-procuring-covid-19-vaccines/ On Monday, Tanzania’s health minister Dorothy Gwajima told in a press conference that “the ministry has no plans to receive vaccines for COVID-19.” This comes just days after the president of the country expressed doubt about the vaccines without offering evidence. Any vaccines that come to the country must receive ministry approval. Tanzania’s government has been… Read more »
Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202102030691.html The Killings of people living with albinism is on the rise again in Malawi. The latest murder of a person living with albinism was reported on January 27th, 2021. Saidi Futon Dayton body was later earmarked for sale in Zomba. Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has condemned the killing of Saidi Futon Dayton, 27 from Kadewere… Read more »
