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 In January, Nigeria’s food prices surged past 20% which will have an increase amount of pressure on the average Nigerian household. With an ongoing global pandemic, Nigeria’s job market has taken a tremendous hit which causes even more financial pressure on people. Inflation is in the double digits since 2016 which is because of the drop in… Read more »
link to article Saturday, a gunmen released 42 people including 27 students who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger. The students release comes a day after a separate raid on another school in Nigeria where a gunmen seized more than 300 girls. Kidnappings are typically done for ransom by armed groups whom… Read more »
link to article Ousmane Sonko Senegal opposition chief is set to report to court over possible rape allegations brought against him. He has agreed to go to court as Senegals parliament voted last week to strip Sonko of his legal immunity. By stripping his legal immunity ist allows police to investigate the case. Controversy started when Sonko went to a… Read more »
link to article Tuesday Nigeria received 4 million doses of the COVAX vaccine. Nigeria is only the third country to receive the vaccines and with 200 million people in the country it will be difficult to decide who gets the vaccine first. Healthcare and front-line workers are supposed to be the first ones to get the vaccine. Emirates who is… Read more »
link to article On January 24, 2021, Tropical Cyclone Eloise brought wind gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour to Mozambique, eSwatini, and South Africa. Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster risk Management and Reduction (INGD) said investigations shown that Eloise had displaced 6,859 people. Families are in need of essential supplies like food, water, blankets, and shelter. Eloise ruined… Read more »
link to article On February 1, 2021 the UK handed four Zimbabwe security officials sanctions which prevent them from traveling to the UK and freeze any assets that are currently in UK banks. The leaders included Minister for State Security Owen Ncube, Central Intelligence Organisation chief, Isaac Moyo, Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner, General Godwin Matanga, and former commander of the… Read more »
link to article This past week the International Criminal Court found Dominic Owagen guilty of 61 crimes ranging from murder, rape, sexual enslavement, abducting children, torture, and pillaging. Ongwen was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) when he was a child and was convicted of a forced pregnancy for atrocities against seven women. Ongwen is facing life in prison… Read more »