A day long strike, excluding critical fields like pharmacies and hospitals, was issued by The Sudanese Trade Union Association on Tuesday. This strike call was being observed by a large amount of the population in the capital and a neighboring city. The strike, encouraged by the Sudanese Trade Union Association, was “a step in the direction of an across-the-board civil… Read more »
Cape Town — Visiting people in their homes to offer them HIV tests, and referring those who test positive to local clinics, can significantly reduce new infections in a community, according to the world’s biggest study on how to cut HIV infection rates. The results of the study, carried out in 21 communities in urban and peri-urban areas of Zambia… Read more »
The Sudanese Trade Union Association and several opposition parties issued a call for a one-day general strike on Tuesday, excluding critical fields like pharmacies and hospitals. Witness reports in the capital Khartoum and its sister city Omdurman indicate the strike call was being observed by the overwhelming majority of the population. Arab news channels broadcast amateur video of empty streets… Read more »
The cause of the incident which took place during the early hours of March 4, 2019 is yet to be known. Traders of the Elig-Edzoa Market in Yaounde are still in shock after discovering that fire has destroyed a great portion of the market during the early hours of Monday, March 4, 2019. Eye witness account tells Cameroon Tribune (CT)… Read more »
The Nigerian government has condemned the ejection of her citizens who are taking refuge in Cameroon by the country’s authorities. A statement issued by the Federal National Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Sadiya Farouq, accused the Cameroonian government of flouting the United Nations Convention on Refugees and its 167 Protocol. He said the… Read more »
Britain was told, by the World Court, that they will no longer be able to have control of the Chagos Islands, in the Indian Ocean. A reason for this was that Britain had forced the population out in order to make room for a United States air base in the 1970’s. They moved 2,000 people to the Island of Mauritius… Read more »
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Until last week the number one topic that Algerian engineer Mohamed Aissiou and his mates would discuss over coffee was soccer. Specifically, local star Riyad Mahrez and his English club Manchester City. Now it’s all about whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika should go. Many Algerians have for years avoided politics in public, fearing trouble from the ubiquitous security… Read more »
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The World Court on Monday told Britain to give up control over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and said it had wrongfully forced the population to leave in the 1970s to make way for a U.S. air base.An undated file photo shows Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of… Read more »
Former president Robert Mugabe yesterday warned his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, that power does not last forever as he strongly condemned the deployment of soldiers to quell the January 14 protests. Mnangagwa on February 16 boasted that he deployed the army to deal with violent protesters despite complaints by human rights groups that soldiers had allegedly killed at least 17 people… Read more »
The Iranian ambassador to Kenya is caught up in a criminal investigation over a daring plot to free two terror suspects from police custody, with the potential to trigger a diplomatic row. On Friday, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) arrested two suspects alleged to have defrauded ambassador Hadi Farajvand of an unknown amount of money after introducing… Read more »