More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amidst a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday. The once-fringe English-speaking movement in majority French-speaking Cameroon has gathered pace in the last few months after a military crackdown on protests, leading it to declare independence in October for a breakaway “Ambazonia”… Read more »
TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan Navy said on Wednesday that its Coast Guard had rescued at least 279 migrants off the coast of Libya, but that about 100 more were missing and feared dead. The migrants, mostly Africans, had been packed into several vessels hoping to cross the Mediterranean and reach southern Europe. The missing appeared to have all been… Read more »
At least seven people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday amid protests against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down from power, a UN spokesperson said. Security forces shot dead at least seven people in Kinshasa, said Florence Marchal, spokeswoman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo. Another person was killed in a protest in the… Read more »
Improved human well-being is one of the modern era’s greatest triumphs. The age of plenty has also led to an unexpected global health crisis: two billion people are either overweight or obese. Developed countries have been especially susceptible to unhealthy weight gain, a trend that could be considered the price of abundance. However, developing countries are now facing a similar… Read more »
This Ethiopian issue with trying to make their country more presentable, and trying to make it one of the most rich and most lively towns is ridiculous and heres why. Little to zero countries in Africa are extremely prosperous and none of them seriously are economically stable enough to traffic tourists are a rate that your city would be super… Read more »
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)He is arguably one of the most successful businessmen in Africa and Strive Masiyiwa has an urgent message for young Africans: “You don’t have to cross the Sahara. We can create solutions.” It’s a timely message. Many of Africa’s youth are perishing, risking their lives in perilous journeys across the Sahara desert on their way to Europe. Some… Read more »
Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Cabinet that includes ruling party loyalists as well as figures linked to the military, whose takeover helped oust former leader Robert Mugabe. No opposition politicians are included in the list, which has been seen as the first test of whether Mnangwgwa, a longtime Mugabe ally, would move out of his shadow…. Read more »
Wrapped in a white shawl and sporting a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, Haile stares out at his cattle as they graze in a rocky patch of grass. “My family and I have been here since I was a child,” he says, nodding at the small, rickety houses to his right. “But we will have to leave soon.” In the distance loom… Read more »
wn critic of Cameroonian president Paul Biya has been arrested at the airport while he was about to leave for Zimbabwe, media reports in the country have said. He is said to be in the custody of the police. Patrice Nganang is said to have recently authored an article in the popular French magazine Jeune Afrique. The article criticised the… Read more »
In modern times sickness has the ability to be treated depending on the severity of the disease. In this case, unfortunately, it is getting harder and harder to vaccinate and prevent what has began to spread to the UK. Currently, around 150 people have died and around 1,100 cases of the Black-Death-like virus as well as bubonic and pneumonic plague… Read more »
