As a tropical cyclone swirls right off the coast of Madagascar, flooding has become a huge problem. Dumazile, the name of the storm, is two days old and moves at a slow rate of 17 km per hour. With the rate the storm is moving at, we can expect monsoon type weather for some time. Record rainfall records are being… Read more »
The view of the Atlantic Ocean from Tubman Boulevard on any given day is nothing less than picturesque. On a sunny day, it is a beautiful solid blue. The walk from the main road to the ocean is probably half a mile long; but not for long. A few years from now, we may just be driving along that coastal… Read more »
Flooding is gripping Madagascar as a tropical cyclone swirls close to the island. The storm, named Dumazile, formed two days ago and since then has been throwing torrential rain across Madagascar. The cyclone is moving painfully slowly, at only 17 kilometres per hour, ensuring the heavy rain continues to fall for a prolonged period. In the north of the island… Read more »
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has insisted on taxing religious material imported into the country, the privately-owned Daily Monitor reported on Tuesday. The move has been met by resistance from the two main religious groups in the country – Christians and Muslims. It follows a plan by government months back, to tax social media. An umbrella body for religious groups, the… Read more »
If the Oscar-winning performance by Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years A Slave” was in a Kenyan movie, her film probably would have been banned for being too obscene. That is how dumb Kenya’s content regulations have become, with an overzealous censorship board and a public that seems to believe any material it disagrees with should be banned. “Rafiki,” a lesbian love story directed by Wanuri Kahiu,… Read more »
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has appointed an Advisor to directly supervise operations of Sovereign Bank. Sources say the action took place around the time that the regulator appointed an administrator to take over the management of UNIBANK earlier this year. JOYBUSINESS understand the regulator took the action because it was not happy with the state of affairs at the Bank. Sovereign… Read more »
In Rwanda’s Kiziba camp, which holds 17,000 Congolese refugees, there was recently an attack on officials that were visiting the camp. There were 23 Congolese refugees that did the attack. They pelted the officers with stones. Following the attack, hundreds of police officers entered the camp and fought back with the refugees. With one casualty and one injured child, we… Read more »
Rwandan police have arrested 23 Congolese refugees after senior police officers and government officials were pelted with stones during a visit to a refugee camp, authorities said after two days of clashes. The officials visiting western Rwanda’s Kiziba camp, home to 17,000 Congolese refugees, were attacked on Monday. Police responded by firing teargas at the refugees, injuring at least one… Read more »
International conservationists in Madagascar have been treating more than 10,000 critically endangered radiated tortoises that were seized from traffickers who crammed the creatures into a home with no access to food or water. The Turtle Survival Alliance and other groups are caring for the tortoises at a wildlife facility in the Ifaty region of the Indian Ocean nation, although hundreds… Read more »
Media captionBBC Africa investigation: Nigeria’s deadly codeine cough syrup epidemic Four pharmaceutical companies have been raided in Nigeria after a BBC investigation into the role of cough syrup containing codeine in an addiction epidemic. The firms are in Lagos, Ilorin and Kano, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control said. Nigeria this week announced a ban on… Read more »