•An aerial view of black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles between the forces of two rival Army Generals Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum yesterday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists. Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid S...
•Ebola virus disease A nurse has died from Ebola in the Ugandan capital Kampala, the health ministry said today. “An outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease has been confirmed in Kampala, Uganda following confirmation from three national reference laboratories,” the ministry’s permanent secretary Diana Atwine told reporters. The victim was descr...
•Rwandan police officers monitor as men believed to be Romanian military contractors line up to undergo a security inspection before crossing the border into Rwanda at the La Corniche Border Post in Gisenyi today Belgium today warned its citizens against travelling to DR Congo, as Brussels Airlines scrapped a flight to Kinshasa after violent ...
•Flags of Economic Community of West African States Commission (ECOWAS) countries West African regional bloc ECOWAS today officially recognised the exit of three of its former members Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic which became effective today, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, upon the expiration of a one-year notice period. However, in “t...
•People gather to celebrate the withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Niamey yesterday Thousands of people rallied yesterday in Niger and Burkina Faso in support of the withdrawal of their countries from the Economic Community of West African States, which is due to take [&he...
•(L-R ): The leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, Mali’s military leader Colonel Assimi Goita and Niger’s General Abdourahmane Tchiani. The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) takes effect on Wednesday after a year of political tensions, fracturing the region and leaving the...
Kenya will now permit citizens of nearly all African countries to visit without requiring prior authorisation. According to a BBC report, Kenya will now permit citizens of nearly all African countries to visit without requiring prior authorization, as per a new directive from the cabinet. A cabinet statement clarified that the Electronic Trave...
•Scene of the accident A bus overturned in northern Ethiopia today killing 25 people, police said. The accident in the Dawunt district of Amhara region also left 14 people seriously injured and receiving treatment at hospitals in Delanta and Dessie, local authorities said. Road accidents are common in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous na...
•Tinubu The Nigerian community in Cote d’Ivoire has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently address the plight of Nigerians languishing in harsh conditions in Ivorian prisons. The appeal highlights the alarming number of detainees, many of whom are reportedly innocent, detained due to administrative issues or extortion by opposition ...
•President Paul Kagame of Rwanda Rwanda said today it had made its first oil discovery, with confirmation of 13 reservoirs in Lake Kivu, which makes up part of its border with DR Congo. “The good news is that we have oil,” Francis Kamanzi, CEO of the Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board, told a parliamentary […]
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