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More than 7,000 Ethiopian soldiers captured by the Tigray Defence Force have been paraded in a rare video that shows them walking towards the Mekele Rehabilitation Centre, in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF), the captive Ethiopian soldiers walked from Abdi Eshir, about 75 km southwest of Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray… Read More

African leaders gathered in Zambia on Friday to attend a memorial service for Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and a champion of African nationalism. The leaders of Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe flew into Lusaka to honour Kaunda, who died of pneumonia last month aged 97. Kaunda is remembered for leading Zambia to independence from British colonial rule in… Read More

Cameroon has launched its new national passport production centre in Yaoundé. The center will produce biometric passports in 48 hours after the online registration of the applicant. The first 80 passports were issued this Friday by the Cameroonian police chief, to the great cheer of some applicants who hitherto waited between 6 months and 2 years to obtain a passport.… Read More

South African truck drivers return home after spending a disturbing night in Eswatini. The drivers fear their trucks might be attacked, hence they did not enter the country. And so they opted to park their vehicles on the South African side of the border. “The drivers, according to them, they say that there is a protest in Eswatini, so they… Read More

Supporters gathered outside the rural home of South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma on Friday in a show of solidarity as he faced a deadline for surrendering to police for contempt of court. In an unprecedented ruling, the Constitutional Court on Tuesday handed Z uma a 15-month jail term for repeatedly refusing to comply with an order to appear before graft… Read More

Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen Hassen on Friday denied reports that the Ethiopian government was “using hunger as a weapon of war” to punish the people of Tigray. “There is absolutely no reason for us to do so”, he told reporters in Addis Ababa. The comment came the day after a bridge crucial to delivering desperately needed food to… Read More

Thousands poured onto the streets of the Tigrayan capital of Mekele Friday. It was a time for a joyous celebration as rebel forces take back the once besieged city. Crowds of jubilant locals waved the red and yellow Tigrayan flag. Supporters danced, clapped in Mekele as they welcomed the returning Tigray Defence Force soldiers. Local residents lined the streets as… Read More

Libyan maritime officials have now acknowledged that a Libyan coast guard vessel had fired warning shots at a migrant boat. The vessel was chasing the boat in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday June 30, in an apparent effort to try to stop the migrants from crossing into Europe. On Thursday, German NGO Sea-Watch released footage filmed from a plane showing… Read More

Police block the entrance to the rural home of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma, Friday, where supporters are expected to picket in a show of solidarity to Zuma. The latter faces a deadline on Sunday to surrender to police for contempt of court. In an unprecedented ruling Tuesday, South Africa’s Constitutional Court handed Zuma a 15-month jail term to… Read More

As a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic weighs down on the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African nation has seen a significant increase in the number of infections and deaths over recent weeks. Its vaccination rollout — launched in March a month after European countries suspended the OxfordAstrazeneca vaccine which it received via the COVAX initiative, has been… Read More