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Ivorians Are Over the Coronavirus Pandemic Despite an ongoing state of emergency in Cote d’Ivoire in light of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears that many locals have slacked off on upholding mandatory coronavirus-prevention measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing — as daily case numbers are on a decline. Ossene Ouattara, a resident of Abidjan who… Read More

Uganda’s musician turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has threatened to withdraw a poll petition from the country’s Supreme Court citing “bias” and “frustration”. Uganda’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Wine’s additional 120 affidavits claiming the documents were filed late after February 14 deadline. Bobi Wine later addressed his supporters at his party office in Kampala threatening… Read More

A Freezer to Transport the COVID-19 Vaccine to Rural Areas? A South African natural gas company, Renergen, is using its knowledge of cryogenics to develop an ultra-cold biological transport freezer prototype, CryoVacc. The freezer was created to maintain constant internal temperatures of between 8 to -150 C for more than 25 days — and without needing external power sources. Could… Read More

Security forces in Ethiopia on Wednesday seized 23 cartons containing explosives from a vehicle en route to Addis Ababa from the country’s northernmost region of Tigray. The driver was reportedly intercepted at Kombolcha town from the Woldiya customs checkpoint in the Amhara region. Local media FANA reported that the vehicle carrying the explosive was believed to be from the restive… Read More

Niger is heading for the second round of a presidential vote on February 21. Former president of Niger Mahamane Ousmane, who was driven from power by a military coup after three years, is locked in a second-round election runoff with favoured ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum. Opposition parties have now urged candidates to rally behind Ousmane, the runner-up to Mohamed… Read More

Sudan Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia, the foreign ministry said, as tensions between the two countries run high over a border region and Addis Ababa’s controversial Blue Nile dam. “Sudan has recalled its ambassador to Addis Ababa for consultations over Sudanese-Ethiopian relations,” foreign ministry spokesman Mansour Boulad told AFP. He said the envoy would return to his post after… Read More

Ethiopia’s conflict-torn northern Tigray region has been hit by an electricity blackout, the government said Wednesday, blaming the outage on the ousted ruling party in the semi-autonomous zone. Tigray has been the theatre of fighting since early November 2020, when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced military operations against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), accusing them of attacking federal army… Read More

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, newly selected head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), said Tuesday she will push for concrete results in addressing the dual economic and health crises facing the globe. Her immediate goals are to ensure vaccines are produced and distributed worldwide, not just for rich nations, and to resist the push towards protectionism that worsened during the pandemic,… Read More

He is the hero whose story inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’ but On Wednesday the trial began for Paul Rusesabagina, who faces terrorism charges. He is praised for saving some 1,000 ethnic Tutsis during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. But is a staunch critic of longtime President Paul Kagame and faces 12 charges, including terrorism, complicity in murder, and forming or joining… Read More

Last updated: 17 hours ago In Kenya, the Food and Agriculture Organization has teamed up with the company 51 Degrees, which specializes in managing protected areas, and has rejigged software developed for tracking everything from poaching to injured wildlife or illegal logging, to hunt locust swarms.  The locusts first infested the east and Horn of Africa in mid-2019, eventually invading… Read More