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Rwanda has expressed displeasure with the United Kingdom after London banned travelers from the east African country, citing the need to stop the spread of mutant strains of Covid-19. Last Thursday, the UK’s transport minister announced that his country had added Rwanda, Burundi, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to its coronavirus travel ban list with effect from Friday, January… Read More

In the far southwest of Morocco, the city of Dakhla has become a top destination for wind sports. Dakhla is used to seeing tourists arrive from America and Europe but since the coronavirus pandemic, locals are taking advantage of the clear waters and choppy waves “I decided to come to Dakhla especially because of lockdown because we could not go… Read More

They have survived gun battles, attempted abductions, attacks by angry militiamen and days-long treks to safety with nothing to eat but moringa leaves. Yet Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia fear their suffering may not be over, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed strains to end a brutal conflict in the northern region of Tigray that has rendered them uniquely vulnerable. Nearly 100,000… Read More

Delegates will have until Friday to choose a new Prime Minister and Presidential Council. It will be a decisive week for those who wish for long lasting peace in Libya. Participants in the UN-sponsored inter-Libyan dialogue are meeting on Monday in order to choose a new Prime Minister and Presidential Council. A move that would help lead the transition in… Read More

Two Kenyan inventors David Gathu and Moses Kinyua have created a bio-robotic prosthetic arm. This is not a new invention but there is something interesting about this. The arm is operated by brain signals. We also hear the story of Cameroonian researcher and inventor of an atypical insecticide developed from plants to fight Malaria. And, later on the show, a… Read More

South Sudan government has announced it will switch to a new time zone of February 1. The labor undersecretary Mary Hillary Wani Pitia said in a written announcement that the eastern African country will shift back one hour from the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) +3 to UTC+2, adding that the new time zone is based on South Sudan’s location on… Read More

Al Shabaab militants kill 5, including retired army general in hotel blast. As the smoke rises from the site of the blast, Mogadishu was once more rocked by fighters of the Al Qaeda linked Islamist group al Shabaab. On Sunday afternoon, as armed militants neared a checkpoint on the road leading to the international airport, an al Shabaab militant detonated… Read More

Cameroon Officially Set to Play in the CHAN Semi-Finals Cameroonian fans are ecstatic as their beloved country has just made it into the semi-finals of the African Nations championship after the Lions scored two goals against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to seal their spot. Roland, A Cameroonian fan, believes wholeheartedly in his national team, “We organised and we… Read More

Private Schools Reopen As Many Remain Closed Indefinitely After an almost ten-month hiatus from classes, the initial joy of going back to school for many students in Ghana has since turned into a nightmare as the far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has put over 222 private schools out of business as economic challenges led many proprietors to convert their… Read More

Residents of Cape Town are Over the Lockdown Scores of Cape Town Residents defied the nation’s coronavirus-prevention beach ban – flocking to a number of the city’s sandy locales on Saturday in protest of both the ban and the rest of the most recent lockdown restrictions in the country. Sanitary measures put in place by the South African government in… Read More