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The body of Agitu Gudeta on Tuesday arrived back in Ethiopia from Italy, where she was killed on December 30, 2020 on her farm. The Ethiopian flag-draped casket carrying her body was received at the Bole International Airport by Addis Ababa city officials and Agitu’s family. Agitu, 42, was killed in late December on her farm in northern Italy where… Read More

The unprecedented spike in covid-19 cases in South Africa is due to the virus variants. Scientists in the country say the transmissible nature of the variants is growing at an alarming rate, as never seen before. Bioinformatician Houriiyah Tegally, a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, (KRISP) team that discovered the South African coronavirus variants said ‘’it… Read More

It would likely be a sombre celebration in Tunisia on Thursday as the North African nation marks a decade since the ouster of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. The movement that led protest leading to the exit of the Tunisian president in 2011, has given way to hopelessness among the one third of young people with jobs. Moslem Kasdallah, got… Read More

Angola Gets Seemingly Great Review from the IMF The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday completed the fourth review of Angola’s economic program supported by an extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and have decided to approve an immediate disbursement of about (US) $487.5 million to Angola — bringing total disbursements under the arrangement… Read More

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni reacted with defiance to international criticism of a government crackdown on the opposition and Facebook closing down the ruling party’s account, two days before presidential and parliamentary polls. He said Uganda’s sovereignty should be respected. “This is unfortunate but it is unavoidable. There is not way anybody can come and play around with our country, to… Read More

Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera decreed three days of national mourning after two members of his cabinet succumbed to Covid-19 on Tuesday. Local government minister Lingson Belekenyama and the minister for transport Muhammad Sidik Mia died in the capital Lilongwe. The two are the highest ranking public officials so far to succumb to the virus in Malawi. “We have entered the… Read More

Fearing bloodshed, some Ugandans are leaving the capital Kampala to vote in the home regions in the tense presidential and parliamentary elections on January 14. “According to the past elections we’ve always had chaos within Kampala, around Kampala. And I think this time it will be a lot of pressure that we have right now. There might be a lot… Read More

The African Development Bank will mobilize $6.5 Billion to support efforts by countries in the Sahel. Launched in 2007 by the African African Union, the Great Green Wall is a concerted attempt to roll back the Sahara desert. It seeks to help communities in the Sahel and Sahara regions to mitigate and adapt to climate change but also to improve… Read More

Uganda will hold its general election on Thursday. The campaigns which have been characterized by episodes of deadly violence officially wrapped up on Tuesday. Ten candidates are running for the presidency while over a thousand are competing for the over 400 seats in parliament. 18 million people are eligible to vote. The frontrunners for president are incumbent Yoweri Museveni, the… Read More

Ahead of Uganda’s heated election on Thursday, the government’s ordered internet service providers to block all social media platforms and messaging apps until further notice, according to a letter from the telecommunications regulator seen by AFP said. In the letter, the director of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Irene Sewankambo, ordered operators to “immediately suspend all access” to these services,… Read More