Tag: Africaglobalvillage

A judge in Kenya has ruled that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, can be sued in the East African country. Meta tried to have the case dropped, arguing that Kenyan courts do not have jurisdiction over their operations, but the labour court judge dismissed that in a ruling on Monday. A former Facebook moderator in Kenya, Daniel Motaung, is suing the… Read More

Standing near the dried river bed that marks Ghana’s northern border, Alima can see her hamlet, lying in Burkina Faso less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) away. Even though her home is just a short walk away, she says she will never go back there to live. One night last year, jihadist gunmen arrived in the settlement and killed two watchmen. Alima… Read More

Here in Kirehe a local electrician has harnessed hydroelectric power to create a new future for his neighbours. These dams circumvent rivers into waterways that feed a dam which is fed through a pipeline to a small plant that creates power. It’s two and a half kilometres from the water basin to the Nyagakoma hydropower plant set up by Israel… Read More

Mali’s ruling junta said Sunday that it was expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the UN mission there, giving him 48 hours to leave the country. The decision comes after a Malian rights activist last month denounced the security situation in the country in a speech to a UN gathering, and accused the regime’s new Russian… Read More

A number of schoolchildren were injured Thursday when a railing broke loose at a stadium in a southern Sierra Leone town where the president and his wife were distributing free sanitary towels, authorities said. In videos shared on social networks, a crowd rushes out of the stadium in the town of Bo, the second largest in this small, poor West… Read More

Regional heads of state have called for an immediate ceasefire by all parties in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tensions there have grown amid talk of war as Congo and neighbouring Rwanda trade allegations of backing armed rebels. The ceasefire call was issued in a communique at the end of the East African Community (EAC) summit in… Read More

As the rest of the world marks 2023 world cancer day celebration, in Abuja, Nigeria a group held an annual 5km walk awareness campaign. Since 2015, Pink Blue has been hosting this project an initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control. With this year’s theme “closing the care gap”, the group, appeals for more medical personnel in the… Read More

International supermodel Naomi Campbell was among the models on the catwalk at Arise Fashion Week in Nigeria.  She was helping to showcase the talent and latest creations from African designers. The high-profile event, which ran from 2-4 February in Lagos, kicked off the continent’s 2023 fashion season. Among the creations being shown at the high profile event was clothing from… Read More

Election officials in Nigeria on Saturday staged mock biometric accreditation for voters ahead of this month’s presidential and parliamentary elections. The country goes to the polls on 25 February to elect a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. State governors and lawmakers will be elected two weeks later. To ensure fairness and transparency of the electoral process, the Independent National Electoral… Read More

The Ethiopian government said on Saturday it was sending about $90 million to the Tigrayan capital to help restart banking services in the country. Prime Minister Abiy’s national security advisor, Redwan Hussein, announced on Twitter that the National Bank had started to send the money to the capital Mekele for distribution from Monday Ethiopian Airlines was also planning to increase… Read More