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The Ebola outbreak in Uganda is coming under control announced Africa’s top public health body on Thursday. According to Africa CDC, it had been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus had been reported in the country. The Centre’s acting director, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, told a briefing that if no new cases were reported in Uganda by… Read More

An entire neighbourhood buzzing in preparation for a wedding. In a courtyard in Yaoundé, Cameroon, a family has started a special ceremony. It is henna time for the bride-to-be and young women. They’ll stand out with elaborate or simple henna designs on their skin. “In Cameroon, henna is called ‘sifa’. in It is done before the feast of Ramadan and… Read More

At least 16 people died and 21 others were injured after the bus they were travelling on crashed at night in northern Uganda on Friday, local media have reported. The police said they believe a stationary trailer that the bus crashed into may have been wrongly parked at the Adebe trading centre in North Kyoga region, the East African newspaper… Read More

An Eritrean asylum seeker waits anxiously in London to know if she is going to be deported to Rwanda. The story of 23 year old Hayat (false name, Ed.) echoes that of many others who have arrived in Britain looking for a better life. “When I think about Rwanda, I cannot sleep at night because I have a lot of problems… Read More

Kenya hosted Thursday (Jan. 05), the president of World Athletics. The country’s Sports Minister held a press conference in Nairobi with Sebastian Coe. A raft of Kenyan runners were suspended last year after testing positive for banned drugs and entered the Athletics Integrity Unit global list of ineligible athletes. Kenya still escaped a ban contrary to Russia; a situation Sebastian… Read More

For the first time since 2009, global growth will be weak, not going beyond 2%, according to the IMF figures. Growth in Africa will therefore be subject to external shocks and be plunged into uncertainty.  To cope with the unpredictability of the international market and possible crises, economists urged African states to reduce their reliance on the outside by diversifying… Read More

The Spanish police have dismantled in Malaga a criminal group dedicated to labor exploitation and fraudulent regulation of undocumented immigrants, mainly Moroccans, who were charged up to 3,000 euros for false contracts. In the operation 43 people of various nationalities were arrested, including the leaders of the group. As shown in the video released by the national police, the agents… Read More

The Senegalese authorities on Thursday banned a demonstration planned for Friday in Dakar by the opposition, to denounce irregularities in the management of an anti-covid fund identified in a report by the Court of Auditors, an official source said. A decree by the prefect of Dakar states that “the place chosen (for the demonstration) is the subject of major works”… Read More

Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said that the north African country was the target of calculated media attacks and legal harassment aimed at undermining ties with the European Union. The comments were made Thursday during a visit to Morocco from the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell. Last year Belgian authorities implicated Morocco and Qatar in a major corruption scandal involving… Read More

In Sudan, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, on Thursday, to demand the country’s military rulers leave power. The demonstrators also rejected a deal struck weeks ago for the gradual transfer of power to civilian leaders. A military coup in October 2021 abruptly ended a previous democratic transition agreement with protest leaders. “This march is… Read More