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A new round of talks began on Monday between Ethiopia’s government and Tigray regional representatives to work out military and other details of last week’s signing of a “permanent” cessation of hostilities in a two-year conflict thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. The meetings in Kenya involved the military commanders of both sides along with the lead… Read More

The Kenya Airways (KA) pilots’ union, which has been on strike since Saturday, has been summoned to appear before a court in Nairobi on Monday for staging a strike despite a court order banning it. Eleven members of the Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa) are summoned on Tuesday for “disobeying” a court order “issued on 31 October”, the court said… Read More

Kenyan marathon runner Evans Chebet took the first prize at the New York Marathon on Sunday. Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata took second place with Dutch runner Abdi Nageeye completing the top three. By winning the mythical event in New York, Chebet validated the first grand slam in history for a nation on the world circuit: Kenyans have won all six events… Read More

Ugandan youth activist Nyombi Morris arrived in Egypt for the UN’s COP27 climate summit with high hopes of being part of the campaign for environmental justice. But it didn’t take long for Egypt’s stiff security measures to shatter his dreams, as rights groups warn the North African country has stifled protests with “dozens” of arrests. “I was so happy when… Read More

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was received by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday during a state visit to China. President Hassan is the first African head of state China has received after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). During the meeting both countries agreed to expand the scale of bilateral trade as… Read More

The World Bank said in a statement on Friday that South Africa, a significant emitter of greenhouse gases and a country struggling with its energy transition, had been awarded $497 million to convert one of its old coal-fired power plants. The continent’s leading industrial power, whose delegation will accompany President Cyril Ramaphosa to COP27, which opens Sunday in Egypt, still… Read More

The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, called on Thursday evening “the youth” of his country to “organize themselves into groups of vigilance” in the face of the M23 rebellion which, he reaffirmed, benefits from “the support of Rwanda”. Rwanda has “expansionist ambitions, with the main interest of appropriating our minerals”, he accused, in a Message… Read More

Two generations of Cameroonians have been born under the presidency of Paul Biya who, on Sunday 6 November, was marking 40 years of undivided rule. Known as the “Sphinx”, Biya is now 89 years-old and in poor health. Some people think it may be a good time for a change but fear the instability that may follow. Shopkeeper, Muriel Ewane,… Read More

Hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets of the capital Accra on Saturday 5 November calling for the resignation of President Nana Akufo-Addo following record inflation and the government’s handling of the economic crisis After once promising a “Ghana without aid,” last week President Akufo-Addo urged Ghanaians to support his decision to seek an IMF loan. The economic crisis is… Read More

A passenger plane with 43 people on board crashed into Tanzania’s Lake Victoria on Sunday as it approached the northwestern town of Bukoba. The accident is being blamed on bad weather. 43 people, including 39 passengers, the two pilots and two crew members, were on the flight from the economic capital Dar es Salaam to Bukoba, a town on the… Read More