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The National Museums of Kenya has launched an app to help the country’s wildlife authorities track and log rare and common mammals and record whether the species and their habitat are thriving. At the Soysambu Conservancy in Nakuru, southern Kenya, tourists come to experience the rich biodiversity. When John Perret, the owner of a camel safari, takes out his phone,… Read More

Miners operating in Zimbabwe will have to pay some of their royalties in refined metal rather than cash. The country’s president announced the move in a newspaper on Sunday (Oct 9), as the country struggles to benefit from demand for its resources. “Starting this October, government now requires that part of these royalties come as actual refined mining products,” Mnangagwa… Read More

Burkina Faso’s coup leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, will convene a so-called “national assembly” on October 14 and 15 to appoint a transition charter and most likely a new “transitional president”. The announcement came Saturday after a decree was read on state television. The assembly talks are set to take place in Ouagadougou, it is on that occasion that the “Transitional Charter”… Read More

Chad’s national forum, announced Saturday, that Mahamat Idriss Itno, who took over in April last year after his father demise would remain in power during the 2-year transition to elections. At a ceremony boycotted by opposition members, leading armed rebel groups and civil society organisations, the “Transitional Military Council which had ruled the country for the past 18 months”was formally… Read More

The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant boats off Greece that left at least 22 people dead this week has once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route to Europe. The Greek shipwrecks came just days after Italy commemorated the ninth anniversary of one of the deadliest Mediterranean shipwrecks in recent memory, the Oct. 3, 2013 capsizing… Read More

In the fight against terrorism in general and the Al-Shabab extremist group in particular, the Somali government has decided to enforce a new measure. On Saturday (Oct.7), the deputy minister of information announced the government banned what it calls “the dissemination of extremism ideology messages both from official media houses and on social media”. “I want to inform the Somali… Read More

Uganda’s sugar exports have increased after a huge drop in July. According to the country’s central bank, Uganda’s sugar exports for the month of July suffered a 58% decline due to scarcity of cane.  However,  this shipment of sugar is only a fraction of the volumes going out to south Sudan, Kenya and Rwanda.  According to the Bank of Uganda,… Read More

In front of the Ouagadougou municipal stadium, in Burkina Faso, food donors come one after the other.  They are gathering to prepare supplies for their compatriots trapped in localities controlled by jihadists. A sign calling for donations for residents from the northern city of Djibo who are now facing famine.  The capital of the Soum Province has been losing its… Read More

One of the largest cinemas in West Africa has opened. Pathé, the second oldest cinema company still operating in the world, set up shop in the Senegalese capital. For movie lovers living in Dakar, a dozen movie theatres are now available.  A major achievement for the city in which cinemas had virtually all closed in the 2000s, due to the disengagement… Read More

Lesotho’s villagers from the rural area of Thaba Bosiu (western Lesotho) hope the country will usher into a news era following Friday’s (Oct. 7) general elections. The southern African kingdom has been governed for the past decade by coalitions, with no PM serving out a full five-year term. For the 1.5 million people registered to vote, insecurity and better life… Read More