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Rwanda has become one of the few African countries to achieve the goal of vaccinating over 60 percent of its population against Covid-19. By the end of 2021, the East african nation had already administered vaccine doses to more than 40% of its 12 million citizens. A number that reached the World Health organization’s target for this period. The country’s… Read More

Less than a week days after a major agreement was sealed between South Sudan’s rival leaders, fighting erupted in the North of the country. Military officials of President Salva Kiir and the Vice President Riek Machar made the announced while calling for a ceasefire in the capital, Juba on Friday. According to both sides, the clashes are taking place around… Read More

Kenya’s finance ministry unveiled on Thursday the Government’s budget for the 2022/23 fiscal year aimed at reviving the economy. The budget still awaits Parliament’s approval. Ukur Yatani presented Thursday a $28 billion budget aimed at reviving an economy undermined by the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2022-2023 budget, announced four months before… Read More

One day after the South African police announced a man had been killed by anti-immigrant protesters, authorities call for calm. “We don’t want and we can’t support any South African who takes the law into their own hands“, David Makhura, the Premier of the Gauteng province -where the killing occurred- said Accompanied by a Home Affairs’ team, the 54-year-old reiterated… Read More

Nigerian and European Union forces conduct joint anti-piracy drills at the Western Naval Command in Lagos, to demonstrate their capabilities in the Gulf of Guinea. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea — home to Sub-Saharan Africa’s two main oil producers, Nigeria and Angola — has seriously disrupted international shipping routes and cost the global economy billions of dollars. The idea… Read More

Along a riverbank scarred by logging, Joseph Mwandenge Mangi points out a solitary mangrove tree, a species once abundant in the forest where the mighty Sabaki River meets the sea. “This is the last one. There are no more left,” said the 42-year-old Kenyan, who grew up on the estuary and possesses a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of its flora and… Read More

The African Development Bank has secured investment funding to finance infrastructure projects, development of resilient agricultural systems and strengthening of the continent’s manufacturing capacity in the health sector. Having drawn lessons from the devastating COVID 19 pandemic, the bank is determined to nurture the capacity of African economies to survive and thrive through similar crises that may strike in the… Read More

The Ivorian blind football team is hard at work on the lawn of Abidjan’s University. The team dreams of participating in the Paralympic Olympics to be held in Paris in 2024. Cecifoot is a discipline reserved for the visually impaired. “Being blind, the beginning was difficult. But as time went on I realised that I still loved the sport I… Read More

A Sudanese court acquitted on Thursday close allies of former leader Omar al-Bashir. The 13 former officials were accused of plotting against the democratic transition that begun after Bashir’s fall in 2019. Thirteen officials, including former head of diplomacy Ibrahim Ghandour and former members of the deposed autocrat’s National Congress Party (NCP), were “acquitted and the court ordered their immediate… Read More

After a week of relative calm, clashes between Kinshasa’s armed forces and the M23 movement in Estern DRC resumed on Wednesday. Since March, 28, many civilians have fled their villages to seek safety. Ndamugabo ran from his village in north Kivu province and took refuge in a school in Rutshuru. He is now waiting for assistance. “It was Monday morning… Read More