Saturday, October 3, 2026

Africa

April 24, 2024

Tanzania shuts down five hydro stations to reduce excess power on national grid

This is the first time the country will be shutting its hydroelectric stations over excess production.

Tanzania national grid
April 24, 2024

Thirty-eight people, 5,000 livestock killed as heavy rains sweep across Kenya

The humanitarian agency added that crops on more than 27,716 acres (about 112 square kilometres) have been destroyed and about 5,000 livestock killed.

FLOODED KENYA
April 24, 2024

‘Numerous’ terrorists killed in Damasak, Mobbar airstrikes, MNJTF says

The troops said the airstrikes led “to the reduction in terrorism and other forms of cross-border crimes perpetrated by criminals crisis-crossing the borders to evade justice.”

KILLED BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS
April 24, 2024

Nigeria, other African nations’ debt servicing rise from $17 billion to $74 billion

The African Development Bank said the continent’s $824 billion debt burden and opaque resource-backed loans hindered its potential.

ADESINA IN WASHINGTON D.C.
April 23, 2024

UK sending refugees to Rwanda cruel, costly: International Rescue Committee

Sending refugees to Rwanda, or anywhere else, will never be an effective solution, warns the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria
April 23, 2024

Dangerous UK-Rwanda asylum law erodes refugees’ protection: UN

If implemented, it would pave the way for asylum seekers, including families with children, to be summarily sent to Rwanda, with no prospect of return to the UK.

REFUGEES IN UK; SUNAK
April 23, 2024

Armed clashes in northern Ethiopia leave 50,000 homeless

The displaced were seeking refuge in the towns of Kobo and Sekota in the Amhara region.

Map of Ethiopia
April 23, 2024
April 22, 2024

Tinubu urges collective action to address root causes of terrorism in Africa 

Mr Tinubu said Africa must prudently handle the root causes of terrorism through good governance, rule of law, justice, and inclusiveness.

President Bola Tinubu
April 22, 2024

Portable Ultrasound Launch: Four million newborns die yearly in Nigeria, other nations, says Gates Foundation

“Every year, nearly 300,000 women and over four million newborns perish due to pregnancy-related complications,” the Gates Foundation said.

PORTABLE ULTRASOUND