MWEA, KENYA (REUTERS) – Rows of spinach sprout in the sports field where the students of Roka Preparatory school once played football, and clucking chickens fluff their feathers in sawdust-covered classrooms where children once sweated over their exams. No students have thundered down these eerily quiet corridors since March, when Kenya abruptly closed its schools […]
At least three, including a child, killed and seven others wounded in the attack, government spokesman says. Three people were killed and seven were injured in a suicide attack inside a Mogadishu restaurant. Information ministry spokesman Ismail Mukhtar Omar said the attacker walked into the Blue Sky restaurant near Mogadishu National Theatre on Wednesday before […]
Officials holding polls warn that any federal government intervention would amount to a ‘declaration of war’. People have begun voting in a local election in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, defying the federal government and increasing political tensions in Africa’s second-most populous country. Tigray officials holding polls on Wednesday for the 190-seat regional parliament have warned that any […]
Sandbag walls set and water being pumped out of ruins of Al-Bajrawiya – site of Meroe pyramids, a World Heritage Site. Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site in Sudan after rivers in the country reached some of the highest ever recorded levels, archaeologists said. Teams have set up sandbag walls […]
The 15-nation regional bloc ECOWAS has been pressuring new military leaders to hand over power to civilian rule. The West African regional bloc ECOWAS called on Mali’s new military government that seized power last month to appoint a civilian to head a transition government by September 15. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) slapped […]
Officials say overthrown leader – detained by military rulers who unseated him – is visiting UAE for medical treatment. Mali’s overthrown President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has left the country seeking medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates, officials have said, as talks over a transition to civilian rule after last month’s military coup got off […]
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North agrees on ‘necessity’ of reaching political solution with government. Sudan’s power-sharing government and a major rebel group active in the country’s southern borderlands have agreed to hold new peace talks hosted by South Sudan, days after Khartoum signed a peace deal with other groups. On Friday, the government agreed to the […]
State media says Sudan Revolutionary Front alliance from Darfur and southern states inks agreement with government. Sudan’s main rebel alliance has agreed on a peace deal with the government aimed at ending 17 years of conflict, official news agency SUNA said on Sunday. The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance of rebel groups from the […]
Several teachers also kidnapped by unknown gunmen following the attack on a school in North Kivu. At least two students and a teacher have been killed and several other teachers kidnapped after a primary school holding exams was attacked by unidentified gunmen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). DRC President Felix Tshisekedi said […]
ADDIS ABABA (REUTERS) – The cause of death of 25 dolphins that washed up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill remains unclear after two of the animals showed no trace of oil in their bodies, a preliminary autopsy report showed on Thursday (Aug 27). “The preliminary results show that the animals did […]