Oromia protests broke out after fatal shooting of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, regional spokesman says. At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia region in protests following the fatal shooting of a popular singer, a regional spokesman said. Musician Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was shot dead on Monday night in what police said was a targeted killing. Protests […]

ADDIS ABABA (REUTERS) – At least 10 people died and more than 80 were wounded when the killing of a popular singer triggered blasts and protests in Ethiopia’s capital and the surrounding Oromiya region on Tuesday (June 30), police and a doctor said. The unrest spotlights growing divisions in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Oromo powerbase […]

No immediate confirmation from al-Qaeda as French minister says Abdelmalek Droukdel killed in northern Mali operation. France said on Friday that its military has killed al-Qaeda’s North Africa chief Abdelmalek Droukdel, a key fighter who its forces had been hunting for more than seven years, during an operation in Mali. “On June 3, French army […]

Media watchdog calls Samuel Wazizi’s death ‘the worst crime against a journalist in the past 10 years in Cameroon’. Cameroonian journalist Samuel Wazizi, who was arrested in August for criticising the government’s handling of a separatist revolt, has died in detention, rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said.   Wazizi worked for CMTV, a […]

Akufo-Addo from New Patriotic Party will contest against former President John Mahama for the third consecutive time. Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has picked incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo as its presidential candidate in this year’s election, setting up a third consecutive head-to-head battle against former President John Dramani Mahama. Akufo-Addo, 76, unseated Mahama in 2016 […]

Ethiopia remains undeterred from filling contentious reservoir while talks with Sudan and Egypt remain deadlocked. Ethiopia has reiterated it will start filling the reservoir of a controversial dam on the Nile – that has been at the centre of a decade-long dispute in East Africa – even without an agreement from Egypt and Sudan. The […]

Petition urging removal of names of British colonial figures from streets and landmarks to be taken to Parliament. A campaign to rename street names in Uganda’s capital has gained traction as the Black Lives Matter protests and decolonisation movement that erupted after the US police killing of George Floyd sweep the globe. Launched on June […]

NGO says its workers were distributing food when unidentified gunmen drove in and forced the victims to follow them. Unidentified gunmen have abducted 10 humanitarian aid workers as they were distributing food in a village in southwestern Niger, their NGO said in a statement. Kadidiatou Harouna, of the Action and Impact Progress (APIS), said on […]

Newest outbreak of disease, the 11th recorded in DRC’s history, comes as epidemic in country’s east is still ongoing. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country’s northwest, just weeks before they hoped to declare the end of another Ebola epidemic in the country’s east. […]

JOHANNESBURG (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS) – South Africa will begin a coronavirus vaccine trial on Wednesday, the first such test on the continent, with its 2,000 volunteers planned to include some living with HIV. The trial will begin at three sites in the country’s most populated province, Gauteng, and include 50 volunteers who have HIV, said study […]