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August 10, 2022
Blinken: US 'Concerned' Over Reports Rwanda Backing M23

Speaking in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the U.S. is "very concerned" about recent reports that Rwanda is backing rebel group M23 in the DRC.
August 10, 2022
South Africa COVID Vax Maker Stopping

South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will stop making COVID-19 vaccines from the end of this month due to a lack of orders, a senior executive said, further undermining Africa's already meager capacity to produce doses.
August 10, 2022
Tunisian Court Halts President's Judge Purge

A Tunisian court has halted President Kais Saied's dismissal of dozens of judges, a lawyer said on Wednesday, underscoring the continued independence of courts despite Saied's moves to exert authority over the judiciary.
August 10, 2022
Blinken "Concerned" About DRC-Rwanda Tension

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday Washington was "very concerned" about what he called credible reports that Rwanda has provided support to M23 rebels in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
August 09, 2022
Nigeria Nabs Five for Church Massacre

Nigeria has arrested five suspects in an Islamist militant attack in a Catholic church that killed 40 people in early June, Chief of Defense Staff General Leo Irabor said on Tuesday.
August 09, 2022
Crypto World's Cracks Widen

The recent Nomad hack was the eighth-biggest crypto theft on record. Other thefts from bridges this year include a $615 million heist at Ronin, used in a popular online game, and a $320 million theft at Wormhole, used in so-called decentralized finance applications.
August 09, 2022
Ghana Credit Downgraded

Ghana's finance ministry expressed disappointment on Monday at Standard and Poor's downgrading the West African nation's sovereign credit rating, but said it was determined to quickly emerge from its economic rut.
August 09, 2022
Better Yams Feed Africa

Yams - pounded into paste, ground into flour, boiled or fried – provide sustenance and livelihoods across West Africa. But growing conditions across the "yam belt" from Guinea to Cameroon are deteriorating just as prices of other staples soar.
August 08, 2022
Olivia Newton-John Dies at 73

Singer Olivia Newton-John, who soared to the top of the world's pop music charts in the 1970s and 1980s with such tunes as "I Honestly Love You" and "Physical" and starred in the hit movie musical "Grease," died on Monday at age 73 at her home in southern California.
August 08, 2022
Sierra Leone Passes New Land Laws

Sierra Leone's parliament on Monday passed two laws that lawyers say will help boost the rights of rural landowners and women against land grabs by big mining and agribusiness firms.
August 08, 2022
Racists Get Life for Murdering Black Ahmaud Arbery

A Georgia man and his father convicted of federal hate crimes for the murder of a Black man who was shot dead while jogging were sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
August 08, 2022
Russia, Ukraine Nuclear Plant Conflict Concerns Many

International alarm over the weekend shelling of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex grew on Monday, as Kyiv and Moscow traded blame for the attacks while seeking to address fears that their battle for control of the plant might trigger catastrophe.
August 08, 2022
Blinken Co-hosts Strategic Dialogue with Counterpart in South Africa

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with South African Foreign Minister Naledi PANDOR are having a strategic dialogue. Blinken stressed on the bonds that were forged between the United States and South Africa during its struggle for democracy and racial justice.
August 08, 2022
Benin Bronzes Coming Home

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government.
August 07, 2022
Gbagbo Gets Off

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Saturday said he had offered a presidential pardon to longtime rival Laurent Gbagbo, as part of a reconciliation drive with his predecessors ahead of elections in 2025.
August 07, 2022
ADF-Blamed Eastern DRC Deaths Climb

Suspected Islamist militants killed around 20 people in attacks on two villages in eastern Congo over the weekend, the army and a local human rights group said on Sunday.
August 06, 2022
Tanzania Tightens Belt Against Inflation

Tanzania will reduce liquidity (money supply) over the rest of 2022 in order to tackle a surge of inflation, the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) said on Saturday.
August 06, 2022
"Gays Not OK" - Kampala

The Ugandan government has suspended the operations of a local non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, accusing it of working in the East African country illegally, according to a senior official.
August 05, 2022
Russia Causing Sub-Saharan Hunger - U.S. UN Ambo

The United States' ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Friday said Russia's invasion of Ukraine will cause 40 million people to become food insecure and that sub-Saharan Africa will be hardest hit.
August 05, 2022
Twitter Counters Musk Court Claims

Twitter Inc. on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk's claims in a Delaware court filing that he was hoodwinked into signing the deal to buy the social media company, saying that it was "implausible and contrary to fact."

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