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April 13, 2023
DRC Women Raped During Angola Expulsion

KINSHASA - Women and children have been raped and subjected to other abuses during a mass expulsion of migrant workers from Angola to Democratic Republic of Congo, a doctor, officials and the United Nations said.
April 13, 2023
Ghana OK's Oxford Malaria Vaccine

LONDON - A closely-watched malaria vaccine from Oxford University has secured its first approval, in Ghana, as the African country ramps up efforts to combat the mosquito-borne disease that kills a child every minute.
April 12, 2023
Zambia's Treasury Secretary Warns Against Debt Restructuring Delays

WASHINGTON — Zambia could lose gains achieved so far from macroeconomic reforms if its ongoing debt restructuring is further delayed, Treasury Secretary Felix Nkulukusa said on Wednesday.
April 12, 2023
More Die Off Tunisia Coast

TUNIS - At least 10 people died and more than 30 are still missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia, officials said on Wednesday.
April 12, 2023
UN Chief: Somalis Suffering From Climate Crisis, Looming Famine

MOGADISHU — Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year.
April 12, 2023
UN Slams Sudan 'Fatwa' Call on Official

KHARTOUM - The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about a request for a fatwa seeking the assassination of its head in Sudan, as loyalists of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir stepped up opposition to a draft deal for a new civilian government.
April 12, 2023
S. Africa Minister Urges More Spending to Fix Power Crisis

South Africa's electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the country should not shy away from spending to help fix its power crisis. Ahead of a cabinet decision later this month on his proposals to end the worst power blackouts on record, Ramokgopa tells Reuters that if South African borrowing costs had to rise to fund diesel purchases then that was a necessary trade-off. Olivia Chan reports.
April 12, 2023
Conflict in Eastern Congo Forces Schools to Close

Insecurity in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri is disrupting the education education of some 750,000 young Congolese, the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) estimated in late March. Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya is one of them. Instead of being in school, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs. Olivia Chan of Reuters has more.
April 12, 2023
DRC Plans Closing Forest Concessions

KINSHASA - A ministerial commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recommended terminating 30 forest concessions due to alleged irregularities, it said in a preliminary report published on Tuesday.
April 12, 2023
Conflict Closing DRC Schools

KIHISI, DRC - Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people's camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again.
April 11, 2023
Nigeria APC Wants Obi Challenge Stopped

ABUJA - Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party has asked the Appeals Court to dismiss a petition by third-placed candidate Peter Obi who is challenging the victory of president-elect Bola Tinubu following a disputed election in February, court documents showed on Tuesday.
April 11, 2023
IMF Projects Smaller Global Economy Growth

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised its global output growth forecast in its latest World Economic Outlook press briefing on Tuesday, expecting it to fall from 3.4% in 2022 to 2.8% in 2023, before rising to 3% in 2024. “The world economy is still recovering from the unprecedented upheavals of the last three years, and the recent banking turmoil has increased uncertainties,” said Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s Chief Economist.
April 11, 2023
Germany Boots Chad Ambo in Retaliation

BERLIN - Berlin has ordered Chad's ambassador to Germany to leave the country within 48 hours in response to a similar move by the Central African country last week, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
April 11, 2023
DRC State Mine Gets Major Funding

PARIS - A subsidiary of the Democratic Republic of Congo's state mining company Gecamines said on Tuesday it had secured $75 million in funding to build a new hydro-metallurgical unit to produce materials used in the manufacturing of semiconductors.
April 11, 2023
Refugees in Uganda Struggling to Survive

A 50% shortfall in funds this year has forced the United Nations World Food Program to cut off food supply for hundreds of thousands of refugees in Uganda. Global crises like the war in Ukraine, the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, as well as drought in East Africa, mean there is less food aid for people like Susan Konga in a country that hosts more refugees than any other African country. Olivia Chan of Reuters has more details in this report.
April 11, 2023
Amhara Blast Kills Two

NAIROBI - At least two people were killed by an explosion in the capital of Ethiopia's Amhara region, which has been convulsed by days of protests against the integration of local security forces into the national police and army.
April 11, 2023
Nairobi: 'No Default!'

NAIROBI — Kenya will not default on its debt repayment obligations, the president's chief economic adviser said, as the government delayed payment of civil service salaries due to a cash squeeze caused by massive interest payments.
April 10, 2023
Yellen to Push for Debt Relief for Zambia, Ghana

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push this week for urgent resolution of requests by Zambia and Ghana for restructuring of their sovereign debts and moves to conclude a debt treatment for Sri Lanka, Treasury said on Monday.
April 10, 2023
Cameroon Wants to Rejoin AGOA

WASHINGTON - Cameroon is working to boost export revenues to fend off a potential debt crisis and has relaunched talks with the U.S. to rejoin AGOA, Washington's flagship trade initiative with Africa, its economy minister said on Monday.
April 10, 2023
Two Aid Workers Killed in Amhara

NAIROBI - Two Catholic Relief Services (CRS) workers were shot and killed on Sunday in Ethiopia's Amhara region, the charity said, amid violent anti-government protests triggered by a federal government decision to disband regional special forces units.

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