Category: Africa News

There was a brief stampede in Kenya’s capital Friday after thousands of people surged for food aid. Witnesses said the incident in the impoverished Kibera … source

Six months of debt relief has been granted to 25 countries considered the poorest in the world by the International Monetary Fund.* The institution will then … source

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital on Monday Kinshasa closed off its upmarket business district known as ‘Gombe’ for two weeks. The country also … source

Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh is reportedly seeking support of his political party to return home. Bloomberg reports that the Alliance for Patriotic … source

While the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, war-shattered Libya on Saturday marked one year of its latest bloody conflict that is plunging it ever … source

Twenty people were killed on Wednesday when a lightning strike damaged a high-voltage power line in a suburb of the Congolese capital Brazzaville, the local … source

Africa’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention has activated an ‘Emergency Operations Centre’ to manage the deadly Coronavirus from reaching the … source

Bobi Wine, a Ugandan musician turned politician, has joined the likes of DRC’s Fally Ipupa and Senegal’s Y’en a Marre in resorting to song to help stem the … source

A mass sensitization over the coronavirus is underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo as fears of the virus grow. This comes as the deadly Ebola viral … source

At the Blaise Diagne airport in Dakar Senegal, medical processes are in place to control passengers coming in and going out of the West African nation. A move … source