Tag: Africa news
Minister resigns as 47 kids die in bus-train collision
Forty-seven nursery school children were killed on Saturday when a train ploughed into their bus in the central Egyptian province…
Sierra Leone decides between Bio and Koroma
FREETOWN (AFP) – Sierra Leone readied Friday for a high-stakes election in which incumbent Ernest Koroma is seeking a second…
Ouattara sacks cabinet
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday dissolved the government formed in March and charged with reviving the country after…
Cap-In-Hand Burundi begs for $1billion
Burundi’s vice president on Monday asked international donors gathered in Geneva for over $1.0 billion to help finance his country’s…
African women spend billions of hours in search of water
An average of 2.6 billion hours is lost yearly in sub- Sahara Africa by women in search of water, Ms…
Dos Santos declared winner of Angola polls
Angola’s government mouthpiece Jornal de Angola on Sunday declared incumbent Jose Eduardo dos Santos the president-elect, two days after elections…
2 major blows hit Somalia’s Al-Shebab
Somalia’s Islamic insurgents and affiliates of Al-Qaeda suffered two major setbacks today. In Kenya, their backer, Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo…
Women urge sex boycott in support of Togo protests
Women from the Let’s Save Togo coalition called Sunday on all females in the country to refrain from sex for…
Ethiopia gives burial date for Meles Zenawi
Ethiopia will hold the funeral of late prime minister Meles Zenawi on September 2, officials said Thursday, without giving further…
Third term: Senegal’s opposition unite against Wade
Senegal’s opposition joined forces Sunday in a mass rally to block 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade from landing a third term…
Third term Crisis and Senegal’s Wade
By Bayo Onanuga At a time when the world is beset by a serious economic crisis and nations crave younger…
Jonathan: I did not run for AU Chair
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan said he did not contest for election as the Chairman of African Union, contrary to…