The Al-Shabaab militant group continues to pose a serious threat to peace and security in Somalia, said Anita Kiki Gbeho, officer-in-charge of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia. The year 2022 was the deadliest for [Read More]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned over multiple disease outbreaks that are ongoing in the Horn of Africa region as countries in the region face serious food insecurity. The WHO, in its Horn of [Read More]
Zimbabwe will beef up security at its ports of entry to ensure that drugs are not smuggled into the country and thus affect the livelihoods of youths, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said this week. Mnangagwa said [Read More]
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said its urgent support helped to avert COVID-19 vaccines expiry in Africa. The Africa CDC, in a statement issued Thursday, said following the emergence of [Read More]
Tropical Cyclone Freddy slamming into Madagascar’s eastern coast on Wednesday claimed the lives of at least four people and displaced 11,000 others from their homes, a UN spokesman said. Government preliminary estimates showed that although [Read More]
China Southern Airlines will resume its normal schedule of direct flights from China to Azerbaijan, the company’s local branch said on Wednesday. The flights between Guangzhou and Baku will resume from March, after almost a [Read More]
Namibian Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises Iipumbu Shiimi on Wednesday proposed an 84.6 billion Namibian dollars (about 5.7 billion U.S. dollars) budget for the financial year 2023/2024. Speaking at parliament while tabling the national [Read More]
Kenya’s earnings from tourism rose to 2.13 billion U.S. dollars in 2022 compared to 1.16 billion dollars in 2021, according to data released Wednesday by the state-owned Tourism Research Institute (TRI). The TRI said that [Read More]
The Zambian government on Wednesday said it has put in place measures to avert the negative effects of tropical cyclone Freddy which may cause an increase in rains and flooding. Collins Nzovu, the minister of [Read More]
Uzbekistan and Egypt have signed contracts and agreements worth 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in various fields, the Uzbek presidential press service said Wednesday. The deals, covering energy, textile and agricultural sectors, were signed during the [Read More]
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