The Sudanese military claims a coalition government is in the works, but Sudanese citizens continued protests over the weekend to keep up the pressure for a democratic future. Large crowds of people took to the ...
Libya is on the verge of becoming the next proxy war, as its coalition government struggles to retain control over the country. Last Wednesday, the U.N.-recognized Coalition Government of Libya, declared that its forces wrestled ...
The Saharan Arab Democratic Republic and Morocco have battled for sovereignty over Western Sahara since the 1970s. At a Tuesday meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, support for Morocco’s Western ...
“We have met with representatives of all categories of the Sudanese people and we want to make sure that all rumors that could prevent Sudan from realizing stability, are totally removed.” Sudan’s transitional military council ...
“The breaking up of the sit-in was one of the main points on the agenda that was discussed. Unless he got the green light from his regional allies he would not have been able to ...
Ethiopia is offering to mediate discussions between the Sudanese military and opposition leaders after over 100 protestors were killed in a military crackdown. The Sudanese coalition for the opposition said on Friday that they would ...
Russia’s long-term goal is to become a political, economic and military mediator that can stand behind Africa’s global interests and count on the continent’s support in return. (By János Besenyő, The Conversation) Russia has never ...
After killing 35 and injuring hundreds of protesters, the notorious paramilitary force, RSF, has overrun the capital city, terrorizing the citizens seen on the streets. (Peoples Dispatch) The Transitional Military Council (TMC), through which the ...
The United Kingdom and Egypt strengthen economic ties. Upon arriving in Cairo on Monday, British minister of trade, Liam Fox, said his country would become the largest investor of the Group of Seven (G7) in ...
“Each month seems to bring fresh revelations of just how far WWF is prepared to go to promote fortress conservation. Shoot on sight policies, sterilization programs for villagers living near national parks – these are ...
“Amnesty is calling for the U.S. to halt the transfer of tear gas, small arms, ammunition and other repressive equipment, including some helicopters to the Egyptian military and security forces.” The White House announced on ...
Malaria is still one of the biggest killers of children worldwide, taking the lives of over 200,000 children every year. -Dr. Seth Berkley Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) published a press release and ...
“We won’t recognize the military council until they meet our demands, we trust SPA and they are our representatives.” Since April 6 thousands of Sudanese have sat in outside the army headquarters in the capital ...
“In 2015, the general (Khalifa Haftar) boasted to me while we were at his command headquarters in Marj that he would win the post-2014 civil war by killing all the Islamists in Libya, not by ...
Over the past few days, protesters had camped in front of army headquarters, urging soldiers to join the months-long protests. (Peoples Dispatch) Omar al-Bashir, who was president of Sudan for nearly 30 years, has been ...
“Saeed, the president’s brother, is the ruler of our country. He is ruling behind the curtain, we won’t let this happen and the army is with us, we want now a radical change.” Tens of ...
Identity is a basic human right. For the 1.7 billion unbanked people globally, this requires direct subsidy of varying levels. (By Matthew Davie) Globally, 1.7 billion adults around the world—that’s nearly one-third of all adults—are ...
The Women’s Refugee Commission report details the atrocities faced by refugees in camps in Libya, and the brutality of the Libyan Coast Guard, both of which have been financed by the European Union in an ...
Families of Ethiopian Airlines crash victims filed a lawsuit against US-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing in a U.S. Federal Court, the first such lawsuit to follow the tragedy that claimed 157 lives in early March. The ...
Beira “will go down in history as having been the first city to be completely devastated by climate change,” said Mozambique’s former first lady on the devastation from Cyclone Idai. Despite the UN describing Cyclone ...
As many as 995 protesters have been denied bail and continue to languish in prison. Recent reports have revealed the extent of cruelty by security forces on the people of the country, as well as ...
(By Timothy Takahashi, The Conversation) Emerging evidence from the recent crash in Ethiopia suggests that malfunctioning automatic control systems overwhelmed the crew and doomed the flight. Based on my analysis, it appears that the Ethiopian ...
The World Wildlife Fund and colonial conservation are threatening the existence of tribal people in Congo. Read the original article.
An investigative journalist who helped expose corruption in African soccer was murdered by unknown gunmen. Ahmed Hussein-Suale, an investigative journalist who worked with Tiger Eye PI and helped expose corruption in the international soccer organization ...
The World Wildlife Fund and colonial conservation are threatening the existence of tribal people in Congo. According to letters released last month, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the largest conservation organizations in the ...
Merck is ending an agreement to supply a life-saving virus to low-income countries at reduced costs due to supply issues, but will begin selling the vaccine to China. Pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. has ...
The kidnapping of the school children is just a small part of a wider crisis that has been ongoing in Cameroon, known today as the “Cameroon Anglophone Problem.” At least 79 boarding school children in ...
Ethiopia is building a dam that threatens Egypt’s access to water – a country that is expected to hit “absolute water scarcity” by 2030. The famous Nile River is a source of intense disagreement between ...
The World Health Organization is not considering Ebola in the Congo a ‘global emergency’ at this time, but the likelihood is high the disease will spread to neighboring countries. Although the Ebola virus is once ...
Chairs, stakeholders, employees, and more of one South African bank, Venda Building Society, committed $2.4 million in fraud over the course of only a few years. An investigation has revealed the most shocking instance of ...
In a controversial move, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other Disney characters are being removed from Egyptian schools. The government intends to replace the characters with Egyptian war heroes and martyrs and hopes to develop ...
The campaign by pro-cannabis activists to legalize marijuana worldwide received a major boost in South Africa when a top court decriminalized its use in the country on Tuesday. With the ruling, South Africa became the ...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says they have reliable information that human traffickers are posing wearing clothes with the UNHCR logo at smuggling hubs and disembarkation points in Libya. UNHCR workers are often present at ...
A 21-year-old woman is pushing gender standards in Libya through the development of her app, Yummy, which allows Libyan women to sell home-cooked food “Every cloud has a silver lining,” the saying goes. To testify ...
Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan is dead. After a short illness, the global peace icon and a role model for leadership died peacefully at the age of 80 on Saturday 18th in a Switzerland ...
Africa has some of the poorest nations in the world, and with billions of dollars per year lost through financial crime, the poor are only getting poorer. Rising financial crime in Africa has become a ...
Spurts of post-election violence in Zimbabwe were witnessed early this week moments after Zimbabweans voted in the first election since Mugabe was ousted in a bloodless coup. Mnangagwa has been declared winner while the opposition ...
Marches were organized in all nine provinces in the country and also in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia. (NewsClick.In)On Wednesday, South Africa witnessed a nation-wide shut down against the increasing gender-based violence. Tens of thousands ...
A movement to completely eradicate plastic use in Africa is gathering momentum as more countries are adopting policies to help create the world's first plastic-free continent. The hope is to create a continent and a global ...
United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for an immediate investigation into gross human rights violations in Cameroon. The announcement came as Zeid said he was especially “appalled” by video footage of reportedly armed ...
U.S. lawmakers are hoping to combat terrorism and poverty in Africa all by working to save endangered species like black rhinos and elephants. Senator Chris Coons, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ...
The United States has begun to operate armed drones in the African country of Niger. This is in response to the perceived growing rate of extremism in the country and an attack on U.S. soldiers ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed and opened a 2000-year-old sarcophagus in the Mediterranean town of Alexandria. The discovery has generated a whir of debate and excitement with some thinking it contains the remains of Alexander ...
Former President Barack Obama threw what many are calling thinly-veiled jibes at his successor Donald Trump over what he thinks are strong-man antics. Speaking during the Mandela at 100 celebrations in South Africa, Obama criticized the ...
A Moroccan, 37-year-old Badr Idrissi, has developed intelligent drones that track illegal fishing, poaching and deforestation activities. Idrissi and a friend, Younes Moumen, co-founded ATLAN Space, a technology startup developing unmanned aerial vehicles with artificial ...
The government of Sudan is facing international pressure to release Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese girl sentenced to death for killing her husband after he repeatedly raped her. Using the Twitter hashtag #JusticeForNoura, activists around ...
July 18th will mark 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela – South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero, global icon and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Mandela, who died in 2013, bore the brunt of the ...
The 20-year hostilities over a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea officially came to an end on Monday. The New York Times reported that later in the day Monday, Ethiopia asked the United Nations to ...
Refugees at the Kakuma Refugee Camp celebrated World Refugee Day on June 20 just like in any other refugee center around the world; but with a bustling economy and a spending power running into tens ...
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