Kenya will complete by January its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti, President William Ruto said Thursday, as he appealed for greater funding to assist other contributing countries.Funding for the mission to combat widespread lawlessness and gangsterism has been a sticking point, with the UN previously calling the level of commitments “unacceptable.””Kenya …
The family of jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah urged the UK government on Thursday to act to ensure his release in three days’ time, when he will have served a full five years in custody.Abdel Fattah, 42, was arrested on September 29, 2019. Just over two years later, he was handed a five-year sentence for …
Thousands of mourners packed a stadium in central Kenya on Thursday to hold a sombre memorial service for 21 boys killed in a school dormitory fire this month. Grieving relatives wept as they carried the white and gold caskets into a huge dome-shaped tent set up in the stadium, some 170 kilometres (100 miles) north of …
Thousands mourn children killed in Kenya school fireThu, 26 Sep 2024 13:54:59 GMT Read More »
Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the town in Niger is now under threat from flooding.Overflowing rivers are no longer a rarity in the vast arid nation on the edge of the Sahara Desert.But the rainy season this year has been particularly …
Floods threaten Niger’s historic ‘gateway to the desert’Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:47:33 GMT Read More »
Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital, eyewitnesses and a military source told AFP.The clashes began at dawn, several residents reported, in what appeared to be the army’s first major offensive in months to regain parts of the capital controlled by its rival paramilitary …
Mpox epicentre DR Congo is less than a week away from the start of a vaccination campaign, but the rollout faces challenges in a vast country with limited roads, often in poor condition.Residents of Kamituga, a bustling mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, will be among the first to be vaccinated …
Mpox vaccine rollout faces challenges in east DR CongoThu, 26 Sep 2024 06:06:57 GMT Read More »
Growing tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia, heightened by arms shipments, risk destabilising the fragile Horn of Africa and creating opportunities for the Islamist insurgents of Al-Shabaab, experts say.The region has been on alert since January when Ethiopia made the shock announcement that it would lease a stretch of coastline from Somaliland, a breakaway area of …
Rising Somalia-Ethiopia tensions threaten Horn of AfricaThu, 26 Sep 2024 04:29:56 GMT Read More »
Eben Etzebeth will seek to write another chapter in an already storied career when he takes the field for the Springboks in their Rugby Championship title decider against Argentina at Mbombela Stadium on Saturday.The towering forward will become South Africa’s most-capped rugby Test player as he makes his 128th appearance, overtaking fellow lock Victor Matfield, …
As Kenya mourns 21 children killed in a boarding school fire this month, anxious parents are left wondering why the country suffers so many similar tragedies.A mass is planned Thursday for the boys, aged nine to 13, killed in an overnight fire in their dormitory at Hillside Endarasha Academy in central Kenya on September 6.It …
Kenyan school fires scare away parentsThu, 26 Sep 2024 04:10:14 GMT Read More »
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres voiced concern Wednesday over “escalation” in Sudan’s conflict to the country’s army chief when they met on the sidelines of a diplomatic gathering in New York.Sudan has been high on the agenda at the UN’s centerpiece meeting this week, with the dire humanitarian situation and refugee crisis dominating discussions on …
