Somali radio closure: Shabelle manager ‘in hiding’
The manager of the independent Shabelle radio station in the Somali capital has told the BBC he is in hiding after the authorities took...
Fertility rate estimated at 5.9 children per woman in Uganda
A United Nations Agency report has revealed that an estimated two million more Ugandans will be living in urban centres by next year.
Owing to...
Ethiopia now Africa’s biggest refugee host
GENEVA - The spiraling crisis in war-ravaged South Sudan has sent nearly 200,000 refugees into Ethiopia, making it Africa's largest refugee-hosting country, the United...
War vets protest farm seizure in Zimbabwe
Harare - Zimbabwe war veterans staged a demonstration on Monday in support of a white dairy farmer and 75 of his workers who were...
Namibia: NamPower sued over BEE
National power utility company of Namibia (NamPower) is being dragged to court after it chose black economic empowerment, decentralisation and rural development as bases...
Sudan’s national dialogue only gathers Islamist parties
Khartoum - Sudan’s opposition National Umma Party (NUP) reaffirmed its demand to review the national dialogue saying the ongoing process is just a meeting...
Tunisia has to fight terrorism without undermining liberties
Last week, the National Constituent Assembly in Tunisia began discussing an anti-terrorism and money laundering law. While a clear improvement over the law used...
Unidentified planes ‘bomb’ Libyan capital Tripoli
Unidentified war planes may have carried out overnight air strikes on the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to local media.
Residents reported seeing jets fly over...
Mursi trial for complicity in killing protesters resumes
Cairo - The Cairo Criminal Court in Egypt will resume on Wednesday the trial of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi over complicity in killing...
Liberia finds ‘missing Ebola patients’
Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has...
