By Glenn Thrush and Michael Crowley
Speaking to 3,000 supporters, the former president took a sharper line toward the Trump administration than he typically does in public.
“There is no precedent that anybody can find for somebody who has been charged with perjury just...
Once again, African countries are confronting overwhelming debt burdens. According to the most recent World Bank debt statistics, they owe a total of $493.6 billion in long term debt to their foreign official and commercial creditors. About one third, $117...
Officials tell Al Jazeera Sudan transitional gov't in process of handing over Port Sudan facility to UAE giant DP World.
Sudan's transitional government is taking steps to hand over control of its principal seaport to a company owned by the...
Ramadan is a period during which Muslims across the world are deeply immersed in worship and are particularly attuned to exhortations by religious scholars.
In Kenya, Islamic public sermonising has traditionally been the domain of male clerics. However, according to my...
The US has the highest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the world/AFP
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited...
African leaders need to look in the mirror and ask where this continent will be in 2030 and 2063
By Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the world’s most significant events, has resulted in cessation of economic activities that will...
Coronavirus – Africa: African Union Member States reporting COVID-19 cases
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 2, 2020/ -- African Union Member States (49) reporting COVID-19 cases (5,940), deaths (210), and recoveries (426) by region:
Central (409 cases, 26 deaths, 17 recoveries): Burundi...
On Thursday 26th March 2020, a group of women street vendors who had been selling food items were attacked and beaten by law enforcement officials, police officers and Local Defense Units (LDUs). The attack took place not long after...
The African region is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of reported confirmed COVID-19 cases
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (Republic of the), March 26, 2020/ -- The African region is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of reported confirmed COVID-19...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the disruption of immunization and basic health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK, 26 March 2020: “Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is overstretching health services as health workers are...