Tags GENERAL Mali president seeks compromise with losing parliamentary candidates Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta suggested Tuesday that he could appoint recently losing parliamentary candidates as senators, officials said, in
Tags GENERAL Over 3,000 Congolese refugees arrive in Uganda in three days More than 3,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) arrived in Uganda between Wednesday and Friday last week
Tags GENERAL Alphabet Inc officially launches Project Loon to increase internet access in Kenya Loon, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, said Tuesday that it’s launched a fleet of high-flying balloons over Kenya
Tags GENERAL Glencore copper mine in Congo says six workers have coronavirus Six workers at Glencore’s Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) mine in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lualaba province have tested positive for
Tags GENERAL Interdict granted against SA truck drivers strike over employment of foreign nationals An interdict has been granted against truck drivers in South Africa who threatened a national strike on Tuesday to protest
Tags GENERAL WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne spread of COVID-19 The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group
Tags GENERAL Sudanese capital to ease lockdown from July 8 Authorities in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday announced easing of lockdown and gradual return for work and movement as
Tags GENERAL Dozen of bodies found in Burkina Faso, and rights group suspects extrajudicial killings At least 180 bodies have been found in common graves in Djibo, a town in the north of Burkina Faso,
Tags GENERAL South African gov’t urged to engage SADC regarding terror threat in Mozambique The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday urged the South African government to urgently engage the Southern African Development Community
Tags GENERAL Egyptian, British FMs hold phone talk on developments in Palestine, Libya, Nile Dam dispute Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his British counterpart Dominic Raab held a phone conversation on Tuesday to discuss regional