Tags GENERAL Ethiopia launches ambitious plan to create employment for 30,000 refugees The Ethiopian government has announced an ambitious plan to create employment opportunities for 30,000 refugees hosted by the country. The
Tags GENERAL World Bank to stop financing oil, gas projects after 2019 The World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction after 2019, it announced on Tuesday at the
Tags NEWS Kenyan who provided comic relief during election feted A Kenyan man who gained fame during the country’s presidential election – for eating from a paper bag while queuing
Tags GENERAL UN honours 14 peacekeepers killed in eastern DR Congo The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has paid tribute to the Tanzanian peacekeepers killed
Tags NEWS Cholera kills 15 in Zambia: WHO Cholera has killed 15 people and made 547 sick in Zambia’s capital Lusaka. The rising caseload is expected to grow
Tags GENERAL Botswana issues travel advisory following listerosis outbreak in South Africa Botswana health authorities have issued a travel advisory to the country’s citizens planning to travel to neighbouring South Africa, asking
Tags GENERAL Death toll from South Sudan clashes rises to 170 The death toll from intercommunal fighting between two clans in South Sudan’s Great Lakes region last week has reached at
Tags GENERAL Zimbabwe’s Mugabe flies to Singapore, first trip since ouster Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has left the country for medical checks in Singapore, his first foreign travel since the
Tags GENERAL Sakho could be facing a long spell out through injury Crystal Palace defender Mamadou Sakho is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after sustaining a muscle tear in
Tags GENERAL Russia’s Putin, Egypt’s Sisi discuss nuclear deal, Middle East tensions Russian President Vladimir Putin met Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Monday for talks over a nuclear power