Tags GENERAL Kenya’s JKIA now open for international flights Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has resumed operations after a 4-month shutdown due to COVID-19. Authorities say they have new
Tags GENERAL Kenya records highest number of recoveries as 605 test positive The burden of coronavirus continues to weigh heavily on Kenya, with reports indicating that the country is nearing 700 new
Tags GENERAL World Bank grants South Sudan 45 million USD to improve service delivery The World Bank has approved a grant of 16.2 billion South Sudanese pounds (45 million U.S. dollars) to help South
Tags GENERAL Nigeria’s Air Peace sacks pilots, implements salary cuts amid COVID-19 disruption Nigerian airline Air Peace announced that it had sacked an unspecified number of pilots and reduced staff salaries as a
Tags GENERAL Survey reveals the aviation sector as the biggest pandemic default risk The aviation sector carries the biggest risk of corporate default as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, this is according
Tags GENERAL Somalia sets up disaster warning centre to battle floods and locusts At a government building in a former United Nations compound in Mogadishu, Khadar Sheikh Mohamed stares at a bank of
Tags GENERAL Uganda reports fifth COVID-19 death,as cases surpass 1200 mark Uganda’s health ministry on Tuesday reported eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the East
Tags GENERAL More than 50 million people face food insecurity by the end of 2020 An estimated 50.6 million people in Eastern Africa are at risk of being food insecure and may require food assistance
Tags GENERAL South Africa’s Eskom seeks $221 million damages over coal deal Power utility Eskom and South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) said on Monday they had issued a court summons in
Tags GENERAL Burundian refugees call for deal to allow them home More than 60,000 Burundian refugees have been living in Mahama camp, in eastern Rwanda, since the 2015 political crisis over