Local communities living near Mount Kilimanjaro are working hard to put a fire currently burning on Africa’s highest peak. Both the Kilimanjaro National Park and the Tanzanian National Parks service confirmed the fire broke out late Sunday afternoon. Tanzania’s park’s service posted a blurry photograph on its Twitter account of what appeared to be Mount…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Sunday that a total of 390 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast in the past 48 hours. “In the past 48 hours, 390 migrants, among them women and children, have been intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM Libya tweeted. “While our teams are present at disembarkation…
The presidents of four countries conferred by video on Wednesday over security in the African Great Lakes region, where armed groups pose a chronic threat, DR Congo said. The twice-postponed talks gathered the heads of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, the Congolese president’s office said. Burundi did not take part. “The aim…
Tanzania and Malawi on Wednesday agreed to foster economic cooperation in transport, fisheries, mining, tourism and agricultural sectors. The agreement to promote economic cooperation between the two countries was made during talks between Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Malawian counterpart Lazarus Chakwera in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam. The talks were held at…
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 positive cases across the African continent has reached 1,526,000 as of Wednesday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, a specialized healthcare agency of African Union (AU) Commission, said in a statement issued on Wednesday that the number of deaths due to…
Mozambique’s Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs announced Wednesday that the country will introduce non-custodial sentences from 2021, a measure that will significantly impact on the management of prisoners in the southeast African country. The announcement was made by the deputy minister Filimao Suaze, who spoke to the press at the opening of a…
A team of military experts under the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism (EJVM), a Great Lakes regional military framework, on Monday investigated 19 Burundian fighters’ illegal entry into Rwanda, the Rwandan military said. The experts, with the mission to verify and report back to EJVM Command on the cross-border incident, visited Ruheru sector, Nyaruguru district in southern…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday said the country is now open to the world, urging tourists to visit the east African country following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Museveni said in a tweet that tourists are free to visit the country following the reopening of the country’s Entebbe International Airport and national borders after…
Egypt confirmed late on Sunday 108 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total cases registered in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic to 103,683, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 11 patients died from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 5,981, while 81 others completely recovered, increasing…
In a campaign South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa calls a “national priority”, South Africa plans to lease state land for farming in a bid to redress longstanding racial imbalances, The program, involving some 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of vacant or underutilised land will also create jobs, he said. Plots will be available for 30-year…
