An elephant named Hamed by residents in a southern region of Cote d’Ivoire has been captured and relocated to the zoo in Abidjan as he awaits transfer to a park where authorities hope he will have non-human company instead. Authorities are catching and relocating wild elephants that have disrupted farming communities, in a bid to…
Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar has committed to ending a months-long blockade of oil facilities, the U.S. embassy in the country said in a statement on Saturday, but oil ports and fields remained shut. The statement said the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) had conveyed “the personal commitment of General Haftar to allow the full reopening…
عقدت مجموعة من قرينات رؤساء دول إفريقية اجتماعا أون لاين من خلال تقنية الفيديو كونفرانس، حيث شاركت في الاجتماع الدكتورة رشا قلج المصرية الأكثر تأثيرا في القارة السمراء. ووجهت السيدات الإفريقيات والتي بلغ عددهن 13 سيدة، التهنئة إلى الدكتورة رشا قلج لاختيارها ضمن قائمة السيدات الأكثر تأثيرا في إفريقيا لعام 2020، وهي المرة الثانية التي تحصل فيها…
Floods in Burkina Faso have left at least 13 people dead and 19 others injured following days of heavy rains across the country, including the capital, the government said on Wednesday. 5 billion CFA ($9.06 million) will be allocated by the finance ministry to help victims, said Abdoul Karim Sango, a government representative. Many people…
Security officers in the northwestern Kenya town of Kitale on Thursday arrested a poacher in possession of 14 kilograms of elephant tusks with a market value of 1.4 million shillings (about 14,000 U.S dollars). Local police commander Ayub Gitonga said the suspected poacher had been on the radar of security agencies amid a spike in…
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has tested positive for COVID-19, the mayor said in a tweet on Thursday. Her rapid antigen test came positive while she claimed herself to be asymptomatic. “As I don’t have any symptoms, I have home quarantined myself as per the doctors’ advice,” the mayor said, appealing to people to take necessary…
Somalia’s Attorney-General has appointed a special prosecutor for crimes against journalists in the Horn of Africa country. Abdinur Mohamed Ahmed, director of communications in the Office of the President, said that the office of the Special Prosecutor will oversee justice for journalists and media practitioners targeted for performing their professional duties. “This landmark decision has…
Angolan authorities have agreed to reopen schools from October, after learning institutions in the country were closed to control the spread of COVID-19, Daily Nation has reported. Learning activities were cancelled in March after the country recorded the first case of the deadly coronavirus. According to the report, State Minister and Head of presidential palace Adão de…
وجهت 13 سيدة من السيدات الأفريقيات الأول التهنئة إلى المصرية د. رشا قلج الرئيس التنفيذي لمؤسسة ميرك الخيرية الدولية لاختيارها ضمن قائمة السيدات الأكثر تأثيرا في أفريقيا لعام 2020، وهى المرة الثانية التي تحصل فيها “قلج” على هذا اللقب بعد اختيارها عام 2019 من قبل مجلة “نيو أفريكان” البريطانية . وأثنت السيدات الأول على دور…
Kenya has reported eight coronavirus-related deaths within the last 24 hours, raising the country’s death toll to 607, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman announced. The Health CAS also said that a total of 104 COVID-19 cases were recorded from 2,285 tests, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 35,460. 74 more…
