By David Ochieng Mbewa The Confederation of African Football (CAF) indefinitely postponed the draw for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations scheduled to be held on June 25 due to challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. “At the request of CAF, the Cameroon Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has agreed to postpone the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of…
By Jerry Omondi The number of COVID-19 infections in Kenya rose to 172,491 on Sunday as the country’s ministry of health reported 166 new cases from a sample size of 3,561 tests conducted over the past 24 hours. The ministry also reported 23 new deaths registered in the same period, bringing the East African country’s virus-related…
By XINHUA The Africa CDC said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 132,221 while 4,437,694 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease. South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Egypt are the countries with the most cases in the continent, according to the Africa CDC. South Africa has recorded the highest COVID-19 cases…
By AFP Streets in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma returned to life on Tuesday, five days after residents fled following warnings that the nearby Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again. In the city center, the streets were clogged with traffic, including hefty four-wheel-drive vehicles driven by NGOs, while the number of pedestrians seemed close to…
By Grace Kuria The Rwandan Environment Management Authority (REMA) Lake Kivu monitoring team, has concluded that there is no imminent risk of a gas explosion expected in Lake Kivu, following the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano. “Parameters revealed that the environment remained favorable for aquatic life after Nyiragongo eruption.” REMA’s Lake Kivu monitoring team stated….
By XINHUA Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced on Sunday the captain of Ever Given was fully responsible for the grounding of the huge cargo vessel that blocked the canal for six days in March. “It is due to the captain’s repeated orders in a very short time,” Captain al-Sayed Shuaisha, head of the SCA’s investigation…
By AFP The situation is “under control” following the eruption of a volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Felix Tshisekedi said on Saturday after his government mistakenly announced another volcano had erupted. A week after Mount Nyiragongo roared back into life, causing devastation and sparking a mass exodus, “the situation is certainly serious but…
By XINHUA Chinese construction giant – China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) on Friday launched the construction of the CCECC Dire Dawa Industrial Park in eastern Ethiopia The first-phase construction of the Park is to be on 370 hectares of land on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s second-largest city Dire Dawa. It will have various clusters for…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Kenyan athletes took centre stage at the second Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha on Friday as world-leading performances and meeting records were set. Kenya’s Olympic 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon won the women’s 800m race in a time of 1:58.26 while Morocco’s Rababe Arafi finished third in 1:59.83. In the…
By XINHUA Uganda recorded 690 new COVID-19 cases over the past day, bringing the nationwide count to 46,621, President Yoweri Museveni announced late on Saturday. Museveni said in a televised address that the new cases were confirmed from samples collected from contacts and alert cases on Friday in the country. “A total of 43,401 recoveries and…
