Sierra Leone marks 20 years since civil war
Lungi – Dozens of Sierra Leoneans held a ceremony near the capital Freetown on Tuesday to mark the 20-year... Read more
19 Jan, 2022
Hospitals in Ethiopia’s war-torn north reel from shortages, ICRC says
Nairobi – Doctors in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are recycling surgical gloves and using salt to disinfect wounds as essential medical... Read more
19 Jan, 2022
Blinken seeks ‘diplomatic path’ on Ukraine with Russian FM
Washington – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for diplomacy to end the Ukraine crisis in a call with... Read more
18 Jan, 2022
UN’s Western Sahara envoy meets with Polisario chief in Algeria
Algiers – The UN’s new Western Sahara envoy met on Sunday with the leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front... Read more
17 Jan, 2022
Ethiopia lashes out at WHO chief for Tigray war remarks
Nairobi – Ethiopia has asked the UN health agency to investigate its chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for “harmful misinformation”... Read more
14 Jan, 2022
MSF says staff were intentionally killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray
Nairobi – The killing of three Doctors Without Borders (MSF) personnel in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region last June was “intentional”... Read more
14 Jan, 2022
Eight Burkina Faso soldiers held over plot to ‘destabilise institutions’
Ouagadougou – Eight soldiers including a high-ranking commander have been detained over plans to “destabilise” Burkina Faso’s institutions, military prosecutors... Read more
12 Jan, 2022
Drone strikes kill at least 19 in Ethiopia’s Tigray, officials say
Addis Ababa – Nineteen people have been killed in drone strikes in Ethiopia’s Tigray over the past two days,... Read more
12 Jan, 2022
Libya oil fields back online after 3-week shutdown
Tripoli – Production has resumed at four key oil fields in war-torn Libya after a three-week shutdown by gunmen linked... Read more
11 Jan, 2022
UN wants $5bn aid for Afghanistan in 2022
Geneva – The United Nations said Tuesday it needed $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 to avert... Read more
11 Jan, 2022
