In Sudan, protesters mass to save ‘revolution’
Khartoum – Flashing victory signs, honking car horns and burning tyres, masses of Sudanese protesters fearing a return to... Read more
22 Oct, 2021
Kenya runner Agnes Tirop’s death highlights pressures faced by female athletes
Nairobi – The death of Kenyan running star Agnes Tirop has thrown a spotlight on the pressures faced by the... Read more
22 Oct, 2021
Ethiopia launches fourth air strike this week on Tigray capital
Addis Ababa – Ethiopia said on Thursday it had launched another air strike on the capital of war-battered Tigray, the... Read more
22 Oct, 2021
Northern white rhino retired from world-first breeding project
Nairobi – Scientists attempting to bring back the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros announced on Thursday they would stop harvesting eggs... Read more
21 Oct, 2021
Rival Sudan camps urge peaceful protests as tensions rise
Khartoum – Rival Sudanese protest leaders on Wednesday urged their supporters to remain peaceful, on the eve of a... Read more
21 Oct, 2021
Prosecutors appeal after ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero jailed
Kigali – Rwandan prosecutors said on Wednesday they have filed an appeal against a court ruling that sentenced “Hotel... Read more
21 Oct, 2021
Kenya lifts dusk-to-dawn Covid curfew
Nairobi – Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Wednesday the immediate lifting of a nationwide coronavirus curfew in force... Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Neglected eastern Sudan tribes in ‘quest for justice’
Port Sudan – Under the harsh rule of ex-president Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s eastern tribes felt abandoned and neglected, even taking... Read more
20 Oct, 2021
New Ethiopia air strike on Tigray capital
Addis Ababa – Ethiopia’s military launched a new air strike on the Tigrayan capital Mekele on Wednesday, the second... Read more
20 Oct, 2021
Sex, hope and activism: Meet ‘Uganda’s rudest woman’
Kampala – Her sexually explicit protests have been likened to pornography, but Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi says... Read more
20 Oct, 2021
