Features of the new 1,000 South Sudanese pound JUBA, Feb 11 (NNN-XINHUA) — South Sudan’s central bank has introduced a new banknote of 1,000 South Sudanese pounds (SSP) as Africa’s youngest nation continues to struggle with hyperinflation amid a shortage of foreign reserves.Dier Tong Ngor, governor of the Bank of…

Al-shabaab militant group NAIROBI, Feb 11 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — In the arid northern corner of Kenya, bordering Somalia and Ethiopia, lies a growing frustration.It is largely because of the increasing strength of the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group. Some 1,000 kilometers from the capital, Nairobi, the Mandera County is increasingly coming under the…

PRETORIA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa will start vaccinating front-line health workers next week with a shot that is still in testing — after officials abandoned plans to use another vaccine that a small study suggests is only minimally effective against the variant dominant in the country. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize…

BAMAKO, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Twenty-eight United Nationspeacekeepers were wounded in an attack on their base in central Malion Wednesday, a UN spokesperson said, in the latest violence to hitthe Sahel state. Unidentified militants attacked a temporary base near Kerena, avillage in the war-torn centre of country, at around 7…

Emergency services carry a man on a stretcher outside the workshop in Tangiers  RABAT, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco’s premier has promised “sanctions” after 28 people died when heavy rain flooded an illegal textiles workshop in a basement, reviving a debate on work conditions in the North African country. Authorities in…

A man burns a poster of Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in Mogadishu amid a political impasse UNITED NATIONS, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN Security Council called on Somalia’s leaders to quickly resume dialogue to arrange new elections, hoping to resolve a new crisis in the violence-ravaged nation. In…