Sudan sends troops to Ethiopian border as tensions rise
KHARTOUM, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Saturday sees tensions rise between Sudan and neighbour Ethiopia as Khartoum deployed significant military reinforcements…
Eastern Africa expand rapid reaction forces, accepting Sudan as new member
General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces KIGALI, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Defense ministers from eastern African countries decided to…
UN extends peacekeeping mission in DRC, while initiating drawdown
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN Security Council extended its peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Top Burkina court certifies President Kabore’s re-election
OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Burkina Faso’s top court, the Constitutional Council, certified that President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had…
Covid-19: Latest global developments
PARIS, Dec 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: VACCINES: Poorer countries will begin to…
Zambia Launches Nuclear Policy Blueprint
LUSAKA, Dec 19 (NNN-ZANIS) – Zambia launched a nuclear policy, meant to provide guidance to the country’s national nuclear programme.…
Nigeria: More than 300 schoolboys released after mass kidnapping
Boarding school children return home after the abduction of students by gunmen at the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara…
Covid-19: Africa confronts a second wave as new cases emerges in east, north and south regions
PRETORIA, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — After being relatively spared bycoronavirus, Africa is bracing for the pandemic’s second wave, noting how…
126 illegal immigrants rescued off Libyan coast: UNHCR
TRIPOLI, Dec 18 (NNN-XINHUA) – The United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees (UNHCR) said that 126 illegal immigrants were rescuedand returned…
Cameron PM inaugurates country’s first-ever shopping mall
YAOUNDE, Dec 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Thursday inaugurated the country’s first ever shopping mall…