‘Health experts in the country welcomed the development but urged caution’ ABUJA, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Nigeria and Cameroon to be free of polio, a crippling disease that usually affects children under five. Afghanistan and Pakistan are now the only countries with cases…

BENI (DR Congo), June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ten people were killed by militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile east where the army is battling armed groups, officials said. In the troubled Beni region of North Kivu, “four people were killed”, the region’s top official Donat Kibwana said,…

WINDHOEK, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Namibia’s Ministry of Agriculture said it had detected an outbreak of red locusts in central regions of the southern African country and had sent pest control teams to the affected areas. The large grasshopper species, which is marked by bright red wings, is common to…

A security guard pours hand sanitising gel into a shopper’s hands as he enters the Tejuoso shopping complex at the Yaba market, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Lagos, Nigeria March 23, 2020.  ABIDJAN, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — West African government ministers have proposed re-opening borders between their countries in the…

KAMPALA, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The High Court in Uganda has ruled that prisoners and citizens in the diaspora should be allowed to participate in elections. Lawyer Stephen Kalali filed the petition two years ago and the ruling was delivered on Wednesday. He argued that excluding these two groups was…

South Sudan leaders JUBA, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his former rival, now the country’s vice-president, Riek Machar have ended a stalemate over the selection of governors for the country’s 10 regional states.The formula for allocation of states between the political camps has been a…

People watch an area affected by landslide after heavy rains that killed at least 13 people ABIDJAN, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A landslide on the northern outskirts of Abidjan following heavy downpour killed at least 13 people, authorities said. The landslide occured where some neighbourhoods saw more than three times…

Anastacio Matavele, whose picture is being held by a family member, was killed in October MAPUTO, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four policemen in Mozambique have been given jail terms of more than 20 years each for murdering an election observer ahead of last October’s election.Anastacio Matavele was shot as he…

KIGALI, June 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Rwanda announced the reopening of tourism activities, with a sharp cut in the price of permits for tracking endangered mountain gorillas. The reopening of tourism activities and resumption of international travel for charter flights are effective from June 17, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) said in…