African governments struggle to turn around loss-making airlines
Kenya Airways planes NAIROBI, Dec 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Governments from Kenya to South Africa are struggling to turn around loss-making…
African countries borrowing like it’s the 1990s – IMF
Kristalina Georgieva WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Record commodity prices and low global interest rates have encouraged African countries to…
Presidential Election To Shift Algeria To New Stage: Army Chief
ALGIERS, Dec 10 (NNN-APS) – Algerian Army Chief of Staff, Ahmed Gaid Salah, said, the presidential election scheduled for Dec…
UN Urges Somalia To Step Up Fight Against Graft
MOGADISHU, Dec 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – UN senior envoy in Somalia, called on the government to enhance fight against corruption, which…
Libya’s UN-backed gov’t to investigate into “mistreatment” of captured east-based army pilot
TRIPOLI, Dec 9 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Interior Minister of the UN-backed government of Libya, Fathi Bashagha, issued Sunday an order…
Rwanda begins vaccinating against Ebola
KIGALI, Dec 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) –Rwanda on Sunday started a voluntary Ebola vaccination programme at its border with the Democratic Republic…
Uganda landslides: More bodies recovered as toll increases to 13
KAMPALA, Dec 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eight more bodies have been recovered in Bududa and Sironko districts following landslides in Uganda’s…
Al-Shabaab kills 10 bus passengers in Kenyan border town
Al-Shabaab has targeted Kenya many times since the country joined a regional peacekeeping force to fight the militants WAJIR (Kenya),…
Ethiopia, UN join hands to find durable solutions to displacement crisis
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 9 (NNN-XINHUA) –The Ethiopian government and humanitarian partners have launched a national initiative, dubbed Durable Solutions Initiative…
Libyan UN-backed gov’t forces announce downing of east-based army’s fighter jet
TRIPOLI, Dec 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The forces of Libya’s UN-backed government announced that they shot down a fighter jet belonging…