Pro-democracy groups began two days of strikes and civil disobedience in Sudan, a day after security forces fired live rounds and used tear gas to disperse protesters.
Africa
As underfunded healthcare systems shift to immunizing adults against Covid, 2022 risks seeing further setbacks in the fight against some of the leading killers of young children in developing countries.
In a sharp reversal of fortunes, troops under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have forced Tigray People’s Liberation Front fighters back into their mountainous homeland in the country’s north.
The 49-year-old man was charged with arson and terrorism in the fire that devastated the building last week.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to open dialogue with political opponents after 14 months of war that has threatened to tear apart Africa’s second-most populous nation.
Abdullahi Tumburkai volunteers his time to help family, friends and neighbors bargain with kidnappers in what has become a crisis of abductions in Nigeria. One negotiation was especially harrowing.
Abdalla Hamdok resignation marks the latest disruption to the strategically-located nation, as it attempts to transition to democracy following the end of Omar al Bashir’s three-decade reign.
More than 70 firefighters continued to fight the blaze hours after it was reported at the historic Cape Town complex, while police took a man into custody for questioning.
The funeral paid tribute to a hero of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid in the cathedral where he spent decades preaching against racial injustice.
The Somali president has suspended the prime minister, who in turn said he would assume the president’s duties, a battle that undermines the country’s fight against al-Shabaab.
After two years of struggling to procure coronavirus vaccines, the continent with the fewest Covid-19 inoculations is facing a new problem: the capacity to absorb and deploy waves of new donations, many of which come with a very short shelf life.
The southern African nation of sun-laden deserts and wind-swept coastline is aiming to develop a hydrogen industry from renewable sources to meet growing global demand.
Thousands of Ethiopian men and women are quitting their jobs to enlist with the armed forces, as rebels advance toward the capital. “Saving my country is my highest priority right now,” said a university librarian who joined a pro-government militia.
The Ugandan military launched a series of strikes against Islamic State-aligned militants in neighboring Congo, the beginning of an offensive to drive the group from the mineral-rich region after a wave of attacks.
The variant’s emergence in South Africa has driven a sharp increase in hospitalizations in Gauteng province during the past two weeks, although fewer patients than in previous surges are being treated for severe disease.
The disparity between wealthier and lower-income countries helped open the door to the rise of this latest variant, public-health officials say.
Scientists say the new variant has a high number of mutations that may make it more transmissible and allow it to evade some of the immune responses triggered by previous infection or vaccination.
The deal allows Abdalla Hamdok to form a technocratic government, nearly four weeks after military leaders ousted him in a coup that disrupted the country’s fragile transition to democracy.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. would treat African countries as equals rather than “subjects of geopolitics” in a speech meant to set out the Biden administration’s policy toward the continent.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the civil war in Ethiopia was risking the stability of Africa’s second-most populous nation, and said that regional allies such as Kenya were critical to ending the conflict and other regional crises.
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