A Madagascan minister was one of two survivors to have swum some 12 hours to shore Tuesday after their helicopter crashed off the island’s northeastern coast.…
Author: Babatunde Oguntimehin
There has been an accident on a cargo ship illegally carrying 130 passengers when it sank off Madagascar’s north-eastern coast, killing at least 17 people and…
Egypt has retrieved from Spain 36 pieces of antiquities that were smuggled out in 2014, according to the Egyptian Public Prosecution. A delegation from the Egyptian…
Africa-based tech startups have raised over $2.9 billion with Nigerian startups which are creating new products, services, and platforms raising $1.7 billion of this total or…
A report by the United Nations has shown that twenty-eight peacekeepers were killed and 165 wounded in Mali in 2021. During a video conference, head of…
Official data shows Ghana’s unemployment rate has hit 13.4 percent in 2021, up from 6 percent in 2010. Data released on Thursday by the Ghana Statistical…
Al-Shabaab Insurgents have attacked a base of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) late Thursday. The attack was carried out on the AMISOM base Bulomarer,…
Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that emerged in early October in North Kivu province and infected…
In a pilot programme aiming to improve the transport of medical supplies for the country’s health system, Uganda is delivering HIV medicine by drone in an…
Somalia’s former deputy prime minister has been arrested in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland. Mohamed Omar Arte Qalib was arrested at Hargeisa airport and no reason…