An intergovernmental organisation composed of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda, East African Community (EAC), has adopted 35…
Author: Babatunde Oguntimehin
At least one person has died from a Cholera outbreak with 31 others are battling the disease in South Sudan. Eight samples that were drawn from…
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has kicked off in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has again extended its ongoing strike by 12 weeks. This latest decision was taken at an emergency National Executive…
Dozens of people were killed and many more are missing after armed men raided a mining encampment near the town of Mongwalu in the Democratic Republic…
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Nigerian Government to carry out the judicial panel’s recommendations and hold those responsible to account. According to the…
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that killed an officer and 10 Egyptian soldiers in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. Saturday’s attack was one of…
U.S. President Joe Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre as the next White House press secretary, the first Black woman to hold the high-profile post. Jean-Pierre, who…
South Africa’s new Covid-19 cases shot up by more than 50 percent Thursday from the previous day amid a surge of infections driven by two new…
A Tigrayan general and former commander in the African Union mission in Somalia died in custody after he was arrested along with other senior officers in…