NAIROBI, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The United States has ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees in Ethiopia to leave because of armed conflict, civil unrest and violence, its embassy in Addis Ababa said on Saturday.
Denmark and Italy also asked their citizens in Ethiopia to leave while commercial flights were still available, as rebellious Tigrayan forces and their allies have advanced towards the capital Addis Ababa.
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian authorities said on Saturday that between 80,000 and 100,000 people will be vaccinated daily against COVID-19 during the second phase of the inoculation campaign.
A statement by the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children said the permanent secretary in the ministry, Abel Makubi, revealed the acceleration of the vaccination in a meeting with regional medical officers and COVID-19 vaccination coordinators in the capital Dodoma.
MOGADISHU, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- International partners have called on Somali leaders to hold parliamentary elections without further delay.
The partners including the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations among other foreign nations expressed concern about the continuing delays in the Somali electoral process.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, killing at least 92 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
The explosion took place late Friday after a bus struck the tanker in Wellington, a suburb just to the east of Freetown.
NAIROBI, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Ethiopian army on Friday called on former personnel to rejoin the military to fight the advance of Tigrayan forces, state media said, as nine anti-government factions formed a new alliance to push out Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
Called the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces, the alliance includes the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been fighting Abiy's government for a year in a war that has killed thousands of people and forced more than two million more from their homes.
JUBA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations relief agency said on Friday it is seeking additional funding to ramp up humanitarian response in South Sudan where flooding continues to impact people across the country.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said the UN relief agency has allocated 20 million U.S. dollars from the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund, with part of the allocation supporting flood response efforts, complementing bilateral funding sources.
ABUJA, Nov 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — Armed bandits had been killed in two airstrikes carried out by the military in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna State, an official said.
Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for the internal security and home affairs in the Kaduna state, said in a statement that the troops launched airstrikes on some camps of the bandits earlier in the day, killing “an unspecified number of bandits.”
The locations were identified as bandit hideouts after thorough checks and analysis of various intelligence reports, Aruwan said.
PRETORIA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - South Africa's governing African National Congress took 46% of the vote in this week's municipal elections, the final count showed on Thursday, the party's worst election outcome since taking power at the end of white minority rule in 1994.
Figures from the electoral commission put the ANC's biggest rival, the Democratic Alliance, on 22% of the vote and the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters on 10%.
At the last municipal elections in 2016 the ANC got 54%, at the time its lowest vote share since the end of apartheid.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The findings of the only human rights investigation allowed in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region will be released Wednesday, a year after war began there. But people with knowledge of the probe say it has been limited by authorities who recently expelled a U.N. staffer helping to lead it.
LAGOS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A high-rise building under construction in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos collapsed on Monday, trapping several workers under a pile of concrete rubble, witnesses said.
Two workers at the site in the affluent neighbourhood of Ikoyi, where many blocks of flats are under construction, told Reuters that possibly 100 people were at work when the building came crashing down.
Building collapses are frequent in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, where regulations are poorly enforced and construction materials are often substandard.
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