YAOUNDE, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon's Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said Thursday that peace and stability are gradually returning to the country's Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest that have been ravaged by over five years of armed separatist conflict.
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Monkeypox outbreaks in Africa are not concentrated among gay men, unlike in other parts of the world, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa CDC said on Thursday.
Outbreaks of the viral disease have been reported from 78 countries, mostly in Europe, and 98% of cases outside the countries in Africa where it is endemic have been reported in men who have sex with men, the WHO says.
But in Africa, where repeated outbreaks have been documented since the 1970s, the pattern of transmission is different, the experts said.
HARARE, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday vowed to continue working for the development of Zimbabwe, warning that Western countries that have imposed sanctions on the country will not succeed in their machinations to derail the nation.
He said Zimbabwe will achieve its development aspirations despite the economic warfare being waged against it by former colonizer Britain and her allies.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Africa recorded a ten-year growth in its healthy life expectancy from 2000 to 2019, the World Health Organization Africa office said Thursday, exceeding the global average and progress seen in any other region over the same period.
The healthy life expectancy in the region “rose by almost ten years to stand at 56 years in 2019 compared with 46 years in the year 2000,” Dr. Lindiwe Makubalo, assistant regional Director for WHO Africa, said at an online briefing, citing the new WHO’s State of Health in Africa report.
KRUGERSDORP, South Africa (AP) — Community members in the South African city of Krugersdorp beat suspected illegal miners with sticks and set fire to their camps Thursday following the alleged gang rapes of eight women last week by more than 80 men, some of whom are suspected of being miners.
MOGADISHU, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A former deputy leader and spokesperson of Somali militant group al-Shabaab has been appointed as a government minister.
Mukhtar Robow has been chosen as the religious affairs minister in Somalia’s new cabinet.
He had been under house arrest for four years after being detained during the term of the previous president for organising a militia group. He was also accused of not abandoning extremism.
More than 20 people were killed when violence erupted after his arrest.
GABORONE, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- As the number of reported cases of COVID-19 has decreased in recent months, the government of Botswana announced Tuesday that wearing face masks outdoor will no longer be required.
Having reviewed the disease burden in the country and most importantly, the high numbers of people vaccinated against the global pandemic, Botswana has decided to relax some protocols in order to allow for more increased economic activity, said Christopher Nyanga, Botswana's Ministry of Health spokesperson, in a statement.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In the shadow of a glossy, thousand-dollar campaign billboard, one of many across Kenya’s capital, street vendors struggle to make even 200 shillings ($1.68) a day and often pocket none.
Kenya’s Aug. 9 election is ripping open the scars of inequality and corruption as East Africa’s economic hub chooses a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The vastly rich son of the country’s founding leader, Kenyatta has deflected graft allegations by calling for transparency but done little in a decade in power to enable it.
02 August 2022; MEMO: Somali Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday afternoon announced his Cabinet after long discussions, Anadolu News Agency reports.
He announced this in a news conference held in the capital, Mogadishu.
He appointed Mukhtar Robow Ali Abu Mansur – the former Al-Shabaab deputy leader who has been on house arrest for the last three years – as the Endowment and Religious Affairs Minister, while Defence Minister, Abduqadir Mohamed Nuur, retained his position.
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tanzania exported a record 10,000 tonnes of meat to the Middle East in the first six months of this year.
This offers prospects of a reliable market there as only 7,000 tonnes were exported during the whole of 2021.
“By December this year, the tonnage will certainly be double the amount exported until June,” said Livestock and Fisheries minister Mashimba Ndaki.
He revealed this during a regional meeting on meat production for the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) member states.
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