MOMBASA, Kenya, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday vowed to intensify measures against transnational crime and corruption which he said cannot be tackled without cross-institutional and cross-border cooperation.
Kenyatta called for a multi-agency approach, saying transnational organized crime networks exploit legitimate public institutions.
18 May 2022; MEMO: Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has welcomed the US' decision to redeploy special operation forces in Somalia to help in the fight against the Al-Shabab militant group, Anadolu news agency reported.
Mohamud's office said in a short statement posted on Twitter that the Somali president "thanks and appreciates" his American counterpart, Joe Biden, for authorising the deployment of American troops to Somalia.
MOGADISHU, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was re-elected as the tenth President of Somalia, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Farmajo in the third round of vote held in the capital, Mogadishu on Sunday.
Farmajo, who was seeking re-election for the third term in office, conceded the defeat and shook hands with Mohamud.
The 67-year-old Mohamud, who was previously president from 2012-2017, becomes the first president to be elected twice in the history of Somalia.
DAKAR, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of poverty reduction in Africa, said a report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
KIGALI, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The use of face masks will no longer be mandatory in outdoor spaces in Rwanda, according to a communique of the Cabinet of Rwanda.
"Wearing face masks is no longer mandatory, however, people are encouraged to wear masks indoors," said the communique issued by the Office of the Prime Minister late Friday.
The public is urged to get frequently tested while continuing to observe preventive measures.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.
For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths, said Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
KAMPALA, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cleared Uganda to start building a nuclear facility for power generation, a visiting top official of the agency said here.
According to a State House statement issued here, Aline Des Cloizeaux, IAEA's director in charge of Nuclear Power for Africa, told Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Monday that IAEA has come up with recommendations for the East African country to start building and production of nuclear power.
MOGADISHU, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Mohamed Farmajo has officially announced his candidacy for re-election in the presidential elections slated for May 15 in the capital, Mogadishu.
Farmajo who made the announcement in a televised speech on Sunday evening expressed his commitment to continue with the progress and development that he has started during his first term in office.
The incumbent president who was elected in February 2017 said he decided to seek re-election in response to the many calls from the Somalis.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Ami Sana hangs a tattered tarp for a bit of shade where she can rest on a break from pounding stones under the scorching sun.
“The work is hard. It makes my body weak, but what else can I do?” she asked.
The mother of six is one of 2 million people displaced by Burkina Faso’s rapidly rising Islamic extremist violence, according to the U.N.
Amid the clamor of clanging pickaxes and falling rocks, Sana has found work in the Pissy granite mine on the outskirts of Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Public fetes celebrating the son of Uganda’s leader are raising concern that he is aiming for the presidency after years of apparently being groomed to succeed his father, President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power since 1986.
Three events marking Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s 48th birthday have been held in recent days in the capital, Kampala, and his supporters in other parts of this East African country have staged lively rallies they said were in tribute to their future president.
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