YAOUNDE, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Monday met with visiting Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic to discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations.
During the meeting, the Serbian FM who is visiting Cameroon for the first time, highlighted the importance of further strengthening and diversifying relations between the two nations in future especially in the economic field.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Sitting under the hot sun, hungry women and children await food aid in a camp on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. They have walked for days, fleeing the drought now ravaging a large part of rural Somalia.
Their growing ranks are expected to swell further in the coming months as the Horn of Africa region faces its worst drought conditions in a decade.
TUNIS, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Tunisian government decided on Thursday to lift the night curfew it imposed to curb the spread of the COVID-19 for about a month.
The Tunisian government has decided to maintain, for an additional week, the ban of gatherings in public spaces and all types of demonstrations.
The government urged all sectors to adhere to preventive measures, especially wearing masks, and ensuring physical distancing and ventilation indoors.
COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Benin have killed at least eight people, including army soldiers, park rangers and a French instructor, the government has confirmed.
Six people were killed and a dozen injured in an ambush Tuesday which included explosions from improvised land mines on a patrol of park rangers in the north of the W National Park near the borders of neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, Benin government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji said.
BISSAU, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Thursday that three people previously arrested by U.S. authorities for drug trafficking were behind an attempted coup last week.
Former navy admiral Bubo Na Tchuto and his aides Tchamy Yala and Papis Djeme were arrested in 2013 in a high-profile U.S. drug sting on a luxury yacht for conspiring to facilitate the shipment of cocaine to the United States.
NAIROBI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations humanitarian partners have appealed for more than 500 billion shillings (4.4 billion U.S. dollars) to provide life-saving assistance and protection to about 29.1 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in 2022, the UN relief agency said on Wednesday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said between 12 and 14 million people are waking each day to face high levels of acute food insecurity and severe water shortages across the three countries, due to drought in the first quarter of 2022.
MOGADISHU, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 13 others wounded in a suicide attack at El Gaab junction in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police and medical sources said.
Abdifatah Aden Hassan, Somali police spokesman who confirmed the 10:30 a.m. incident, said a suicide bomber wearing explosive vests wrapped around his waist blew himself up, causing multiple casualties.
Amin ambulance director Abdikadir Abdirrahman told Xinhua that they have taken several wounded people to hospitals.
BRAZZAVILLE, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Almost two years after Africa identified its first case of COVID-19 on February 14, 2020, the continent is on the track to end the disruption caused by the pandemic in 2022, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday.
NAIROBI, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta Tuesday launched a regional cancer center at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital in the coastal city of Mombasa.
Kenyatta said the center which will cater for cancer patients in the region and beyond becomes the second public facility of its type in Kenya after the one at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital.
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A South African court convicted and jailed twin brothers for terrorism on Monday over plans to attack the US embassy in Pretoria and join the Daesh group, local media reported.
Tony-Lee Thulsie and Brandon-Lee Thulsie, both 28, were arrested in South Africa in July 2016 and have been held in custody since.
The South African brothers pleaded guilty Monday as part of a plea bargain with the prosecution, according to local media.
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