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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold an extraordinary summit on Thursday in the Mozambican capital Maputo, to discuss ways to tackle the Islamist insurgency bedeviling the southeast African nation. “SADC is deeply…

South Sudan on Tuesday rolled out its Covid-19 mass vaccination drive, joining a global effort to tackle the pandemic through inoculations. Healthcare workers in Juba were among the first to receive their jabs of the AstraZeneca vaccine,…

Kenyans have begun signing an online petition asking the International Monetary Fund (IMF) not to give the government any more loans citing corruption. Through the hashtag #StopLoaningKenya, Kenyans have circulated the online petition…

Somalia’s leaders have failed to agree on the main agenda for a crucial electoral meeting, reflecting the unattended fissures between them. Publicly, they promised to try again on Tuesday, even as the country becomes sorely late on…

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has announced a night curfew in all the country’s provincial capitals for 21 days to stop the spread of coronavirus. Starting Tuesday midnight, the 10:00 to 04:00 curfew will no longer be exclusive to…

The death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur has risen to 50, with 132 wounded, the West Darfur State Doctors’ Committee said on Tuesday. The government declared a state of emergency in the state on Monday after…

The United States is looking into reports of human rights abuses and atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the US State Department said on Monday. Department spokesman Ned Price told a news briefing that the United States is “gravely…

The US government has announced the partial lifting of visa sanctions imposed on Sierra Leone over differences in the handling of deportees. The US mission in Freetown said Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered the move in…

Millions of Kenyans are likely to face hunger due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the drought currently being experienced in parts of the country, the government warned. Government Spokesman Cyrus Oguna on Thursday said that…

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has tested positive for the new coronavirus and is in good spirits despite a light fever, the first-term Peronist leader said on Saturday. “I am in good physical condition,” the president, who turned…