Banjul, Gambia (AFP): When Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup. Less than a week later she was dead. The infant is just one of 69 Gambian children who have died of […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has reiterated that clinical trials for vaccines to combat the Sudan strain of Ebola could start within weeks in Uganda. In a virtual address to a high-level emergency meeting of Africa regional health officials in Kampala, Tedros said seve...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad’s opposition politician Saleh Kebzabo has been named the country’s new transitional prime minister, said a decree issued by the country’s military leader and interim president. Kebzabo will replace Albert Pahimi Padacke who resigned on Tuesday to allow the formation of a new government. Padacke had been appoint...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): The European Union’s energy commissioner has hailed a “long-term strategic partnership” with Algeria as the bloc turns to Africa’s biggest gas exporter to fill a gap left by Russian supplies. “As the relationship with Russia, so far EU’s biggest gas supplier, is irreversibly broken, w...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Mali’s junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita has received the draft of a new constitution for the country, a key part of the military’s bid to retain power until 2024 in the crisis-hit country. The text of the “preliminary draft constitution” has not been made public and arrived two months after it was [...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian factions have agreed on most points on an Algerian document for inter-Palestinian reconciliation, a Palestinian representative said on Wednesday. “Factions have agreed on core issues as the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),” Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Sheikh Muhammad Swalihu, an eminent Islamic scholar and prayer leader (imam) of Kenya’s largest mosque, has passed away. He served as imam of the Jamia Mosque for 27 years. In a statement, the Jamia Mosque Committee of Nairobi announced that Swalihu, who was born in 1949, passed away in Nairobi after […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad’s Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacke resigned on Tuesday to allow the formation of a new government, the presidency announced in a statement issued a day after military leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was sworn in as transition president. Padacke was appointed transition prime minister last year after Deby, a...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Somalia’s military said it repulsed an al-Shabaab attack on a military base on Wednesday morning, killing at least 20 terrorists and injuring dozens more. The group tried to storm a base in Yasooman, an area in the central Hiran region, around dawn, the military said in a statement. The attack was […]
ANKARA (AA) – Palestinian factions held talks in Algeria on Tuesday in an effort to heal their rift. Representatives of 14 Palestinians factions, including rival Hamas and Fatah groups, are taking part in the two-day talks. “The dialogue sessions kicked off in Algeria in a positive atmosphere,” Hussein Hamayel, a spokesman for President Mahmou...
