AFRICA

Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Veteran Ugandan journalist, publisher and analyst Charles Onyango-Obbo has explained why the world will not just sit back and watch as resource-rich Africa does nothing productive with its assets. Quoting former Ugandan politician Eriya Kategaya, in what Obbo described as the ‘Kategaya doctrine’, and his …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains an “urgent” global health emergency, The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday at its Emergency Committee meeting. DRC’s latest Ebola epidemic, which began in August 2018, has killed 2,144 people, making it the second …

Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | AFP | “They’ve placed us in the red zone, which means the tourists aren’t coming like before. Even the aid workers don’t come,” said Antoine Atiou, governor of Burkina Faso’s Hauts-Bassins region. The “red zone” refers to the risk of jihadist attacks — a top-end warning by …

Shattaya , Sudan | AFP | Sudanese farmer Suleiman Yakub vividly remembers the day he was hung from a tree and left to die by Arab militiamen who attacked his village in Darfur, killing, looting and burning. “Villagers were executed in front of me,” said Yakub, 59, a resident of Shattaya …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2019 had it all on day one.  African and global politics, debate and Intellectualism rolled in a few hours….and that is before an even more promising day two, due Friday at Makerere University. The conference was “…fired by the most impressive and energetic moderation …

Conakry, Guinea | AFP |  A Guinea court on Wednesday suspended the trial of eight opposition leaders accused of organising protests against President Alpha Conde, as fresh rioting broke out in the capital Conakry. The opposition says at least 10 people have died in three days of deadly clashes during protests …

Yams are believed to contain gonadotropins, a chemical substance that helps women to produce twins Igbo-Ora, Nigeria | AFP | The sign greeting visitors at the entrance of Igbo-Ora in southwest Nigeria welcomes people to a place unlike anywhere on the planet: “TWINS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”. The rather sleepy-looking …

  Juba, South Sudan | AFP |  Sudan peace talks stalled before they began in Juba on Wednesday as a key rebel grouping said it refused to negotiate with Khartoum, claiming government forces were still bombarding its territory. Juba is hosting talks between the government of new prime minister Abdalla …

Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia | AFP | For decades, herders in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley have relied on guns to fend off rivals as well as hyenas and lions roaming the forests and plains. But over the past month, security forces have embarked on a campaign of forced disarmament that pastoralist …

Igbo-Ora, Nigeria | AFP | The sign greeting visitors at the entrance of Igbo-Ora in southwest Nigeria welcomes people to a place unlike anywhere on the planet: “TWINS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”. The rather sleepy-looking town boasts of having the highest concentration of multiple births of any place on the globe. …