Africa

At least 10 Burundian soldiers were killed and 25 others injured after Islamist al-Shabab militants attacked their base in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, the army said. An army spokesperson said five other soldiers were missing. “Twenty terrorists of al-Shabab group were also killed during the attack,” the army statement said. …

At least 600,000 children in Ethiopia are out of school, the result of a severe drought that is forcing many families to move to other parts of the country. According to Gianfranco Rotigliano, the UNICEF representative in the country, these children no longer go to school because teachers have also …

Senegalese President Macky Sall announced the regulation of social networks in the country, calling them “a real cancer of modern societies”. “No organised society can accept what is happening here today. We are going to put an end to it, one way or another,” local media quoted him as saying. …

Turkey strongly condemned on Tuesday the terrorist attack against the military base of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) in the center of the country, where Burunian soldiers house. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the attack by Al-Shabab militants on the AU base. “We strongly …

South African convict Thabo Bester, also known as the Facebook rapist for using the social networking site to lure his victims, has been found dead in his prison cell, according to local media reports. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) spokesperson is quoted as confirming the death at the Mangaung …

African Union chairperson Moussa Faki has condemned an attack on the institution’s military base in central Somalia where Burundian soldiers house. Al-Shabab militants are accused of carrying out the attack in which 170 soldiers reportedly died. But the AU has not yet released the number of casualties in the attack …

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa told British government to stop meddling on the country’s affairs, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports quoting the president’s spokesman. It follows criticism to a proposed law, the Private and Voluntary Organisation Bill, that critics say will give government more control over civil society groups. The government …

Separatist groups in the English-speaking region of Cameroon kidnapped ruling party Senator Elizabeth Regina Mundi, local media reported. The Senator was abducted on Saturday along with her driver in the north-western town of Bamenda, local officials are quoted as saying. An official told the AFP news agency that two wings …

The first African factory producing vaccines against the coronavirus pandemic says it may shut down production due to lack of demand. The pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare, which produces Johnson & Johnson vaccines in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province now risks closure. Professor Tulio de Oliveira, director of the Center for …

The UN chief Antonio Guterres has urged the international community to help Niger’s military fight jihadist insurgents that have been carrying out frequent attacks, the BBC reports. Speaking during a visit to the capital, Niamey, he said the violence in the Sahel region had become a global threat. Antonio Guterres …