Politics and society

Ghana’s government has announced a raft of measures including injecting $2bn into the economy to help prop up its falling currency, and slashing the salaries of government appointees, including ministers and heads of state-owned enterprises, by 30%. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said the measures were to help Ghana cope with …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has opened a new terminal building at Lagos’ main international airport that has the capacity to process 14 million travellers a year. He said it was part of a larger plan to build five new terminals at five different Nigerian airports, explaining that it was part …

The Nigerian government says fully vaccinated travellers coming into the country will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR Covid-19 test. This is the first major reversal to the public health safety protocols since Nigeria started seeing a decline in the number of infections. The chairman of the …

Burundi has banned rickshaws, motorcycle taxis and all other forms of two- and three-wheel public transport from the commercial capital, Bujumbura. Private bicycles and motorbikes are also banned. Police are stationed on roads leading to the city to make sure the vehicles remain on the periphery. The government says drivers …

Everyone in Tunisia will have a chance to express their views on plans for a new political system before a panel gives directions for constitutional reforms, President Kais Saied said on Monday. The Tunisian president has said everyone will have a chance to comment on his proposals for political reform. …

Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and other cities across the country on Thursday to protest against the military coup and soaring prices for electricity, fuel and bread. Sudanese were again in the streets of the country. This time, not only to call for the …

The Russian Embassy in Kenya has issued a statement in which it blames Western sanctions for driving up the cost of living in Kenya. This comment comes after Kenya’s presidential spokesperson, Kanze Dena, had blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the soaring fuel and food prices in the country. But …

The UN’s Global Fund said hundreds of thousands of condoms, mosquito nets and tuberculosis drugs have disappeared from a warehouse run by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA). The UN Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria has accused KEMSA of stealing drugs. It said they were resold on …

The wearing of masks in public in Namibia and negative PCR tests for vaccinated visitors are no longer required, President Hage Geingob said on Tuesday, as active COVID-19 cases fall to just a couple of hundred. Infections peaked at more than 30,000 per month in June 2021 but the southern …

Kyiv City Hall has imposed a 35-hour curfew from Tuesday evening March 15 in the Ukrainian capital, which is experiencing a “dangerous and difficult moment”, announced Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The town hall also prohibits traffic in the city “from today” at 8 p.m. (18:00 GMT) and until 07:00 (05:00 GMT) …