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Zambia’s finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane says talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are “very progressive”. Situmbeko Musokotwane, the zambian economy minister said timelines and steps to be taken to advance the process for a highly anticipated Extended Credit Facility, a financial assistance programme offered to countries struggling to pay …

US President Joe Biden has announced his commitment to strengthen his support for European-led counterterrorism operations in the Sahel region. The American military presence in the Sahel is significant, but above all it is old, since Washington has been at France’s side since the start of Operation Serval in 2013. …

Uganda has received 655,053 more doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Belgium (153,900 doses) and France (501,153 doses) through the COVAX facility sharing arrangement to support its Covid-19 vaccination campaign. The State Minister for Primary Healthcare, Ms Margaret Muhanga who received the vaccines from the two country’s ambassadors to Uganda …

The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) has announced the ban of a documentary film about the life of a gay couple in Kenya. “The film, I am Samuel, promoted same-sex marriage which goes against legislation that outlaws homosexuality”, the board says in a statement. It added that the film was …

Thousands of Malians were in the streets of the capital, Bamako, to protest against French interference and call for closer relations with Russia. The protest follows diplomatic tension between Paris and Bamako after Mali’s interim leaders acknowledged that they were in talks with the Russian mercenary group Wagner. The march …

The person in charge of health policy in a province of South Africa has suggested that women should withhold sex from men who have not been vaccinated, local media report. “I think it is a good idea to say, ’no vaccine, no sex’, especially for unmarried women. It will protect …

Authorities in Algeria decided on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, to “immediately” close the country’s airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft as well as to aircraft registered in Morocco. “The High Security Council has decided to immediately close the airspace to all civil and military aircraft as well as …

Nearly 46 people are known to be dead in the south-east of Madagascar during an affrontement between cattle thieves and the residents of two villages. Around 120 armed men carried out the raid on two villages, Ambohitsohy and Vohitsimbe. Read also: Uganda: places of worship open, schools remain closed Clashes …

The Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has maintained the closure of schools and announced the opening of the places of worship with strict adherence to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to avoid further spread of coronavirus. “Places of worship can now open under strict guidelines like; limiting the number to 200 …

The vice-president of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, “Hemedti”, accused the country’s politicians on Wednesday of being “the cause of military coups”. This is what emerges from his speech at the graduation ceremony for military forces in the west of the capital, Khartoum, in the aftermath of a …