AFRICA

Sudan declares state of emergency over deadly floods

6:57 pm September 5, 2020

Cairo: Sudanese authorities declared their country a natural disaster area and imposed a three-month state of emergency across the country after rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses since late July. The announcement was made late Friday following a meeting of the country’s Defense and Security Council which is headed […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

UN expresses concern over ‘dramatic turn’ in Libya crisis

9:30 pm August 29, 2020

Cairo: The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm over what it called a dramatic turn of events in Libya’s civil war, after a power struggle between leaders of the Tripoli-based government surfaced in the wake of anti-corruption protests. Libya is witnessing a dramatic turn of events that underlines the urgent need to return to a […]

In Africa, stigma surrounding coronavirus hinders response

3:15 pm August 2, 2020

Kampala: After 23 days in quarantine in Uganda — far longer than required — Jimmy Spire Ssentongo walked free in part because of a cartoon he drew. It showed a bound prisoner begging for liberation after multiple negative tests, while a health minister demanded to know where he was hiding the virus. “The impression was that we were a […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Accusations of serial assault spark new #MeToo wave in Egypt

11:59 pm July 13, 2020

Cairo: Their accounts are similar. The girls and women describe meeting the young man — a former student at Egypt’s most elite university — in person and online, followed by deceit, then escalating sexual harassment, assault, blackmail, or rape. Some were minors when the alleged crimes took place. In all, more than 100 accusers have […]

Crunch, crunch: Africa’s locust outbreak is far from over

3:53 pm July 5, 2020

Nairobi: The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects in Kenya in 70 years is far from over, and their newest generation is now finding its wings for proper flight. The livelihoods of millions of already vulnerable people in East Africa are at stake, and people like Boris Polo are working to […]