Africa
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First rights trial since 2011 revolt opens in Tunisia
May 30, 2018 15:38The first court case brought by a Tunisian commission probing human rights violations stretching back six decades opened on Tuesday, with 14 former officials, including the ousted dictator, on trial.
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DRC: MSF begins Ebola vaccination trial in Bikoro to help curb outbreak
May 30, 2018 07:45The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started vaccinating Ebola frontline workers yesterday in Bikoro, Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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E-learning in Africa, changing the continent
May 29, 2018 18:08A technical expert Solomon Simukoko said on Tuesday that new technology will change the phase of education in Africa.
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Mali presidential election set for 29 July
May 29, 2018 10:54Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will run for re-election this July. He is widely expected to seek a second five-year term as president.
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U.S. proposes sanctions against several South Sudanese ministers
May 29, 2018 09:35The United States has urged the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against several South Sudanese ministers and officials, accusing them of obstructing peace efforts and blocking humanitarian assistance to the country.
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Sisi, Macron talk Libyan crisis ahead of Paris conference
May 28, 2018 16:37President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi received on Sunday a phone call from his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to discuss the Libyan crisis, ahead of the international conference on Libya that is set to convene in Paris on Tuesday.
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Egypt arrests prominent opposition leader
May 28, 2018 07:59Egyptian authorities have detained prominent opposition leader Hazim Abdelazim as Cairo speeds up its repression campaign to silence dissidents and critics of the government.
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Several people killed in separatist Anglophone region
May 27, 2018 11:47More than two dozen people have been killed in one of Cameroon’s restive Anglophone regions, in what appears to have been an operation by government forces against alleged separatists.
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Ethiopia pardons opposition leader on death row
May 27, 2018 07:29Ethiopia pardoned on Saturday an opposition leader with British citizenship who had been sentenced to death, the latest in a series of pardons and releases of jailed dissidents announced in the wake of years of violent unrest.
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Tunisian parties discuss cabinet reshuffle, exit of prime minister
May 26, 2018 16:08Tunisia’s ruling coalition is holding talks to tackle an economic crisis that could lead to a cabinet reshuffle and the exit of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, political sources said.
