Somalia suicide bombing kills 5, injures 11, including governor/in /by
The attack was not immediately claimed, but eyes are on the Shebab, an al-Qaeda affiliated group that regularly carries out suicide bombings in the poor and volatile Horn of Africa country.
DRC: Observatory sights “burning light” atop a volcano, calls for calm/in /by
"From 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT), a glow was observed at the top of the Nyamulagira volcano," neighboring Nyiragongo, whose eruption in May 2021 had killed 32 people and destroyed several hundred houses in Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, according to the observatory.
BioNTech mobile mRNA vaccine labs reach Rwanda/in /by
Six mobile vaccine production units from German pharmaceutical company BioNTech land at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda. These are the first shipments of their kind to be sent to Africa as the continent seeks to boost mRNA vaccine manufacturing.
Africa: BP’s Shift ‘Back to Petroleum’ Prods Consideration of a Climate Oil Price Cap/in /by
[IPS] Washington DC -- BP, the oil company that previously brought us "Beyond Petroleum" and more recently robust corporate climate goals, has announced a return in emphasis to its traditional business of producing oil. Drawn by the inescapable appeal of oil's latest high profits, has BP rebranded itself as "Back to Petroleum?"
Malawi declares state-of-disaster after cyclone’s deadly return/in /by
At least 99 people have died in the southern African country, many of them in Chilobwe, a hillside settlement near Malawi's second-largest city, Blantyre.
Ruth E. Carter makes history becoming the first Black woman to win two Oscars/in /by
At the 95th Academy Awards, American costume designer Ruth E. Carter made history becoming the first Black woman to win two Oscars.
Death toll in Gabon ferry disaster rises to 6 with 31 still missing/in /by
As the search continues, the death toll in the ferry disaster off the coast of Gabon last Thursday has risen to six, with thirty-one people still missing.
Mauritania mourns gendarme killed in search for jihadist fugitives, 1 escapee arrested/in /by
Three escaped jihadist prisoners were killed in Mauritania during an operation to recapture them after the prison break, the government said. On Sunday (Mar. 12), hundreds of people attended the funeral of a gendarme who was killed during the operation to arrest according to the AFP.
South Africa: Public sector workers protest, demand wage increase/in /by
“Since the strike started on Monday the 6th, I have been deployed here and no one was intimidated. Those who wanted to go to work, they went freely to work. So should anything happen within (the hospital) they are the ones to be blamed. We are not part of that...." Martha Mokoena
Award-winning Ethiopian journalist sounds the alarm over press freedom/in /by
An Ethiopian journalist who received an award at the White House in the United States last week, has sounded the alarm over press freedom in her country.