Nigeria’s old currency can be used longer amid cash crisis/in /by
Nigeria's central bank has extended the timeline to swap out its old currency for redesigned notes after the change triggered a cash shortage, forcing businesses to close and leaving millions unable to withdraw their money.
M23 rebellion in the DRC: active diplomatic front, but little hope/in /by
The umpteenth ceasefire has not been respected, the UN Security Council calls for negotiations which Kinshasa rejects and Angola announces the sending of soldiers as 25 years ago: despite intense activity diplomatically, the sky is not clearing up on the frontline of the M23 rebellion in eastern DRC
Cyclone Freddy returns, over 100 killed in Malawi, Mozambique/in /by
“The effects of Cyclone Freddy at the moment are so devastating. We are conveying the dead bodies whenever we find them to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital mortuary of which is currently now full. But still more, we will still be going there with the dead bodies that would be still keep coming.”
Mali: Ras Bath imprisoned after his remarks on the death of Soumeylou Maïga/in /by
A well-known radio and television host in Mali was charged and imprisoned Monday in Bamako after declaring that a former prime minister who died in detention a year ago under the junta had been "murdered ", we learned.
Grain export deal: Russia okays shortened term extension/in /by
The proposed extension is half the number of days agreed in November. The discussions on the initiative which allows exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea come before it expires this weekend.
Sierra Leone: Opposition presidential candidate Samura Kamara announces running mate/in /by
Samura Kamara served as Minister of Finance and then Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ernest Bai Koroma (2007-2018).
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.
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.