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DR Congo: 11 dead and 900 escape in jail attack
Eleven people were killed and more than 900 inmates have escaped after unidentified assailants attacked a jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s restive east, an official said. “The Kangwayi prison in Beni was attacked at 3:30 pm by assailants whose identity is not yet known,” Julien Paluku, governor of…
Read More »Ethiopia drought: Food supplies ‘dangerously’ low
Aid agencies are warning that Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid by the end of this month. Almost eight million people are affected by a severe drought and they need the aid to survive. Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports. The post Ethiopia drought: Food supplies ‘dangerously’ low appeared…
Read More »Concerns as thousands of South Sudan children used as fighters
The ongoing war in South Sudan has seen a huge number of children recruited to fight. The UN children’s fund, UNICEF, says as many as 17,000 children are being used as soldiers by armed groups. And even when they are demobilised some cannot wait to sign up for the…
Read More »Return to Liberia: Life after surviving Ebola
Three years after the 2014 Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, African countries are still struggling with the virus and its effects. The virus is currently spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an area next to the Ebola River where the virus was first discovered in 1976. Forty-one years…
Read More »Zimbabwe opposition campaigns for youth vote ahead of election
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC-T party, is launching his campaign for next year’s general election. It is his fourth challenge to 93-year-old Robert Mugabe, who has been president since 1980. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party is also campaigning to in a bid to win the youth vote, as high unemployment…
Read More »Calls for government of national unity in Lesotho
Lesotho’s ex-deputy Prime Minister, Mothetjoa Metsing, has called for a national unity government, saying a broader coalition deal would ensure stability after a parliamentary election failed give any party absolute majority. Lesotho held elections last week, the third in five years, after Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, with whom Metsing had…
Read More »Three UN peacekeepers killed in Mali attack
Three United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in an attack outside their base in northern Mali, the UN said in a statement on Friday. All three soldiers killed on Thursday in Kidal were from Guinea, the Guinean government said. The identity of the attackers was not yet known. The UN camp…
Read More »Civilians killed as soldiers clash over Somalia aid
At least 14 people, most of them civilians, have been killed after soldiers clashed over food aid in Somalia’s drought-stricken city of Baidoa. The fighting broke out at a distribution site on Friday after a group of soldiers tried to steal food sacks meant for refugees and other soldiers guarding…
Read More »Al-Shabab attack Puntland army base leaves scores dead
Heavily armed al-Shabab fighters have stormed a military base in Somalia’s semiautonomous state of Puntland, killing close to 70 people and wounding dozens more, officials say. The attack began with a blast at the remote Af-Urur camp, about 100km west of the commercial hub of Bossaso, before the fighters overran the…
Read More »Boko Haram stages deadly attacks in Maiduguri
At least 11 people have been killed and several others injured after Boko Haram fighters launched a series of attacks in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, according to police. Damian Chukwu, Borno state police commissioner, said one civilian was killed as locals in the Jiddari Polo area of the city…
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In Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Reassessing Tax Incentives Can Assist Growth and Equity
WASHINGTON, USA, 31 July 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- In the Democratic Republic of Congo …
