SADC to send contingency force to Lesotho
Lesotho’s baulked at the size of the proposed regional force to help keep peace in the region. Defence sources in Maseru says its less than a quarter of what they were led to expect. SADC leaders are meeting next Sunday to put the seal of authority on the contingency force they’ll be sending to Lesotho. […]
Washington orders US staff out of Somalia
Washington’s ordered non essential US staff to to quit Somalia. It follows admission that US military drones have for the first time strike Islamic States targets in the troubled Horn of Africa state. The US says it has intercepted specific threats to the safety of Americans is Somalia. So US official staff has been ordered […]
Babies conceived near oil spills twice as likely to die as infants
A Swiss study shows babies in Nigeria are at double the risk of dying before they reach a month old if their mothers lived near the scene of an oil spill before conceiving. The study is the first to link environmental pollution with newborn and child mortality rates in the Niger Delta. The study by […]
DRC humanitarian crisis compared with Syria and Yemen
The World Health Organization warns that the humanitarian crisis in the south west of the Democratic Republic of Congo resembles that in Syria and Lebanon. The UN body says three-and-a half million people are experiencing very severe hunger. The Democratic Republic of Congo suffers the highest burden of displaced people in Africa. Fighting in Kasai […]