FBI helping Sudan investigate assassination bid on Prime Minister
The FBI is helping Sudan investigate a failed assassination bid on Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. A number of arrests have been made since the attack on Monday. Some of them foreigners. Abdalla Hamdok was unscathed when explosives and gunfire were launched on his convoy taking him to work in Khartoum. It underlines the fragility of […]
UN Security Council concerned over increasing threat to security in Africa
The United Nations has strongly condemned the growign threat of peace, security and stability in Africa. A Chinese-sponsored Presidential statement unanimously adopted by all 15 members calls for more predicable resources and expertise to counter terrorism and violent extremism in Africa. The Presidential statement from the United Nations power house calls on the international community […]
Senegal making COVID19 test kits, with British help
Britain’s helping a Senegalese company make test kits for COVID 19. Testing quickly, cost effectively and above all accurately key to controlling the spread of coronavirus. As part of its billion rand effort to curb COVID19, the UK Government’s awarded a million rand tender to a British biotech firm to develop test kits. That company […]
Cote d’Ivoire becomes 12th African country with COVID 19
Cote d’Ivoire has become the eighth sub-Saharan African country to confirm a case of COVID19 which is not recognized by the World Health Organisation as a pandemic The virus was detected in a Ivorean who returned from visiting Italy. ends intro There are now a dozen African countries treating COVID19 cases. Egypt has the highest […]