EU mounts air, sea and space operation enforcing UN arms embargo on Libya
The European Union today started a one-year air sea and space operation enforcing the United Nations arms embargo on Libya. It will involve searching ships in the Mediterranean carrying arms off Libya and checking on illegal fuel and oil being smuggled from the war-torn North African country. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says diplomacy […]
Ethiopia delays parliamentary elections because of COVID 19
Ethiopia’s postponed key parliamentary elections in August because of COVID 19. The country’s electoral board will announce a new timeline after the pandemic ends. The election will be a crucial test of the reformist agenda of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who is dismantling on the most repressive systems in Africa and […]
COVID 19 is the fifth deadly disease being fought in the Congo
The COVID 19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is only one of five deadly diseases being fought by specialists from the United Nations Children’s Fund. The world body says its absolutely vital to beef up health care of children in the DRC also facing measles, cholera, malaria and EBOLA. The figures are alarming. […]
Botswana’s first COVID 19 fatality has already been buried
Botswana’s first COVID19 fatality’s a 79 year old woman who died in the south-eastern town of Ramotswa last week and has been buried. The announcement comes as President Mokgweetsi Masisi announces a national lockdown and declares a state of emergency. There are three confirmed cases of COVID 19 in Botswana and the patients have been […]
ICRC warns COVID 19 will take hold of some of the world’s most vulnerable communities in Africa
The International Committee of the Red Cross warns that COVID 19 will devastate tens of millions of Africans in conflict and violence areas. The organisation that does almost half its work in Africa says weak health care facilities on the continent won’t be able to cope with the pandemic. Africa has so far been the […]