AFRICA DIPLOMATIC

COVID19: Morocco removed from EU travel list

The European Union removed Morocco from its safe travel list of countries from which the bloc allows non-essential voyage, after a review by EU ambassadors on August 7, Friday. Morocco recorded a record high of 6,385 new cases of contamination in the past week, according to a statistics by the Johns Hopkins University. The official…

Mauritania: 40 migrants drowned off coast

A boat carrying around 40 migrants has sunk off the coast of Mauritania, leaving only one survivor, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on August 6. #UPDATE About 40 people are feared dead after a migrant vessel sank off the coast of #Mauritania, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday https://t.co/ZQ456betyC pic.twitter.com/EPCRiDsgq2 — AFP…

Cote d’Ivoire President Ouattara aims at re-election

Cote d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara,78, will seek re-election in October this year after his proposed successor, former Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, died last month. J’ai la conviction, que par l'engagement et le travail de toutes les forces vives de la Nation, dans l'union et la paix, nous parviendrons à bâtir pour nous-mêmes et pour…

Ghana: «witch camps» controversy

In Ghana an elderly woman was lynched accused of whitchcraft. She didn’t survive the beatings, but some of women who survive the ordeal are sent away or flee to places called “witch camps“. The recent murder of 90-year-old, Akua Denteh has caused an international outrage. Dentah was accused of being a “witch” by a local…

Cameroon: Islamists attack refugee camp

Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be responsible for killing of 15 people and leaving the other six wounded in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday,August 2, a local official told. The village is located in the Mozogo district, close to the Nigerian border in the…

Namibia: no alcohol consumption in bars

Namibia has 2,129 confirmed cases and 10 deaths with the country’s rate of daily new cases now the fourth highest on the continent following South Africa, Eswatini and Gabon, according to President Hage Geingob announcement. Subsequenly he imposed limits on public gatherings, deacreasing to 100 from 250 amid surging cases, the President announced. People will…

South Africa: 58 murders daily

The number of homicides rose by 1.4% to 21,325 in the 12 months through March — an average of 58 a day — the police service said in its annual crime-statistics report. Shocking crime statistics released in South Africa this week. The number of murders has risen every year since 2013. #CrimeStats2020 pic.twitter.com/wOjOtTov1J — Phumlani…

De Beers diamond mining to cut jobs

Diamond mining company De Beers is likely to have to cut jobs, its chief executive said on Thursday July 30, as it outlined strategy for an overhaul of its business after the coronavirus pandemic crisis hit demand for jewellery. De Beers to overhaul its business after Covid battering 🔒 https://t.co/qG9pjOkJyS — Business Day (@BDliveSA) July…

Zimbabwe: EU demands liberation of activists

«The Constitution of #Zimbabwe guarantees the right to peaceful protests; a right that @efie41209591, @advocatemahere and others exercised today. They should be released from police custody. #EU4HumanRights,» reads the Tweet of the European Union delegation to Zimbabwe, demanding immediate liberation of Tsitsi Dangarembga (pictured), the novelist, and Fadzayi Mahere, the lawyer. The Constitution of #Zimbabwe…

Harare in lockdown amid public discontent

Zimbabwe’s two main cities – Harare and Bulawayo – have been in lockdown since July 31, Friday, patrolled by the secuiry forces in an attempt of government to prevent protests called by activists over corruption and rapidly degrading economic situation, causing unprecedented hardships. Businesses were shut and streets deserted in Zimbabwe’s two main cities on…