African News
South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
By: Reuters 9th April 2025 Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced... →
Ethiopian Premier appoints new Tigray leader to diffuse tensions
By: Reuters 8th April 2025 Ethiopia appointed Tadesse Worede as interim president of the Tigray region in a bid to diffuse tensions in the restive northern province. Tadesse,... →
Gabon to vote in first presidential election since 2023 coup
By: Reuters 8th April 2025 Gabon holds a presidential election on Saturday, the first since a 2023 coup ended the Bongo family's 56-year dynasty and which the country's new... →
Kenya thinks it can win from US tariffs, but global recession risk looms
By: Reuters 7th April 2025 Kenya is among those exporters hoping a smaller Trump tariff blow vis-a-vis competitors might help them emerge as winners in the nascent global... →
As Sudan's army retakes ground, some displaced residents return to ravaged capital
By: Reuters 7th April 2025 The morning sun cast long shadows as Abdulilah Mohamed, an elderly resident of the Shambat neighbourhood in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, returned... →
Unctad warns of consequences of tariffs on the world’s most vulnerable
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 7th April 2025 With major economies set to impose sweeping new tariffs following those announced by the US last week, intergovernmental organisation UN Trade and... →
Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs
By: Reuters 4th April 2025 Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out... →
Zimbabwe’s plan to drop the dollar is faltering on ZiG crunch
By: Bloomberg 4th April 2025 A liquidity crunch in Zimbabwe is deepening the economy’s embrace of the US dollar and undermining the bullion-backed currency introduced by the... →
