Kenyan military deployed as East Africa floods kill dozens
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Kenya’s military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over the past month. At least 45 people have died in the floods in Kenya since March, including 10 since Monday, the Kenya Red Cross said. Large parts of the capital […]
WHO warns of falsified cough syrup ingredients seized in Pakistan
Reuters The World Health Organization issued an alert on Monday warning drugmakers of five contaminated batches of propylene glycol, an ingredient used in medicinal syrups, that appear to have been falsely labelled as manufactured by Dow Chemical units in Asia and Europe. The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) issued three alerts between January and […]
Elephant deaths trigger Kenyan call for Tanzania to curb hunts
Amboseli, Kenya Reuters In the rolling grasslands of the Amboseli wildlife park, conservationists fret about an emerging threat to Kenyan elephants that are crucial to its tourism business: licensed hunters across the border in Tanzania. The two East African neighbours manage elephant herds differently. Tanzania issues some trophy hunting licences to wealthy sport hunters every […]
Eleven YWAM members killed in Tanzania bus crash
Eleven members of the Christian organisation Youth With A Mission were killed in a bus crash in Tanzania last Saturday. Two buses from YWAM were returning from a course to their campus in Arusha when one of the buses was hit by a truck and sustained significant damage, along with two other vehicles. The other bus […]
South Africa to deploy 2,900 troops to fight armed groups in eastern Congo
Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters South Africa will send 2,900 troops as part of its contribution to the Southern African Development Community force deployed to tackle armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the President’s office said in a statement on Monday. Displaced Congolese people are reflected on a puddle, at the Muchacha primary school, […]
Tanzania flood deaths rise to 63, Prime Minister says
Updated: 7:15am, 5th December, 2023 (AEDT)Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Reuters The death toll from floods in northern Tanzania following torrential rains this weekend has risen to 63, the Prime Minister said on Monday, adding to hundreds of other deaths caused by extreme weather in East Africa since seasonal rains began in October. Prime Minister Kassim […]
Ethiopia talks with rebel group OLA end without deal
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters A second round of peace talks between Ethiopia’s government and a rebel group aimed at ending a decades-old conflict in the country’s largest region Oromiya has ended without a deal, both sides said on Tuesday. The negotiations in Tanzania between the government and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) followed talks in April […]
Essay: Most east African refugees are hosted close to borders – it’s a deliberate war strategy
Researcher KARA ROSS CAMARENA, in an article first published on The Conversation, says locating refugee camps close to borders opens them to exploitation from armed groups…
Essay: TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa – what went wrong?
TOM NYIRENDA looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at the impact of COVID-19 on the fight against tuberculosis…
African nations tell COP27 fossil fuels will tackle poverty
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Reuters African nations must be allowed to develop fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty, governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous talks. Pressure to leave hydrocarbons in the ground has been weakened this year […]