A dynamite explosion has killed seven children who were playing at a road-construction storage site in northern Ethiopia. Reports say the construction company had set up camps to store equipment before the children entered there to play without knowing about the danger.
About sixty people have died after an explosion at a temporary gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso. The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire. The government has ordered an investigation of the incident, after the regional prosecutor visited the scene. Burkina Faso is one of…
The Kenya High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Machage, is dead. The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the death of the diplomat in a statement, saying that Machage collapsed in his Abuja residence was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Kenya’s Principal Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Macharia Kamau, said…
The World Health Organization says a case of wild polio has emerged in Africa for the first time in five years. Malawian health authorities declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type one after a case was detected in the capital Lilongwe. The poliovirus paralysed a three-year-old girl. The last known case of wild polio in Africa occurred…
The United States believes that Russia has a link to the wave of military coups in some African countries. The Commander of the U.S. Africa Command, General Stephen J Townsend said he had received reports of Russian involvement in at least the coup in Sudan. General Townsend who shared his views during a digital media briefing from…
President Muhammadu Buhari has received briefing on the coup attempt to remove President Umaru Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau. President Buhari received the briefing on the sidelines of the ongoing African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement said…