Tag: Africa

BRIEFS

Uganda Passes “Anti-Homosexuality Bill”

Uganda’s Parliament on Tuesday passed one of the world’s...

Angola Joins the Battle!

After yet another ceasefire between the DRC government and...

Kenya’s Divine Appeal

As East Africa faces one of the worst droughts...

Coup Attempt in The Gambia

Four soldiers of The Gambian Armed Forces were arrested...

STORIES

BioNTech “BioNTainers” Arrive in Rwanda

Presently, 99% of the vaccines that Africa as a continent uses, are manufactured outside of Africa. However, German biotechnology company, BioNTech, is seeking to change that. In June 2022 the ground was broken for a fully modernized mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, which will be...

Deaths Caused by Rapid-Onset Unidentified Illness in Equatorial Guinea Trigger Quarantine

Equatorial Guinea has quarantined 200 people in the the Northern Province of Kié-Ntem after eight people died in two adjacent communities in the Nsok Nsomo district from hemorrhagic fevers connected to an unidentified illness. Both state government officials and the WHO are working to identify samples, with additional samples...

Burkina Faso Officially Ends Military Cooperation With France

After another successful coup in September of 2022, the military junta in the small African nation of Burkina Faso has rapidly diminished relations with the French government, historical allies in the fight against terrorism in the region, to the point where France is being asked to leave. On Monday, Burkinabe...

Is the M23 Actually Withdrawing..?

« We have sufficiently alerted to the ongoing genocide and condemn the silence of humanitarian and human rights organizations. We received more than 5,000 families in Bwiza fleeing the government coalition that is killing them. Enough is enough » -A tweet from both the M23 and Lawrence Kanyuka, a...

Peace Fails in the Congo… Again…

Efforts for peace continue to be made in the Congo. On the 23rd of November in Luanda, a peace conference was held in an attempt to solve the crisis ongoing in DRC’s east. At quick glance it may look like the conference, and the subsequent conference held in Nairobi...

Heavy Fighting in Central African Republic

Throughout the nation, including the capital city of Bangui, fighting has broken out between the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) and the Central Africa military (Forces armées centrafricaines; FACA). CPC forces attacked FACA positions primarily near Bossangoa in Ouham, but reports indicate fighting has spread throughout the country....

Week's Recap

Russia to Build Two More Nuclear Icebreakers

Russian Federation conglomerate Rosatom announced that they will begin...

Luhansk People’s Republic Dissolves, Integrates With Russia

Luhansk People's Republic Leader Pasechnik has decreed that the...

Iran-Backed Militia Claims Responsibility for Drone Strike that Killed American Contractor in Syria

The Iran-backed Syrian militia Liwa Al-Ghaliboon, or “Conquerors Brigade,”...

Active Shooter Situation, Covenant School, Nashville, TN

Update (1710 EST): victims identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie...
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