Red Hot Media - Africa

05/01/2022

https://sokodirectory.com/2022/01/money-market-shines-as-kenyas-economy-expected-to-hit-5-8-in-2021/

Money Market Funds continued to perform better than all the other asset classes in 2021, for the second year in a row, due to higher returns

19/12/2021

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/16/uganda-secures-180-million-to-accelerate-affordable-and-equitable-access-to-vaccines

The World Bank has approved $180.3 million in additional financing for the Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project to expand affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and build a more resilient health system. Of the $180 million, $164.3 million is an International Deve...

22/11/2021

https://www.rt.com/russia/540930-baltic-state-nato-exercises/

Despite NATO insisting the Kremlin is responsible for renewed tensions in Europe, the blame should really be placed on the US-led bloc for regularly performing military exercises near the Russian border, Moscow has claimed.

21/11/2021

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/five-chinese-nationals-kidnapped-in-dr-congo-after-attack-near-mine

Local authorities say some Chinese mining firms are operating illegally without licences.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

21/11/2021

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/federal-religious-freedom-panel-appalled-at-biden-admin-for-removing-nigeria-from-watchlist/ar-AAQTLn6

The top federal religious freedom advisory panel on Wednesday condemned the Biden administration for removing Nigeria from the U.S. State Department’s list of countries of particular concern (CPC).

19/11/2021

https://mareeg.com/somalia-and-the-re-alignment-of-world-power-in-the-horn-of-africa/

by Dr. M. Omar Hashi As Somalia prepares to elect...

18/11/2021

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/nairobi/article/2001429392/governor-ann-kananu-takes-over-vows-to-revamp-nairobi-economy

The governor’s maiden task in office will be to nominate a deputy given that the position is now vacant.

07/10/2021

https://www.newsturtlemedia.com/breaking-news-pakistan-earthquake-kills-15/

At least 15 people have been killed after an earthquake struck Pakistan’s Balochistan province early on Thursday, officials have told News Turtle Media.

07/10/2021

https://www.newsturtlemedia.com/debt-ceiling-is-the-us-about-to-overshoot-its-debt-limit/

US lawmakers are once again locked in a dangerous game of brinkmanship over lifting the debt ceiling – a limit on how much the US government can borrow.

06/09/2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/soldiers-detain-guinea-s-president-dissolve-government-120266821606

Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday after hours of heavy gunfire rang out near the presidential palace in the capital in an apparent coup.

03/09/2021

https://www.rt.com/news/533791-tanzania-gunman-french-embassy-terrorist/

A gunman who killed three police officers and a security guard in the diplomatic quarter of Tanzania's Dar es Salaam last week was a terrorist radicalized through the internet, police investigating the shootings have said.

28/07/2021

Boko Haram Islamists killed five Cameroonian soldiers and a civilian in an attack in the far north of the country, the defense ministry said on Tuesday.

https://citizentv.co.ke/news/boko-haram-attack-kills-five-soldiers-civilian-cameroon-reports-12920453/

Boko Haram Islamists killed five Cameroonian soldiers and a civilian in an attack in the far north of the country, the defense ministry said Tuesday.

19/07/2021

MOGADISHU, Somalia - For seven months, the United States has slowed down operations against Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, in a strategy that has been widely criticized by local stakeholders, who believe the efforts of US Africa Command were still needed to eradicate the militants.

19/07/2021

The U.N. refugee agency says a series of attacks by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced nearly 20,000 civilians to flee for their lives.

13/07/2021

The Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to start buying cobalt from artisanal miners within eight weeks as it aims to become the only legal buyer from miners in the informal sector.

12/07/2021

Kenya passport holders banned in 54 countries

12/07/2021

South Africa’s rand slumped to its weakest level against the dollar in more than two months as rioting that started with last week’s arrest of former President Jacob Zuma spread, weighing on the outlook for an economy already strained by a resurgence of the coronavirus.

12/07/2021

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Violent rioting has erupted in two South African provinces against the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma, with supporters blocking roads and looting shops. At least 62 people were arrested, South Africa police said Sunday. Zuma started serving a 15-month sentence for ...

08/07/2021

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga says Kenya can be Africa's leading financial center, logistics, shipping, aviation hub as well as headquarters for global business.

08/07/2021

U.S. forces have been assisting Somali troops in their battle against al-Shabab militants aligned with al-Qaida since at least 2013.

08/07/2021

Zambia's founding leader Kenneth Kaunda was laid to rest at the country's presidential burial site on Wednesday despite an 11th-hour bid by some of his relatives to block the interment.

08/07/2021

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Praying, crying and waiting for news about their children, the parents of more than 120 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at the Bethel Baptist High School in the nation’s northern Kaduna state have been gathering at the school awaiting updates about their children...

08/07/2021

The ex-president was given a 15-month jail term after he failed to attend a corruption inquiry.

07/07/2021

Former South African President Jacob Zuma told hundreds of supporters gathered outside his rural estate that he is appealing his 15-month prison sentence and impending arrest by police.

07/07/2021

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07/07/2021

A new Chinese law has led to a widespread crackdown on Christians in provinces throughout the country.

07/07/2021

Nigeria kidnap spike threatens to create lost generation of students

05/07/2021

Armed assailants have abducted 140 children from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria. The mass kidnapping is the latest such incident in the country, with hundreds still missing from raids carried out in the past six months.

04/07/2021

The Abraham Accords represent a future that we believe must become more commonplace: one in which differences are set aside in favor of dialogue

04/07/2021

An Israeli cargo ship was struck by an unidentified weapon Saturday in the Indian Ocean, according to reports.

03/07/2021

Namibian sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have been ruled ineligible to compete in the women's 400m at the Tokyo Olympics due to naturally high testosterone levels, the Namibia National Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Association (NNOC-CGA) said in a statement Friday.

02/07/2021

The Nigerian government refused on Thursday to disclose any details on the re-arrest of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, amid mounting speculation over which other countries were involved in his capture after he went on the run four years ago.

29/06/2021

Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla receives prestigious tropical sciences recognition in LondonKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- It...

29/06/2021

By Dennis Agbo Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, on Tuesday, flayed the manner of extradition, summary trial and detention

27/06/2021

By Ozioruva Aliu Engr. Mustapha Zubair is the Acting Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi  in Edo State. In this interview, he spoke on his efforts

27/06/2021

Rwanda, DR Congo presidents meet at border town to strengthen bilateral ties

27/06/2021

The U.N. World Food Program says southern Madagascar is in the throes of back-to-back droughts that are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation, and have already caused deaths from severe hunger. Lola Castro, WFP’s regional director in southern Africa, told a news conference Friday that she witne...

23/06/2021

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23/06/2021

Dozens of Congo's rebels lay down weapons in the east