This is the European Union’s chance. But it’s going to take some explaining to its citizens. If the prosperous, democratic, and stable EU wants to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control, it’s going to require a major, global effort to
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Ethiopian doctors tell the BBC about their efforts to treat wounded civilians during fighting last month.
https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/000_Par6588448.jpg?imwidth=800In the wake of Somalia’s announcement this week that it is severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, the Nairobi government says it will not expel Somali diplomats and instead will seek talks with its neighbor.
http://webfeeds.brookings.edu/-/640387842/0/brookingsrss/topics/subsaharanafrica.jpgThe COVID-19 pandemic has substantially reduced cross-border travel as countries place restrictions on movement to manage the health crisis. However, the costs of these restrictions are clear, with impacts on the global economy, supply chains, and industries such as tourism
Some countries around the world have already started administering a Covid-19 vaccine to test how it works in non-trial conditions. But how will African countries get the vaccine, and when might that be? BBC Africa Health reporter Rhoda Odhiambo answers some of
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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/2020–12–06T122730Z_528880289_RC2OHK9E3IIZ_RTRMADP_3_CAMEROON-ELECTION.JPG?imwidth=800YAOUNDE — There has been widespread condemnation of separatists in Cameroon for a string of attacks and abductions of traditional village chiefs. Anglophone rebels released two chiefs on Monday but killed another for defying their demand not to participate in
http://webfeeds.brookings.edu/-/640295792/0/brookingsrss/topics/subsaharanafrica.jpgSub-Saharan Africa’s spiraling food import bill—which stood at $43 billion in 2019—has attracted mounting attention as a worrisome trend. For years, many pundits have wondered why Africa seems increasingly unable to feed itself, despite having much of the world’s remaining
The two countries reached an agreement in October for Sudan to be lifted from the list. The settlement required Sudan to pay $335 million for victims of the 1998 twin bombings against the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fd72b212700002c11515088.jpeg?cache=hmle3rvddk&ops=224_126 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police said, while the president said the military was in gunfights with bandits in a forest as
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Tensions in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have gone from talking about the potential for conflict into what is now the aftermath of a war between the country’s federal government in Addis Ababa and the regional government in Tigray. An estimated six million people live in the Tigray region. Since fighting began on November 4,…
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