South African Airways (SAA) has said it does not have money to pay its employees their May salaries. About 5,000 employees have been on unpaid
Category: Africa
Sex workers deported from Mozambique
Police in Mozambique have deported 43 sex workers who were arrested for violating coronavirus restrictions. They included Zambians and Zimbabweans who were arrested in an
Gunmen kill dozens of Nigerians in broad daylight
Gunmen have killed dozens of people and wounded many others in a series of attacks on several villages in Nigeria’s north-western state of Sokoto, according
Mozambique militants ‘spotted wearing army uniforms’
Mozambique’s interior minister says Islamist militants carrying out attacks in the north have been wearing regular army uniforms and using drones to identify their targets.
Madagascar denies plan for anti-coronavirus injections
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina appears to have made a U-turn regarding the much publicised purported coronavirus remedy he said his country had developed. Last month
Libyan trafficker’s family kill migrants in revenge
Thirty migrants are reported to have been killed in western Libya in revenge for the murder of a man involved in human trafficking. The UN-backed
‘Jihadists target’ Mali farmers in deadly raids
There are reports from Mali that 27 civilians have been killed during three attacks on villages which are home to people from the Dogon ethnic
Tanzania says US spread ‘false information’ on Covid-19
Tanzania summoned a US envoy in the country to clarify a recent warning about the risk of “exponential growth” of Covid-19 cases in the country.
Zambia’s health minister tests positive for Covid-19
Zambia’s Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has tested positive for coronavirus, making him the second cabinet minister to have Covid-19. Information Minister Dora Siliya went public
Rwanda ex-fugitive calls genocide accusation ‘lies’
Félicien Kabuga, who was detained earlier this month on charges relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, has called the accusations against him “lies”, the