Refugees in Africa face hunger as COVID-19 worsens food shortages, agencies warn

By Citizen Reporter,

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply ch...

coronavirus , refugees , UNHCR , WFP

Over 40,000 people forcefully evicted in East Africa during coronavirus crisis

By Reuters,

More than 40,000 people across East Africa have been forcibly evicted from their homes since March, putting them at risk of contracting COVID-19, said...

coronavirus , demolished

TECNO, UNHCR to support education for African refugee children

By Citizen Reporter,

Leading smartphone brand TECNO has announced a new partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that will provide qualit...

Tecno , UNHCR

Jailed Iranian journalist faces new ‘absurd’ charge

By VOA,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the latest "absurd charge" brought against jailed Iranian journalist and human rights advocate Narges Mo...

Iranian journalist , Narges Mohammadi , reporters without borders

African music legend Mory Kante dies aged 70 in Guinea

By Reuters,

Musician Mory Kante, who helped win African music a global following, has died in the capital of his homeland Guinea at the age of 70, his agent said ...

Mory Kante

ANNAN FOUNDATION: Democracy must not become the silent victim of the coronavirus pandemic

By Guest Writer,

While governments everywhere struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic and do all they can to protect public health, democracy is at risk in many p...

coronavirus , Kofi Annan Foundation , Nane Annan

Kenya’s Covid-19 cases rise to 912 as Meru, Garissa record first infection

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Twenty-five more patients have tested positive for Covid-19 in Kenya raising the total number of coronavirus cases in Kenya to 912. The new patient...

30 out of 193 Kenyans who tested positive for Covid-19 abroad died, CS Omamo says

By Nganga Njoroge,

30 out of 193 Kenyans who have tested positive for Covid-19 outside the country have succumbed to the virus, Foreign Affairs CS Omamo has said. Acc...

coronavirus , Diaspora , omamo

Italy becomes third country to top 30,000 Covid-19 deaths

By VOA,

Italy on Friday became the third country to record more than 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus, with only Britain and the United States reporting mor...

coronavirus , italy

What happens if a coronavirus vaccine is never developed? It has happened before

By CNN,

As countries lie frozen in lockdown and billions of people lose their livelihoods, public figures are teasing a breakthrough that would mark the end o...

coronavirus , coronavirus vaccine

Chelsea’s Rudiger covers catering costs for nurses at Berlin hospital

By Agencies,

Toni Rudiger is helping out the hospital where he was born in Berlin by paying for the nurses' catering for at least the next three months. ...

Chelsea FC , Toni Rudiger

South Sudan, a country of 12 million people, has only 4 ventilators

By CNN,

Covid-19 cases have topped 2.2 million globally and countries around the world are scrambling to buy life-saving equipment as the pandemic places ...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , south sudan , ventilators , who

In Africa, COVID-19 crisis puts squeeze on millions who rely on remittances

By VOA,

When the coronavirus began hitting Western economies, it hurt the economies of African countries, too – not only because of a loss in trade and tour...

coronavirus , covid

Africa’s leaders forced to confront healthcare systems they neglected for years

By CNN,

Africa's ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own co...

Africa health care

Kenya, Uganda & other IGAD countries to set up regional response plan for coronavirus

By PSCU,

Member states of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have agreed to forge a joint approach to curb the spread of the novel coronavir...

coronavirus , IGAD , Uhuru kenyatta

64 Ethiopians found dead in shipping container in Mozambique

By CNN,

The bodies of 64 male migrants were discovered Tuesday in a sealed shipping container at a checkpoint in Tete, Mozambique, according to the UN's Inter...

Mozambique

3 men sentenced to 125 years each over drowning of Syrian boy

By CNN,

Three human traffickers have been sentenced in a Turkish court to 125 years each in prison over the tragic drowning in 2015 of Syrian toddler Alan K...

Alan Kurdi , human traffickers , Syria

OPINION: Let’s support war on graft as we build ‘Made in Kenya’ brand

By Citizen,

By Michael Cherambos In these times of mass production, real quality is hard to come by. I personally find that the best quality products can still...

Made in Kenya

Coronavirus outbreak ‘getting bigger’ after Nigeria case: WHO

By Reuters,

Coronavirus outbreak is “getting bigger”, the World Helath Organization (WHO) said on Friday after Nigeria confirmed sub-Saharan Africa’s first ...

coronavirus

Cameroonian man claims he was stripped naked, bound like luggage on Turkish Airlines

By Rene Oswere,

What should have been a nice trip for Emmanuel Chedjou turned into a nightmare after he was bound in plastic film and forced onto a Turkish Airlines p...

Cameroonian , Someon Chedjou , Turkish Airlines