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Ethiopia receives ventilators from the US The US government has donated 250 ventilators to Ethiopia to help in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. The donation came after a promise made during a phone conversation between President Donald Trump and Prime...

Secondary schools reopen in Nigeria  Secondary schools in Nigeria reopened Tuesday, almost four months after they closed to halt the spread of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19.  There are indications the government may be using this reopening to test-run the system for...

The elections are coming up in Ghana and voters have been making attempts to register to be eligible to vote who their next president would be later in the year

Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was released on bail after being arrested, has said she took a risk to defend what she saw as shrinking civil rights in the country.

The utter disregard for human lives has taken a new dimension a few years running now; and it seems hashtags don't move the people who should be willing to solve the inherent problems without recourse to demonstrations. But, we...

Zimbabwe Booker Prize nominee released on bail  Award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, a nominee for this year's Booker Prize, has been released on bail after her arrest on Friday during an anti-government demonstration.  She and Fadzayi Mahere, spokesperson for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)...

Ivory Coast president names new prime minister  Ivory Coast's President, Alassane Ouattara, has named Defence Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, as prime minister.  Bakayoko had acted as interim prime minister when his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly was being treated in France and after his sudden death.  The president...

Probe starts on police beating of Kenyan lawmaker  Kenya's police watchdog has launched investigations into Tuesday's brutal conduct of four police officers pictured beating a female lawmaker in the capital, Nairobi.  The police were deployed to the Nairobi County Assembly to...

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has appointed a slimmed down cabinet to work towards a government of national unity, according to a statement from his office.

Today, Abiy Ahmed Ali, the Prime Minister of the the federal republic of Ethiopia, received the first electric car fully assembled in the country...