Addis Abeba — A delegation led by Major General Tesfaye Ayalew, head of deployment unit of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and coordinator of the temporary security command post in the Somali regional state is in Beledweyne, in the central Somalia. Major General Tesfaye is accompanied by the Somali Regional State Special Forces Commissioner

The White House visual storytellers help shape public perceptions and craft the impressions that become fixed in the collective imagination. Visual archives are, therefore, a crucial tool in defining an administration and its leaders. Kenyan self-taught photographer Polly Irungu is now a part of how Kamala Harris' narrative unfolds. Kenyan-born photographer and journalist Polly Irungu

The banning of motorcycle operations was part of measures taken by the state to check attacks on communities. The Katsina State Police Command has reinstated the ban on the movement of motorcycles across the state. This is coming four months after the state government temporarily lifted the ban to ease movement during the Ramadan period.

KAVANGO regions community forest and conservancy organisations that tried to get a court order to stop further oil and gas exploration activities by the Canadian company ReconAfrica in Namibia should have first waited for a decision from the environment minister on an appeal that they lodged with him. This finding is at the core of

Friday, April 29, 2022 Mary Beth Leonard [Photo credit: US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria] The United States ambassador to Nigeria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Her Excellency Ms. Mary Beth Leonard, has been named keynote speaker at the 13th Commencement ceremony of the American University of Nigeria.…

Friday, April 29, 2022 MTN office used to illustrate the story. MTN Nigeria says its mobile subscribers declined by 1.3 million to 70.2 million following the regulatory restrictions on new SIM sales and activation. The telecommunication company said this in its unaudited results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022, and made available to…

Friday, April 29, 2022 FCT Minister Mohammed Musa Bello The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Muhammad Bello, says there is no going back on the planned removal of Apo-Dutse Pantaker, famed to be one of the biggest Scrap markets in the country. Mr Bello made the statement on Friday at an interactive meeting with stakeholders of…

Friday, April 29, 2022 Bombed Kabul mosque [Photo Credit: The time of isreal] No fewer than 50 persons were killed when a suicide bombers detonated his device during Friday prayers at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of worshippers were gathered inside the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in western Kabul when the huge explosion took place.…

Friday, April 29, 2022 Jim Ratcliffe [Photo Credit: Sky Sports] British businessman Jim Ratcliffe has made a late £4.25 billion bid to buy Premier League club Chelsea. His company Ineos confirmed this on Friday. Chelsea’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich put the Blues up for sale on March 2 before being sanctioned the following week by…

In advance of this year's Sjögren's Foundation annual patient conference on 29-30 April, AllAfrica's Tami Hultman spoke with Dr. Nancy Carteron about her work and her book A Body Out of Balance: Understanding and Treating Sjögren's Syndrome,written with Ruth Fremes, about an underdiagnosed illness that affects millions of people across Africa and elsewhere. Sjögren's is…

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has announced the creation of "mirror" websites that allow RFI and France 24 to remain available online in Mali despite a ruling junta ban on the French broadcasters. On Wednesday, the junta definitively banned RFI and France 24 in the wake of reports that the Sahel nation's army had carried…

PETRI Theron and John Walters will head the Namibia Rugby Union as joint presidents following the NRU's extraordinary general meeting last weekend. The meeting followed the resignation en masse of the previous board, headed by Corrie Mensah, with the new appointments due to serve until the next AGM. Theron and Walters both received five votes…