Monthly Archives: January 2021
Battling COVID-19, South Africa prepares for first vaccines
SOUTH AFRICA
Battling a COVID-19 resurgence driven by a more infectious variant, South Africa is preparing to roll out...
Senegal restricts public access to major park following deaths of 750 pelicans
SENEGAL
The Senegalese authorities on Wednesday restricted public access to a major bird park after the mysterious death of...
Shell ‘ll pay for destroying our land, Nigerian group insists
NIGERIA
A Nonprofit organization in Nigeria, the Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI), has said Shell Petroleum will pay for the...
My last trip with Trump
WASHINGTON DC
President Donald Trump -- he'd be President Trump for only another 180 minutes -- climbed the front steps...
Boats emerge from Sahara sand to transport migrants to Spain
WESTERN SAHARA
Beneath a star-packed sky in the Sahara, smugglers and handymen unearth a boat buried in the sand,...
Senior US conservatives divided on Trump’s future
USA
Will Donald Trump be a spent political force when he is replaced on Wednesday by Joe Biden...
‘Extreme urgent need’: Starvation haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray
TIGRAY ETHIOPIA
From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more...
Uganda’s opposition rejects Museveni’s reelection as ‘fraud’
KAMPALA, UGANDA
A day after Uganda’s longtime leader was declared winner of the country’s presidential election, the opposition party...
Another UN peacekeeper killed in Mali, 5th in a week
KIDAL MALI
A United Nations peacekeeper from Egypt was killed in Mali’s northern Kidal region on Friday, and another...
Uganda says president wins 6th term as vote-rigging
KAMPALA UGANDA
Uganda’s electoral commission said Saturday that longtime President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth five-year term, while...