Category: Rest of Africa

On March 18, 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant of arrest against Putin for alleged war crimes in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

The trip to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia until April 2 follows a December summit hosted by President Joe Biden in Washington with leaders from Africa, where the US hopes to balance the rising influence of China and Russia.

The EU has supported and trained the Libyan coastguard which returns migrants stopped at sea to detention centres and have funded Libyan border management programmes via the Italian government.

This week, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) launched mobile maternity clinics, targeting up to 375,000 people in Somalia’s regions hardest hit by drought. The aim is to follow women who need maternity services and to improve safe deliveries.

This was announced by the office of national coordination for the construction of the dam during an occasion to mark 12 years since its foundation stone was laid.

This week, Ethiopian legislators unbanned the TPLF as a terrorist group, arguing the country was striving to “bring sustainable peace” and that removing the TPLF from the list of terrorist organisations will help the group abandon violence as is proposed in the peace agreement and...

However, there was no indication the scourge in Equatorial Guinea was related to the one in Tanzania’s Bukoba region where some eight people had been confirmed with it, five of whom have since died.  

Nigeria's president-elect Bola Tinubu on Wednesday dismissed Nigerian media reports of ill health, his campaign saying he had travelled abroad to rest and plan his transition programme after a "very exhaustive" presidential election campaign.

Ethiopia has dropped a draft motion that sought to bring an early end to a UN mandated investigative probe into the Tigray war, diplomats and observers told Reuters, after pressure from Western countries.

“After years of efforts to build democracy, what we've seen in the last year and a half is the Tunisian government taking a very different direction," Leaf told Reuters, voicing Washington's clearest criticism of Saied to date.