Ethiopia talks with rebel group OLA end without deal
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters A second round of peace talks between Ethiopia’s government and a rebel group aimed at ending a decades-old conflict in the country’s largest region Oromiya has ended without a deal, both sides said on Tuesday. The negotiations in Tanzania between the government and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) followed talks in April […]
Essay: Most east African refugees are hosted close to borders – it’s a deliberate war strategy
Researcher KARA ROSS CAMARENA, in an article first published on The Conversation, says locating refugee camps close to borders opens them to exploitation from armed groups…
Essay: TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa – what went wrong?
TOM NYIRENDA looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at the impact of COVID-19 on the fight against tuberculosis…
African nations tell COP27 fossil fuels will tackle poverty
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Reuters African nations must be allowed to develop fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty, governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous talks. Pressure to leave hydrocarbons in the ground has been weakened this year […]
Mourners weep over 19 coffins after Tanzania plane crash
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Reuters Weeping relatives of the 19 people who died when a plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania filed past a row of coffins in the lakeside town of Bukoba on Monday as religious and political leaders gathered for a ceremony to honour the victims. Flight PW494, operated by Tanzanian airline […]
Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, 19 dead
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Reuters At least 19 people died when a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while trying to land at a nearby airport, the Prime Minister and airline said. Flight PW494, operated by Precision Air, hit the water during storms and heavy rain, the state Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation […]
Rotavirus childhood vaccine shortage hits four African countries
London, UK Reuters Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close to doing so, officials close to the roll-out told Reuters, after disruptions at drugmaker GSK. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 200,000 children die each […]
Snapshot: Sunset off Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Tanzania to allow students to restart education after giving birth
Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaReuters Tanzania will now allow girls aged 12-to-19-years-old who left school due to pregnancy to resume formal education after giving birth, its education minister said on Wednesday, ending a ban on the return of such students which has been criticised by rights groups as discriminatory. The move comes after a June announcement […]
Compassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah says
Canterbury, UK Reuters Europe should greet migrants with compassion rather than barbed wire and the British Government is “rather nasty” about those who seek asylum, said Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Gurnah, who explored the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals in his books, said he […]