Africa

Twitter Lays Off Employees in Ghana, Only African Office The majority of staff members, except one employee, from the Ghanaian Twitter office were recently laid off. The employees from the...

Kenyan Court Acquits Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of $60M Corruption Case A Kenyan court on Thursday, November 10th, granted a public prosecutor's motion to drop a $60 million corruption prosecution...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate Warns Against Fossil Fuel Projects in Africa At the United Nations climate summit on Wednesday, November 9, climate activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate...

French President Emmanuel Macron Announces End of Barkhane Operation in Mali  On Wednesday, November 9, following tensions with the military junta in Bamako, French President Emmanuel Macron officially declared an...

Ethiopia Reaches Civil War Peace Agreement After about two years of a civil war between Ethiopia and its Tigray region, a permanent peace agreement was reached on Wednesday, November 3rd...

Kenya Deploys Troops to Fight Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo Kenyan President William Ruto stated on Wednesday, November 2nd, that Kenya had deployed troops to the Democratic Republic...

Biden to Remove Burkina Faso from the US-Africa Trade Pact Following a September military takeover in Burkina Faso, President Joseph Biden announced on November 2nd that Burkina Faso will be...

Deaths Surpass Official Count as Monkeypox Continues to Plague the DRC In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sickness and fatalities associated with the current monkeypox outbreak continue to go...

Wilson Chuma Kiprugut, First Kenyan Olympic Medalist, Passes Away On Tuesday, November 1st, the Kenyan Athletics Federation reported that the first Olympic medalist from Kenya, Wilson Chuma Kiprugut, passed away...