Police arrive to disperse demonstrators in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Credit Photographer/AFP By AFP Eighteen people died Monday after police in Madagascar opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child, a senior doctor told AFP. Dozens were wounded, some of them seriously. “At the moment, 18 people have

Somalia Puntland is hosting a general meeting between the federal government and the regional governments, which will soon take place in the Garowe town, as confirmed according to sources. This matter was decided during the talks held by the President of Somalia Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and the governor Puntland Said Deni in Garowe, although

President-Elect William Ruto By Business Daily Africa The new President will first have to get Parliament to approve borrowing limits for the next financial year before considering the budget, in changes aimed at forcing the government to leave within its means. This is after the outgoing National Assembly amended the Standing Orders to require parliament

By The Associated Press Fisticuffs in the cockpit, leaving a leaky engine running while cruising over Africa — Air France pilots are under scrutiny after recent incidents that have prompted French investigators to call for tougher safety protocols. Two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in

By Anadolu Agency Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday the country’s nuclear program has become indigenous and arch-foe Israel has been unable to prevent its progress through sabotage, assassinations, and threats. Raisi was addressing a news conference in Tehran, attended by local and foreign media, and coinciding with the first anniversary of his government that

Ben van Beurden, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell, Photographer Reuters By Reuters Europe could face several winters of gas shortage as a result of the cuts to Russian supplies, Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden told a news conference in Norway on Monday. “It may well be that we will have a number

Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz, left, with his lawyer Daniel Kinzer arrives to a courthouse in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) By The Associated Press Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz returns to a Geneva courthouse on Monday to appeal his conviction on charges of corrupting foreign public officials and

By The East African Three national airlines in the region Kenya Airways, Uganda Airlines and Air Tanzania are flying in the loss-making zones and could remain in trouble for years to come, experts have warned. For instance, Uganda Airlines, in the news for the past fortnight as a parliamentary oversight committee probed its operations, could

Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda’s dictator’s Yoweri Museveni, Photographer Reuters Uganda’s Commander of Land Forces Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba was this week speaking a different language on the Ethiopian conflict, the result of a trip to Addis Ababa and an apparent lobbying by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government, according to The East Africa

The Prime Minister of Somalia, Mr. Hamza Abdi Barre, who is currently in Tunisia, had a special meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Mr. Yoshimasa Hayashi, while on the other hand, the TICAD8 international conference between the Japanese government and African leaders. Prime Minister Hamza and Yoshimasa Hayashi, in a meeting, talked