LONDON – Strains of HIV are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight the virus, research has suggested. HIV was resistant to the drug Tenofovir in 60% of cases in several African countries, according to the study, covering the period from 1998 to 2015. The research, led by University College…
TUNIS – Tunisia’s government Friday announced a nationwide curfew as it counters demonstrations over a scarcity of jobs — protests that come five years after similar complaints in the North African country spurred the first Arab Spring revolution. After news of the curfew emerged, France announced a 1 billion euro aid package to its former…
JOHANNESBURG – A sea of blue made its way through the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday morning, as DA supporters marched for jobs. Senior Democratic Alliance members, including party leader Mmusi Maimane, led the procession, which began at the Westgate transport hub. What appeared to be camera suspended on a wire moved over the heads…
DAKAR – Senegal’s President Macky Sall has proposed to cut his own term in office by two years. Changing the president’s mandate from seven to five years is part of several proposals for constitutional reforms which are to be put to a referendum. The president’s office say they are aiming to strengthen democracy. Several African…
OUAGADOUGOU – At least 23 people of 18 different nationalities are now known to have died after Islamist militants attacked a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso. Al-Qaeda militants attacked the Splendid Hotel in the West African state’s capital, Ouagadougou, as well as a cafe and another hotel nearby. Four of the attackers were killed, two…
MONROVIA – Liberia has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), effectively putting an end to the world’s worst outbreak of the disease. The “end of active transmission” was declared, after 42 days without a new case in Liberia. It joins Guinea and Sierra Leone, which earned the status last year. However, the…
FREETOWN – Sierra Leone’s leader Ernest Bai Koroma is not seeking to stay in office after 2018 despite calls for him to do so, the government spokesman says. However, he hinted that the constitution could allow it if that is what “the people” wanted. Supporters argue that the 18-month emergency caused by the Ebola outbreak…
JOHANNESBURG – Mudhara Musara points a gnarled finger at his small field of dying corn, burnt blue-gray by the broiling sun over Zimbabwe’s northern Lower Guruve District where midday temperatures approach 50 degrees Celsius. “Even if it rains now, all is lost,” said Musara, who puts his age at “about 80” and wears a torn,…
TRIPOLI – A truck bomb ripped through a police training center Thursday in a western Libyan town, killing at least 50 people, the town’s mayor said. The vehicle plowed into the facility in Zliten, where about 400 people — most of them policemen — had gathered for a morning assembly, and exploded, according to Zliten…
CAIRO – Egypt’s parliament has opened for the first time in more than three years, packed with supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The previous Islamist-dominated legislature was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012. The following year, the then General Sisi ousted President Mohammed Morsi following massive protests against him and his Muslim Brotherhood…
