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Kenya: Mbadi Urges Fiscal Prudence in Inaugural Budget Statement
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has issued a stark warning over Kenya's rising public debt, urging for tighter financial discipline, strategic planning, and more efficient revenue mobilization to prevent a looming fiscal crisis.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:
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Zambia: Disagreements Cloud Final Farewell for Former President Lungu
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The death of Zambia's former president Edgar Lungu at 68 sparked confusion about funeral arrangements due to disagreements between his family, his party Patriotic Front (PF), and the government.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Mali: International Investigation Reveals Wagner Group's Secret Prisons in Mali
[RFI] A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity. Reporters with the Forbidden Stories consortium - which includes RFI's sister channel France 24 - reveal how the Wagner paramilitary group duplicated methods it has used in Russia and Ukraine.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Sudan: Sudan's Children in Crisis On World Day Against Child Labour
[Dabanga] Geneva / Khartoum -- As World Day Against Child Labour is observed globally today, the International Labour Organization (ILO) laments that approximately 160 million children are part of the global workforce, comprising 63 million girls and 97 million boys, with nearly 79 million engaged in work deemed hazardous to their health, safety, and development.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Africa: How to Centre Mental Health in Displacement
[The New Humanitarian] London -- What lessons can be learned from Lebanon's displacement crisis?
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: Harare Goes Green - Capital City Leads Zimbabwe's Climate Fight With Bold Urban Solutions
[RFI] Harare, Zimbabwe - Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, is fast becoming a key player in the battle against climate change, developing innovative approaches to tackle waste management, restore degraded ecosystems, and promote sustainable urban planning. Like many other cities across the globe, Harare faces significant environmental challenges - yet it is also a site of remarkable community-driven solutions and...
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:South Africa: Red Tape Stops South Africa Kids From Getting ADHD Meds
[Bhekisisa] Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa, especially those who can't afford monthly doctor's visits, don't access medication regularly. It's time that we change that script, argues psychiatrist Renata Schoeman.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:China ready to drop all tariffs on African imports
The move comes as the continent's exports face the possibility of high tariffs from the US.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Kenya: Protesters Teargassed in Nairobi As Outrage Grows Over Murder of Albert Ojwang in Police Custody
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Police on Thursday morning fired teargas to disperse protesters in Nairobi's Central Business District who had gathered to demand justice for Albert Ojwang, the social media influencer who was murdered in police custody last week under controversial circumstances.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Liberia: Koffa Dismisses Arson Case, Blasts Prosecutors' Evidence As 'Hodgepodge of Recordings'
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Monrovia City Court is set to rule in the coming weeks on a motion to dismiss the arson case involving former House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa and four sitting lawmakers.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: 2027 Is Too Late - CNRG Urges Govt to Immediately Ban Export of Lithium Concentrates
[New Zimbabwe] The Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG) has implored the government to take immediate action and ban the exportation of lithium concentrate, rather than waiting until 2027 to implement the proposed policy.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: Third Zimbabwean Dies After Xenophobic Attacks in Addo
[New Zimbabwe] Apology Mandiudza, a 24-year-old man from Zimbabwe, died in hospital last Tuesday, nine days after he was attacked by a mob in Valencia, Addo.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Africa: UNOC3 - a Cry for Global Action to Save Small-Scale Fisheries
[IPS] Nice, France -- Just before dawn, the worn wooden dhows begin gliding toward the shore at Magogoni fish market in Tanzania's port city of Dar es Salaam. Their tattered sails flutter against the orange sky. Exhausted fishers step out onto the muddy sand, hauling frayed nets and plastic crates, their sun-creased faces tight with fatigue.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:South Sudan: Conflict, Displacement and Disease Drive Food Insecurity and Malnutrition to Alarming Level in Parts of South Sudan
[WFP] Juba, South Sudan -- The population in two counties in South Sudan are at-risk of famine in the coming months, as conflict in Upper Nile state escalates, destroying homes, disrupting livelihoods, and impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid. The latest update by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) shows a deterioration in food and nutrition conditions in areas of South Sudan hit by fighting...
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:What will the expanded Club World Cup mean for Africa?
As four African sides prepare for the Club World Cup, BBC Sport Africa looks at what impact the expanded 32-team tournament could have on the continent.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Africa: Number of People Uprooted by War at Shocking, Decade-High Levels - UNHCR
[UNHCR] The number of people displaced by war, violence and persecution worldwide is untenably high, particularly as humanitarian funding evaporates, with the only bright spot being a pickup in returns, notably to Syria, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Kenya: Kenya Receives Over 6 Million Doses of TB and Polio Vaccines
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale on Thursday flagged off a major consignment of life-saving vaccines, signalling renewed momentum in Kenya's child immunisation programme.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: MPs Call for Pit Bull Terrier Ban in Zimbabwe, Say Dog Breed Has Become Dangerous to Citizens
[New Zimbabwe] DISTURBED by the deadly Pit Bull Terrier dogs' vicious and fatal attack of a Harare resident recently, legislators want the breed banned in Zimbabwe.
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Africa: Unlocking Africa's Future - The Imperative of Domestic Resource Mobilization
[allAfrica] A decade after the adoption of the 2030 agenda, a measly 17% of the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are on track. If we were in a classroom, the international community would fall into the category of "ungraded." This is devastating, but unsurprising: a huge financing gap stands in the way of achieving the Goals. In Africa, an additional $1.3 trillion in financing is needed every year to achieve the...
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:South Africa: Taxi Task Team to Meet After Shootings - South African News Briefs - June 12, 2025
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Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Starvation alert as children fill Kenya refugee ward after US aid cuts
A UN official warns that hundreds of thousands in the sprawling camp are "slowly starving".
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Zungula removed as ATM leader because of his βgrowing popularityβ, say party insiders
Sources said that despite Vuyo Zungula being a member of the African Transformation Movementβs national executive committee, he was at the meeting that resolved to remove him as party president
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:West Africa: "The Referendum Could be Used to Consolidate the Junta's Power Rather than Transition to Democracy"
[Civicus] CIVICUS discusses prospects for democracy in Guinea with Omolara Balogun, Head of Policy Influencing and Advocacy at the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), a civil society organisation that promotes civic space and youth and women's leadership and leverages technology for development.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Guinea: "The Referendum Could be Used to Consolidate the Junta's Power Rather than Transition to Democracy"
[Civicus] CIVICUS discusses prospects for democracy in Guinea with Omolara Balogun, Head of Policy Influencing and Advocacy at the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), a civil society organisation that promotes civic space and youth and women's leadership and leverages technology for development.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Tanzania: Tanzania: Back to the Authoritarian Routine
[Civicus] In May 2025, Tanzanian security forces stripped Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire naked, raped her and smeared her with excrement while they filmed her ordeal, seemingly to shame her into silence. Her crime: entering the country alongside fellow activist Boniface Mwangi from Kenya to attend the politically motivated trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu. Mwangi, arrested alongside her, was also subjected to...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Trivia-busting Rabada joins elite Lord's club of two
South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada joins an elite Lord's club to increase the number of members to two, thanks to a five-wicket haul in the World Test Championship final.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Kenyan blogger was hit and assaulted to death, autopsy reveals
Albert Ojwang did not die of self-inflicted injuries, pathologists say, contradicting the police.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:UK soldier accused of raping British woman in Kenya
The alleged rape is the latest allegation of misconduct made against soldiers at a controversial base in Kenya.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Africa: African Development Bank Launches Inaugural Dual Tranche Issuance Consisting of New USD 2 Billion 3.875 Percent 3-Year Global Benchmark, and New USD 1 Billion 4.5 Percent 10-Year Global Benchmark
[African Development Bank (AfDB)] On Tuesday 3rd June, the African Development Bank ("AfDB"), rated Aaa/AAA/AAA (Moody's/S&P/Fitch) successfully priced a dual tranche comprising a new USD 2 billion 3-year Global Benchmark and a new USD 1 billion 10-year Global Benchmark. This transaction represents the Bank's first ever dual tranche and its inaugural 10-year USD Global Benchmark.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Nearly 50 people killed in South Africa floods
At least 49 people have been killed in the floods, including several children who were on a bus.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Maimane: βWhether you and I accept it or not our relations with the US are crucialβ
The Build One South Africa leader said South Africa had neglected its relations with the US with the underlying mantra that to be anti-west is to be progressive
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: State Drops Charges Against Mpofu, Chimombe in U.S.$9 Million Streetlights Scandal
[New Zimbabwe] The state on Wednesday dropped charges against businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe who were accused of swindling the Harare City Council US$9 million in a botched streetlights tender.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Kenya: Construction of Rironi-Mau Summit Road in August
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The long-overdue construction of the Rironi-Mau Summit Road will begin in August, President William Ruto has announced.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Congo-Kinshasa: Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC Is a Persistent Emergency
[MSF] Goma -- For years, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have repeatedly warned of the alarming level of sexual violence in eastern DRC. The number of victims and survivors treated by MSF has surged in the past three years, since fighting between the Congolese army, the M23/AFC (Alliance Fleuve Congo) armed group, and their respective allies, resumed. The crisis is particularly acute in North Kivu province, where...
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source:Kenya: DCI On Trail of Corruption Allegations At Kenya Rugby Union
[Capital FM] NAIROBI -- Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) chairperson Harriet Okach has revealed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have begun to look into allegations of financial misappropriation in the body.
Published on: June 11, 2025 | Source: