Category: Africa

Deadly Road Crash Kills 6 in Egypt, Including Palestinians

CAIRO—At least six people were killed Thursday when a pickup truck and a minibus collided near Egypt’s eastern city of Ismailia, health officials said. Three others were injured in the crash. Among the dead were five Palestinians, between 20 and 50 years of age, and one Egyptian, the local ambulance service said in a statement….


At Least 32 Civilians Killed in Eastern Congo, Says the UN

DAKAR, Senegal—At least 32 civilians have been killed by rebel groups in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, said a spokesman for the United Nations. Twenty people were killed by the militia group CODECO and a dozen were killed by the Allied Democratic Forces, which is allied to the ISIS terrorist group, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said…


Bus in Northern South Africa Crashes With Van; 20 Dead

JOHANNESBURG—A crash between a passenger bus and a van armored to carry cash in the northern province of Limpopo, South Africa, has killed at least 20 people and injured 68, officials have reported. The two vehicles collided head-on along the N1 freeway in the Makhado area on Monday evening, according to paramedics who responded to…


WHO Convenes ‘Urgent’ Meeting Over Marburg, One of World’s Deadliest Viruses

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday convened an “urgent meeting” amid an outbreak of the Marburg virus, which causes one of the world’s deadliest diseases, in Africa. Health officials say Marburg, first seen in the late 1960s, is related to Ebola. However, WHO officials say it’s far more deadly, killing upwards of 88 percent of…


Maersk Sues Evergreen Over 2021 Blocking of Suez Canal

CAIRO—The world’s biggest shipping company said Monday it sued a rival shipping line in a Danish court, seeking compensation for ship delays that resulted from the blocking of the Suez Canal by a hulking vessel two years ago. The Panama-flagged vessel Ever Given, operated by Evergreen Marine Corp., ran aground in March 2021, blocking the…


Australia’s Ambitious Foreign Policy Agenda Looks to Engage More With Africa

Australia is seeking to engage more with Africa, with the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Tim Watts telling African-Australian community leaders that the current Labor government has set an agenda to develop more ties with African countries. Speaking at the Dr Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe Memorial Lecture at La Trobe University in Melbourne on Feb. 11, Watts said…


Australia’s Ambitious Foreign Policy Agenda Looks to Push Engagement With Africa

Australia is seeking to engage more with Africa, with the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Tim Watts telling African-Australian community leaders that the current Labor government has set an agenda to develop more ties with African countries. Speaking at the Dr Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe Memorial Lecture at La Trobe University in Melbourne on Feb. 11, Watts said…


Detecting Danger: Africa’s Giant Rats

Miss Marple has a remarkable nose for danger. She is a rat, and she detects landmines by smelling them. She was born in the training lab of the Belgian company Apopo in Tanzania. Here, African giant rats—the size of a cat—are taught to sniff out explosives hidden in the ground. After a year’s training, she…


2 Aid Group Employees Killed in Burkina Faso Vehicle Attack

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying a medical team in Burkina Faso on Wednesday, killing two employees of Doctors Without Borders, the organization said. Two others managed to escape. The aid organization, also known by its French acronym MSF, said the violence took place on the road between Dedougou and Tougan in the…


Niger Says at Least 10 Soldiers Killed in Insurgent Ambush

NIAMEY—At least 10 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush, and more than a dozen others were injured by armed assailants near the West African Sahel nation’s border with neighboring Mali, Niger’s defense minister said in a statement on Saturday. Around 16 people are missing following the attack on Friday evening in Banibangou near Mali,…