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Dzaleka camp : Malawi inventories precarious housing, refugees skeptical

Dzaleka camp : Malawi inventories precarious housing, refugees skeptical

SOS Médias Burundi | Dzaleka, July 3, 2025 – A census of houses in poor condition began on Tuesday at the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. The initiative, jointly led by the UNHCR and the Malawian government, aims to rehabilitate dilapidated...

Analysts commend Tanzania for rise in global peace index ranking

DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA has been praised by analysts for emerging as the most peaceful country in the East African Community (EAC), according to the newly released Global Peace Index (GPI) 2025 report. However, they also believe the country...

Czech musician set to perform in Ohio detained, sent back to Prague

Czech musician set to perform in Ohio detained, sent back to Prague

Jaroslav Skuta said he was detained for several hours before being denied entry into the U.S. Skuta, 35, attended Kent State University on a scholarship in 2019. Skuta has returned to northern Ohio several times to perform. A Czech clarinetist...

Le changement climatique a doublé le nombre de vagues de chaleur dans le monde : quel impact en Afrique ?

Le changement climatique a doublé le nombre de vagues de chaleur dans le monde : quel impact en Afrique ?

Une étude mondiale sur les chaleurs extrêmes a révélé qu'entre mai 2024 et mai 2025, près de la moitié de la population mondiale (49 %, soit 4 milliards de personnes) a subi 30 jours supplémentaires de fortes chaleurs. Ces journées ont été plus...

From Dar to Stockholm Kiswahili feels global

DAR ES SALAAM: BACK home in Dar es Salaam, the sun played its part with a warm and breezy weekend, while in Stockholm (in this late spring) tulips were still showing off and Swedes debated if the sun was ever going to return, something...

Donald Trump humiliated as Africa says, ‘keep your America, we’ll keep our continent’

Donald Trump humiliated as Africa says, ‘keep your America, we’ll keep our continent’

Donald Trump's sweeping travel ban on countries in Africa has been dismissed with a critic telling the US President he can keep America and Africans will keep their continent. Mr Trump's ban applies to citizens from countries around the world,...

How Global Fund is Saving Lives from Malaria, TB, & HIV across Africa

How Global Fund is Saving Lives from Malaria, TB, & HIV across Africa

Africa, Development & Aid, Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: UNOCHA/Giles Clarke NEW YORK, Jul 7 2025 (IPS) - In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a...

Ethiopia announces GERD project completion

Ethiopia announces GERD project completion

(MENAFN) Ethiopia has declared that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a massive hydropower project on the Blue Nile, has been completed after years of construction and disputes involving Egypt and Sudan, as stated by reports. The Prime...

Kenya’s Samman Vohra racks up maiden international win in Rwanda as Nikhil wins ARC3

Kenya’s Samman Vohra racks up maiden international win in Rwanda as Nikhil wins ARC3

Samman Vohra chalked-up his maiden international win in the 2025 edition of the FIA African Rally Championship (ARC) Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally which culminated in Eastern Province district of Bugesera. Navigated by Briton Drew Sturrock behind...

Reflexions on the African Commission’s Resolution 627 on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Reflexions on the African Commission’s Resolution 627 on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Introduction This article offers a critical analysis of the uniqueness, legal significance, and silences in Resolution 627 on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) adopted by the African Commission on Human and...

Gift of the Givers mobilises aid for flood-affected residents in Cape Metro

Gift of the Givers mobilises aid for flood-affected residents in Cape Metro

Gift of the Givers said they are being swamped with calls from communities across the Cape Metro area due to severe flooding caused by a cold front, affecting thousands. The Western Cape Disaster Management Centre on Sunday said that they remain...

Severe flooding prompts urgent response from Gift of the Givers

Severe flooding prompts urgent response from Gift of the Givers

Gift of the Givers (GoTG) teams extended their humanitarian aid distribution to over 20 000 flood victims in the Cape Metropole on Sunday. The organisation said they were receiving calls from communities across the Cape Metro area due to the heavy...

Oil Giant Adds Fuel to Soft Power Push

Oil Giant Adds Fuel to Soft Power Push

Mandated from on-high by the Chinese Communist Party leadership, China’s new strategy to super-charge its international communication at the local level is certainly not a process of decentralization. It is a policy effort, however, that has...

Liberia: As Five African Heads of State Prepare for High-stakes White House talks, President Trump Pushes Trade over Aid in Renewed African policy framework

Liberia: As Five African Heads of State Prepare for High-stakes White House talks, President Trump Pushes Trade over Aid in Renewed African policy framework

Washington, D.C. – President Donald Trump is set to host the heads of state from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the White House next week for a luncheon aimed at strengthening commercial and security ties between the...

Opinion: Tanzania’s railway is laying the tracks for a New East Africa

Opinion: Tanzania’s railway is laying the tracks for a New East Africa

Tanzania’s new electric railway is more than a national upgrade. It is a bold step toward regional transformation. As the country rolls out its Standard Gauge Railway linking Dar es Salaam to Dodoma, with future links to Burundi, Rwanda, and the...

Bujumbura – Gasarara : six people killed in a witch hunt led by Imbonerakure

Bujumbura – Gasarara : six people killed in a witch hunt led by Imbonerakure

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, July 2, 2025 – Six people, all members of the ruling CNDD-FDD party, were killed on Monday, June 30, 2025, in Gasarara village, in Nyabiraba district, Bujumbura province (western Burundi). They were accused of...

Africa Rail Infrastructure Powers Mineral Trade Growth

Africa Rail Infrastructure Powers Mineral Trade Growth

Africa rail Infrastructure is getting a new lease of life. Important transportation lines are swiftly increasing to make the continent’s natural resources more accessible and improve trade linkages across the globe. The Italian development bank...

Tanzania to host Pan-African social security summit

DAR ES SALAAM, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania is set to host a high-level Pan-African summit focusing on the future of social security on the continent, a senior official announced Sunday. The summit, to be held on July 10 in the northern city of...

Sudan: One Of The Best Ten Worldwide,Second In Africa

Sudan: One Of The Best Ten Worldwide,Second In Africa

(MENAFN- Sudanow Magazine) By: Rogia al-Shafee Thanks to the huge efforts exerted by a talented and experienced Sudan news agency journalist, Sudan ranking has gone up to forefront within the media sports writing in the AIPS competition. It was a...

From Awareness to Action: Informaction Theory of Change and ...

From Awareness to Action: Informaction Theory of Change and ...

The theme "From Awareness to Action: Strengthening Open Societies through Scientific Literacy" speaks to the Advocacy for Alleged Witches' theory of change, that is Informaction Theory of Change. This theory codifies an attempt to provide the...

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