Ekeomah Atuonwu Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Wednesday that 11 newborn babies died in a fire at a regional hospital in Tivaouane, about 120 kilometers (74.56 miles) east of Dakar. “I have just learned with pain and consternation the death of 11 newborn babies in the fire that occurred in the neonatology department of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in Tivaouane,” Sall said in a […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The bodies of four of the eight missing miners have been discovered at a zinc mine in Burkina Faso that flooded more than two months ago, according to the government. The Perkoa mine, which is owned by the Canadian firm Trevali Mining Corp and is located about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of the capital, Ouagadougou, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The World Health Organization (WHO) Member States re-elected Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to a second five-year term as Director-General of the world’s leading public health agency on Tuesday. The election was the culmination of a process that began in April 2021, when Member States were invited to submit proposals for candidates for the position of Director-General. Dr […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Contrary to reports of a looming food crisis, the African Development Bank (AfDB) believes that Africa will not face a food crisis. Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the AfDB Group, made the assurance during a press conference ahead of the Bank’s 2022 Annual Meetings in Accra, Ghana. Adesina stated that the Bank was prepared with plans to avert […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is hosting its second annual Africa Day campaign to highlight Africans who are making a global impact. South African filmmaker Tarryn Crossman said Meta identified eight African innovators, creators, and business people whose stories the company wanted told for the “Made in Africa, Loved Around the World” campaign. Tia […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Mankon community in Cameroon is mourning the death of their paramount ruler, Fon Angwafor III Solomon, who died at the age of 97. He was an influential political figure who was one of the architects of the 1972 reunification of English-speaking Southern Cameroons and francophone La République du Cameroun. He was fondly […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Police in Nigeria say they are looking for gunmen who killed at least 12 people in the south-eastern state of Anambra, including a pregnant woman and her four children. The police have blamed the region’s rising violence on Biafra separatists. According to a community leader, the pregnant woman and her children were returning […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu African presidents are expected to join the world’s political and business elite in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which begins today and runs through May 26. The 2022 meeting will be the first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The meeting, themed History at a Turning Point: Government […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu An 18-year-old technical senior high school student in Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana, has made a car that uses fuel. The teenager decided to name the car ‘Never Give Up’ because of the challenges he faced while making it but persevered. A video published on YouTube by a local outlet shows him recounting how he made […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Senegalese President Macky Sall said he would visit Moscow and Kyiv in the coming weeks as chairman of the African Union, which he said hopes will bring de-escalation and peace in Ukraine through dialogue between the two sides. Speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Sall said: “We do not want to be aligned on […]
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