Nigeria primary school children abducted in Kaduna state
Gunmen have abducted students and teachers from a primary school in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, an official and eyewitnesses have said. This is the first time a primary school has been raided by gangs suspected to be carrying out abductions for ransom. Since December about 800 secondary school students have been seized. All of them […]
Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Hospitals ‘vandalised and looted’
Nearly 70% of health facilities in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern region of Tigray have been vandalised and equipment looted, a report by medical charity MSF has found. Only 13% of 106 facilities that teams from Médecins Sans Frontières visited were operating normally. The situation was having a “devastating” impact on the population, the organisation said in […]
Tear gas fired as Uganda police arrest Bobi Wine
Ugandan politician and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested in the capital, Kampala. He was leading a team of MPs from his party, the National Unity Platform, in a protest against arrests and disappearances of supporters in the period leading up to, during, and after the highly contested […]
Somalia receives first doses of Covid-19 vaccine
Somalia has received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine under the Covax scheme, the first batch the country has received. People at highest risk of contracting the virus will be the first to receive vaccines – including frontline workers, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions – the heath ministry says. The country […]
