Zimbabwe has announced it will partially reopen its tourism industry, one of the sectors worst affected by a three-month long lockdown. Restaurants were previously only allowed to serve takeaways. They will now be allowed to serve sitting customers but at only half of their licensed capacity. National parks and local…
Zimbabwe’s government has condemned the US’ decision to ban its diamonds from entering the country on the grounds that they had been produced through forced labour. The US’s claim was a “shameless lie”, and amounted to new sanctions against Zimbabwe’s diamond industry, Information Minister Nick Mangwana was quoted by the…
The latest stage of an emergency vaccination campaign has been launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo to combat a measles outbreak that has killed over 3,500 people this year. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Congolese government aim to vaccinate almost a million children across the country in…
The main water treatment plant in Zimbabwe’s capital – which shut down on Monday – is temporarily reopening. It is a move which will bring a degree of relief to the city’s residents at a time when there are also fears of water-borne diseases. Drought has had an impact but…
A Kenyan MP has called for the regulation of social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook to stop the spread of offensive content. Malulu Injendi, the MP for Malava in western Kenya, has sponsored a bill which will require administrators to obtain licences from the communications regulator before they…
A fire has broken out in a boarding school in a suburb outside the Liberian capital Monrovia, killing at least 23 children. The children were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque when the fire is believed to have broken out at in the early hours of the morning.…
The death toll in cyclone-hit northern Mozambique has risen to 38, officials say, as aid workers struggle to reach the worst-affected areas. Cyclone Kenneth struck the southern African nation last week with winds of 220km/h (140mph), flattening villages and damaging thousands more homes. The storm lost strength, but torrential…
The UN humanitarian agency, Ocha, says more than 1.8 million people in Mozambique have been affected by Cyclone Idai and some of them are in critical life threatening situations. Aid agencies are warning that thousands of survivors have yet to receive any help, 12 days after it made landfall…
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says government should act to curb “bogus pastors” but has ruled out regulating churches because it would cause a “backlash”. His remarks on the campaign trail in Cape Town are in response to self-styled prophet Alph Lukau’s recent claims to have resurrected a dead man. …