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Ghana has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a $3 billion bailout loan, the IMF announced Tuesday, as the country faces a severe economic crisis. Already burdened by high debt, Ghana is facing historic inflation of more than 40 percent and a collapse in the value of its currency – the cedi – economic difficulties exacerbated since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “I am pleased to announce that the IMF team has reached an agreement with the Ghanaian authorities on a three-year program (…) under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) in the amount (…) of about 3…

Zambian police have discovered the bodies of 27 suspected Ethiopian migrants “dead from hunger and exhaustion” in a northern district of the capital Lusaka. The victims are “all men aged between 20 and 38,” the police said in a statement on Sunday (November 11). The bodies were taken to the morgue for identification and autopsy. An investigation has been opened. The alert was given at dawn, around 04:00 GMT, by residents who discovered the bodies. Once on the spot, the police found a person still alive and “panting” among the bodies thrown along a road. She was rushed to the hospital.…

It has been proven that SGBV does not just threaten the lives and the future of the victims, it also hinders the development of the country as a whole. In the mining sector of Rwanda, a male-dominated sector, there have been numerous cases of discrimination and sexual harassment subjected women especially widows and single mothers. Undergraduates in desperate need of jobs have been put in positions where they have had to give sexual favours to mining managers with hopes of getting jobs in return. In the past, I have experienced sexual harassment in the mines but I was afraid to report it to anyone, I wanted…

African leaders are meeting this week in the United States of America for the annual US-Africa summit. The summit brings together several African leaders, organizations and top US government officials. The Biden’s three-day summit (13-15 Dec.) will feature announcements of new US investment and highlight food security — worsened by the invasion of Ukraine The summit will also focus on values such as democracy and good governance, as well as fighting climate change. One key topic will be the fate of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the 2000 deal that granted duty-free access to the US market for most…

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi denounced on Saturday “expansionist tendencies of Rwanda” which he again accused of supporting the M23 rebellion that has seized large swathes of territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent months. “The year 2022 has witnessed the resurgence of Rwanda’s expansionist impulses under the guise of M23,” the head of state said during his state of the nation address to the two houses of parliament meeting in congress. The DRC is the victim of an “unequivocal aggression by Rwanda”, he insisted. For nearly 30 years, the Congolese east has been plagued by…

The body of a Zambian student who died while fighting in Ukraine after he was recruited in a Russian jail arrived home in a makeshift coffin Sunday. AFP journalists saw a white, glass-panelled hearse adorned with small curtains affording a partial view of the container holding the body arrive on the tarmac at Lusaka airport, where grieving relatives gathered. On the coffin was a code written in black marker pen along with letters in the Cyrillic alphabet, betraying its provenance. Zambia demanded an urgent explanation from Moscow last month over the death of Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda in September while fighting…

Over 139 people arrested during a bloody protest in Chad in October have been released after a month and a half in detention. A total of 80 received one to two years of suspended sentences and the remaining 59 were acquitted after a mass trial of 401 people. Outlawed demonstrations were held on October 20th to mark the date when the military had initially promised to hand over power to civilians. “All of these people have been given a release order. From this moment they are free and can go home,” Rachid Mahamat Allamine, the second deputy prosecutor in N’Djamena,…

The ongoing political fiasco pitting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over corruption allegations had elicited mixed reactions among the locals in the country. Residents of the Nomzamo settlement in Soweto, outside Johannesburg, are optimistic about Ramaphosa’s presidency after a recent installation of electricity in the area. “Ramaphosa is a good man, because of what he said to us as this community of Nomzamo about electricity, yes now we have electricity, yes but it takes a long time to have electricity because of Eskom (ed: South African electricity public utility) but at last we have,” said Nomazibuko Mdizela, a part-time cook at…

At least nine people died and eight others were missing in South Africa after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, rescue officials said on Sunday. The dead and missing were all part of the congregation, which was conducting religious rituals along the river on Saturday, officials said. Rescue workers reported finding the bodies of two victims that day and another seven bodies when the search and recovery mission resumed on Sunday morning. The teams were interviewing people from the congregation to establish how many others were unaccounted for. Religious groups…

Long queues are still being experienced at major petrol stations in Sierra Leone as the west African country grapples with high gas prices and scarcity. The gas prices have nearly doubled compared to the previous year to 1.14 USD. “If I come to the gas station and there is no gas, I will go to the black market, the Jebu, where people sell it in bottles. They sell it in the black market for 30 Leones for one litter. 30 Leones for 1 litre at the black market,” said Modiboh Jebbo, a motorcycle taxi driver. “When we came, we were…