Post-election Violence Leaves 14 People Dead in Central African Town – Group

AfricaNewsPoliticsPost-election Violence Leaves 14 People Dead in Central African Town – Group

PilotnewsFebruary 25, 2021

Fourteen people were brutally murdered on Feb. 16 in an apparent attack on a religious site in a Central African Republic town, a human rights group said on Thursday. “Testimonies, satellite imagery and photographic analysis confirm the killing of 14 people last week in a religious site in Bambari,” Amnesty International said in a  statement. Violence escalated ahead of the Dec. 27 elections after a coalition of six militant groups, which control two-thirds of the...

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Ethiopian Refugees Suffer Appalling Conditions in Sudan, MSF Says

AfricaNational SecurityNewsEthiopian Refugees Suffer Appalling Conditions in Sudan, MSF Says

PilotnewsFebruary 19, 2021

CAPE TOWN —  More than 61,000 people have fled Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region and lived under appalling conditions in neighbouring Sudan, medical aid organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Friday. Up to 12,000 refugees were currently scattered in and around the Hamdayet transit camp near the border without proper shelter and access to water, food, blankets, and sanitation, the group said. Some had been in Hamdayet for months, with new people arriving every day,...

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AU Voices Concern Over Double Burden on Health Systems in Africa

AfricaCoronavirusNewsAU Voices Concern Over Double Burden on Health Systems in Africa

PilotnewsFebruary 11, 2021

Addis Ababa — The African Union (AU) Commission on Wednesday emphasised a double burden on health systems across Africa due to a new Ebola outbreak and the still-raging Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The AU Commission, through the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has started discussions with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on how to support its response to the 12th Ebola outbreak declared by the DRC on Sunday in Butembo Area of...

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COVID-19: African Finance Ministers Call for Additional $500bn

AfricaCoronavirusEconomyCOVID-19: African Finance Ministers Call for Additional $500bn

PilotnewsFebruary 9, 2021

ABUJA —  African finance ministers have called for 500 billion U.S. dollars in Special Drawing Right (SDR) and an extension in the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call was made during a virtual meeting convened by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Feb. 6, according to a statement from ECA on Tuesday. According to an IMF Factsheet, the SDR is an international...

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2021 MTV Africa Music Awards postponed–Organisers

AfricaEntertainmentMusic2021 MTV Africa Music Awards postponed–Organisers

PilotnewsFebruary 5, 2021

ABUJA — The 2021 MTV Africa Music Awards ceremony which was scheduled to be held in the Ugandan capital Kampala has been postponed, organisers have announced. The awards ceremony, which was being organised through a partnership between MTV Base and Uganda’s Ministry of Tourism, was scheduled to take place on Feb. 20, with performances from leading African and international artists. MTV Base Africa postponing the award ceremony on Thursday night tweeted on its official Twitter...

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Seven Months After, Venezuelans Protest Alex Saab’s Detainment

AfricaWorld NewsSeven Months After, Venezuelans Protest Alex Saab’s Detainment

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 1, 2021

Venezuelans on Sunday protested the continued detention of Alex Saab, the country’s special envoy and ambassador to the African Union (AU) by the Cape Verde government, on the instruction of the United States. The protest, organized through a social media campaign, saw over 200,000 protesters holding placards with messages declaring solidarity for the embattled envoy. Some said the arrest and continuous detention of Mr. Saab is a politically motivated action being pushed by the United...

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Defending Champions Morocco See off Zambia to Reach CHAN Semi-Finals

AfricaSoccerSportsDefending Champions Morocco See off Zambia to Reach CHAN Semi-Finals

PilotnewsJanuary 31, 2021

DOUALA (Cameroon)  —  The Atlas Lions of Morocco are through to the semi-final stage of the 2020 African Nations Championship (CHAN) after a convincing 3-1 win against Zambian on Sunday. Morocco started on a high, finding the net within a minute at the Reunification Stadium in Douala, Cameroon. Soufiane Rahimi found space to slot the ball past Zambia’s goalkeeper Allan Chibwe. It was a case of poor defending by the Zambian backline, giving Rahimi space...

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Ethiopia Reports 771 New COVID-19 Cases

AfricaCoronavirusNewsEthiopia Reports 771 New COVID-19 Cases

PilotnewsJanuary 30, 2021

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia registered 771 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 136,365, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Friday. The death toll from COVID-19 in the country reached 2,087 as of Friday evening after two new deaths were reported, the ministry said. The ministry added that 127 more recoveries were logged during the past 24 hours, taking the national count to 121,987. Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most...

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OPINION: COVID-19 Death Rate Rising in Africa

AfricaCoronavirusOpinionOPINION: COVID-19 Death Rate Rising in Africa

PilotnewsJanuary 29, 2021

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced that the COVID-19 case fatality rate in Africa is now 2.5 percent, higher than the worldwide level of 2.2 percent. (According to Johns Hopkins University, in the United States the rate is 1.7 percent; in New Zealand, 1.1 percent.) In twenty-one countries on the continent the case fatality rate is 3 percent or higher. Africa CDC announced that there were 207,000 new cases the week of...

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AfDB Commits $12.5bn to Climate Finance

AfricaClimateEnvironmentAfDB Commits $12.5bn to Climate Finance

PilotnewsJanuary 25, 2021

ABUJA — The African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed an additional 12.5 billion dollars to climate finance between 2020 to 2025 in Africa. President of the AfDB, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said this at the first online international Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021 on Monday. The two-day summit, hosted by the Dutch government, aimed to adopt a roadmap for a decade of transformation toward a climate-resilient future by 2030. Adesina said that the amount would be ...

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