WINDHOEK, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Namibia on Friday inaugurated the first ever asparagus agro-processing factory in the country's northern region of Omusati.
It is the result of a memorandum of understanding that Namibia signed with the Spanish company Industrias Alimentarias de Navarra in 2017.
OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 28 (NNN-GNA) — Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire says that the country is open to more investors in its mining sector.
“We want the whole world to know that our country is a mining country and that investors are welcomed,” said the prime minister in an opening speech at the West African Week of Mining Activities.
“The mining sector is the most dynamic sector that creates employment in our country,” said Dabire.
27 September 2019; AFP: A group of 66 African refugees and asylum-seekers have arrived in Kigali from Libya, the UN said, the first in what could be thousands of people being helped to flee the conflict-torn country.
The move follows a pledge by President Paul Kagame in 2017 to offer a "home" to Africans after reports emerged of the torture, sexual violence and forced labour they suffer in Libya.
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday.
Most of the freed captives seen by a Reuters reporter in the city of Kaduna were children, aged up to their late teens. Some shuffled with their ankles manacled and others were chained by their legs to large metal wheels to prevent escape.
JUBA, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan on Thursday launched its first manual to offer psychosocial support services to help rehabilitate and reintegrate thousands of former child soldiers during the five years conflict.
Jean Lieby, Chief of Child Protection of UN Children Fund (UNICEF) , said the facilitator manual of psychosocial support activities and trainers guide will help them reach 150,000 out of 1 million former child soldiers including girls this year alone.
KINSHASA, Sept 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after a measles outbreak killed more than 3,500 people this year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Congolese government aim to carry out the emergency programme across the country in slightly more than a week.
The WHO says the epidemic is the world’s largest and fastest-moving.
It has killed more Congolese people this year than Ebola.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gabon will become the first African country paid with international funds to preserve its forests in an effort to fight climate change, the United Nations said.
Norway will provide Gabon, which is almost 90 percent covered by forest, with $150 million (136 million euros) to battle deforestation, according to the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), which the UN launched to bring together the region’s nations with Western donors.
KIGALI, Rwanda, Sept 25 (NNN-XINHUA) – Local Rwandan residents, discovered 100 corpses of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in the capital city Kigali, a local official said.
Residents have started retrieving the unidentified corpses in Nyarugenge district, a suburb of Kigali, since Friday, after getting information from a genocide survivor, who lived in the area during the 100-day tragedy, an executive secretary of Rwezamenyo Stella Mbabazi told Xinhua.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Seven children were killed and 64 injured when a classroom collapsed as students were starting their morning lessons at a school in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Monday, officials said.
Television stations showed images of rescue workers sifting through metal sheeting and slabs of concrete at the Precious Talent school, and carrying white body bags to an ambulance.
DURBAN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- South African police on Saturday gunned down nine suspected robbers in Isipingo, a town located 19 km south of Durban in the country's KwaZulu-Natal province.
The police first ambushed a gang of eight who were about to rob a business premise and crack safes.
"When they (suspects) saw the police officers they fired shots," said provincial police spokesperson Nqobile Gwala. "There was an exchange of gunfire. A total of seven suspects died at the scene and a 29-year-old suspect was arrested."
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