US Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, a spokesman said, the latest in a list of figures connected to Donald Trump’s administration to do so. Marc Short began quarantine and was assisting in the contract tracing process, Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement. “Vice President Pence […]

Ethiopia on Saturday accused Donald Trump of inciting “war” over a massive Nile River mega-dam after the US president spoke out against the project and suggested Egypt might destroy it. Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew summoned US ambassador Michael Raynor to clarify Trump’s comments, which mark the US president’s latest foray into a delicate, long-running dispute […]

At least eight children were killed Saturday and a dozen wounded in an attack on a school in Kumba, southwestern Cameroon, the United Nations said. An initial report by a local official had given a death toll of four students. The eight children were shot or hacked to death with machetes, a statement issued by […]

Zimbabwe has launched a second stock exchange to trade solely in foreign currency, state media reported Saturday, in a move aimed at luring external investors as the country grapples with a forex crunch. Known as the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange, the new market is a subsidiary of the Harare-based Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and will […]

Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara said he is in favour of allowing his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo, currently on trial in The Hague, to return after a presidential election next week. “Laurent Gbagbo will return, there’s no problem,” Ouattara, who is standing for a controversial third term as president in the vote on October 31, told […]