ADDIS ABABA – Three people have died from the Marburg virus in Ethiopia, the Ministry of Health said yesterday, less than a week after an outbreak was declared. The Marburg virus is one of the deadliest known pathogens. Like Ebola, it causes severe bleeding, fever, vomiting, and diarrhoea and has a 21-day incubation period.Also like...
VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV decried poverty on Sunday, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalised people, as the Church celebrated a “Jubilee of the Poor.” The US pope has made social justice a key theme of his papacy, now in its sixth month since being made head of the world’s...
JOHANNESBURG – A daughter of former South Africa president Jacob Zuma pleaded not guilty at the start of her trial Monday to charges of inciting 2021 riots that left more than 350 people dead. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla (43) is accused of inciting terrorism and public violence via social media after her father was sent to prison...
KANO, NIGERIA – Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia and jihadist sources told AFP on Monday. Fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group broke out in Dogon Chiku on the shores...
NAIROBI – Tanzanian politicians are in shock over the massacre of hundreds of young protesters during the recent election, insiders told AFP. However, they are too afraid to speak out, as a tiny cabal of hardliners around the president takes control. Gruesome images of dead Tanzanians have flooded the internet in the wake of the...
Any nuclear weapons testing anywhere in the world would be detrimental to the world’s peace and security and would be make the reduction of atomic bombs more difficult. This is the message from Robert Floyd, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), the organisation responsible for implementing the treaty (CTBT) to ban all...
KANO – Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia and jihadist, sources told AFP yesterday. Fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group broke out in Dogon Chiku on the shores of Lake...
MAGDEBURG – A Saudi doctor went on trial in Germany yesterday, accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas market, killing six people and wounding more than 300 in a rampage that shocked the nation. Taleb Jawad al – Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old psychiatrist, was arrested next to the battered vehicle after the attack on 20...
AKSU – Aksu has earned a reputation for producing sweet, juicy, large and fragrant apples; however, little is known that this land of orchards was once a desert. Aksu is in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A recent trip to Aksu provided New Era’s Edward Mumbuu and over 20 other African journalists and editors an...
SYDNEY – Australian households will be able to access three hours a day of free solar power under an energy-saving programme that the government unveiled yesterday and will begin next year. “We want to see the benefits of renewable energy flow to all,” Energy Minister Chris Bowen told national broadcaster ABC. In a statement, he...