Black celebrities show support for LGBTQ community in Ghana after raid on center ->
Black celebrities are urging Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo to work with LGBTQ community leaders after security forces raided and shut down an LGBTQ center in the West African country's capital last week.
Ethiopia rejects US calls to pull troops from Tigray after CNN investigation into massacre ->
Ethiopia on Monday rejected a call from the United States to pull regional forces out of the country's Tigray region, and defended the deployment of some of those troops amid reports of human rights violations.
42 people including students abducted last week in Nigeria released ->
At least 42 people, including students, who were kidnapped last week in an armed raid at a state-run school in Kagara in Niger state, northwest Nigeria, have been released, the vice-principal of the school, Mallam Saidu, told CNN Saturday.
The rising e-waste crisis is being reckoned with in Rwanda, one gadget at a time ->
Amidst a global trend of tech purchases in 2020 due to the pandemic, Africa continues to grapple with the issue of imported electronic waste. In Rwanda, a focus on sustainability at Enviroserve, the country's first e-waste recycling plant, is beginning to pay off.
South Africans get their tongues round Gqeberha, the new name for Port Elizabeth ->
South Africa's city of Port Elizabeth has been officially renamed to Gqeberha -- derived from the Xhosa language -- the native tongue of late political hero Nelson Mandela.
Founder of LGBTQI center shut down in Ghana says he fears for his safety ->
A recently-opened center for the LGBTQI+ community in Ghana, has been shut down after it was raided by security forces in the West African country Wednesday.
Italian ambassador died in gun battle in DRC, not execution, prosecutor says ->
The two Italians killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday died in a gun battle, and were not killed execution-style, prosecutor Alberto Pioletti told CNN Thursday.
Gunmen kill 36 in attacks on two northern Nigerian states ->
Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa's most populous nation, officials and residents said.
Ghana becomes first country to receive Covid-19 vaccine through COVAX program ->
Ghana has become the first country to receive Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX program on Wednesday, a joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and WHO Ghana said.
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