Top European clubs clash again with national teams in this years Cup of Nations over players
The Cup of Nations, which kicks off in Abidjan on Saturday, is being held mid-season and Fifa rules mean clubs must give up their players for the continental championship even if they then miss crucial domestic games over the next weeks.
Kenyan shilling’s haemorrhage against US dollar runs on as Ghana, Zambia’s come under pressure
Ghana’s cedi is expected to come under pressure due to increased demand from the manufacturing and energy sectors amid low dollar supplies, traders said.
Spike in violence rattles Ecuador as nightclub arson kills two, false bomb sparks evacuation
Ecuadoreans worry that violence will only escalate in a country where a presidential candidate was assassinated last year.
‘Visa by another name’, travellers to Kenya tetchy over $30 Electronic Traveller Authorisation fee
The government said the new system was in line with the country’s “security and other strategic interests” and was intended to “boost tourism and attract more foreign investment to Kenya.”
Medics warn of huge Covid surge currently as daily infections in America rise to two million
Seemingly everyone has come down with at least one bout of illness this winter: sniffles that theoretically pass as “just some bug” if you don’t test for Covid. But there’s a solid chance, with or without a test, that those sniffles were Covid after all. We’re in the midst of...
WHO says virulent variant of Covid killed 10,000 people in 50 countries fuelled by December holidays
While bouts of coughs, sniffling, fever and fatigue in the winter are nothing new, Van Kerkhove said this year in particular, “we are seeing co-circulation of many different types of pathogens.”
UN helicopter carrying ‘several’ foreigners captured by al Shabaab in Somalia
Two UN sources familiar with the matter said the aircraft carried nine passengers. The identities or nationalities of the foreigners captured could not be independently verified.
Finland to extend Russia border closing after 900 asylum seekers entered the Nordic country
Some 900 asylum seekers from nations such as Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen entered Finland from Russia in November, an increase from less than one per day previously.
German software firm fined $222m for bribery schemes in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Ghana
The Walldorf, Germany-based company said it “separated from all responsible parties” more than five years ago, and that the accords end all compliance-related investigations in the United States and South Africa.
US consumers group sues Starbucks over human rights abuses on tea and coffee farms in Kenya, Brazil
US National Consumers League said in its lawsuit Starbucks has continued using suppliers after abuses were uncovered, and even certified them as ethical according to purported standards it developed itself.
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