Cairo Holds Suez Container for Ransom
Egypt has seized the container ship that last month blocked the Suez Canal, the vessel’s owner said Tuesday, amid a dispute over how much compensation the country is owed following the weeklong shutdown of the waterway. The move turns up pressure on Ever Given’s Japanese owner to negotiate a settlement that Egyptian authorities are claiming […]
Burkinabe Former President Charged with the Murder of his Friend and the Country’s Liberator
The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia for the murder of Thomas Sankara, one of Africa’s most revered post-independence leaders who was killed in a 1987 coup. Sankara, a Marxist, pan-African leader, was murdered after four years in power and succeeded by his former friend Compaoré, who […]
South Africa’s Vaccine Rollout On Ice after J&J Finding
South Africa has suspended giving Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots as a “precautionary measure” whilst the company delayed its European vaccine rollout following the FDA decision to pause using the jabs while blood clot cases are examined. South Africa has given more than 289,000 jabs of the J&J vaccine to the country’s health workers without […]
