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BEIJING — After a blessing by Buddhist monks, Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday rode the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links isolated, mountainous Laos with southern China in an effort to increase trade.Both gover…
Laos Opens Railway to China as Debt to Beijing Rises Read MoreMOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Somalia’s annual Mogadishu International Book Fair has resumed following the suspension of the event last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Restrictions were applied to the invitation-only event this year in order to prevent th…
Mogadishu Book Fair Resumes after COVID-19 Lockdown Postponement Read MoreCAIRO — A Sudanese pro-democracy group has condemned comments by the U.N. chief urging citizens to support a deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, so the country can have “a peaceful transition towards a true democracy.”The Sudanese Profe…
Sudan Group Condemns UN’s Call to Support Reinstated PM Read MoreBANJUL, GAMBIA — Election officials started counting marble votes Saturday in Gambia after the polls closed in the country’s first presidential election in decades that did not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh, a milestone seen as a test of democra…
Gambia Counts Marble Votes in First Post-Jammeh Election Read MoreGABORONE, BOTSWANA — World health experts are still searching the origins of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. But in Botswana, where the variant was first reported, officials say what matters is that it was discovered, not where it came from.Ami…
To Reveal or Not To Reveal Omicron Origins, Botswana’s Dilemma Read More