Author: Osas Monday

17 Oct Download logoTurkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) provided technical equipment and consumable materials to Chad, where the mortality rate for malaria is high. The equipment and materials were presented at a ceremony held at N’Djamena Municipality. Türkiye’s Ambassador to Chad, Kemal Kaygısız, the Mayor of N’Djamene, Ali Harun and TİKA’s Coordinator in N’Djamena, Vedat Baş… 18 Oct Ahead of this year’s harmattan season and attendant disruption often experienced in local air travel, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has commenced a general overhaul of navigational facilities at airports nationwide. 18 Oct Nomadic herder Fatime Tchari fended off a…

A wave of attacks on villages in eastern DR Congo attributed to Islamic State-affiliated ADF rebels killed at least 15 people Sunday, local officials said. These latest killings come a week after a similar attack left more than 20 dead. “There were simultaneous attacks this Sunday between 4:00 and 5:00 am on three villages…,” said local official Dieudonne Malangai. “In Manyala village we found seven bodies… at Ofay, there were eight dead, including seven women,” Malangai told AFP, and indicated that the final toll might be higher. A humanitarian source confirmed seven fatalities in Manyala and “at least eight” in…

In an abandoned print works in a scruffy but bohemian Lagos neighbourhood, an improvised cinema has opened, gigantic black drapes blocking out the light. Dozens of young people crowd round the screen on plastic chairs, ready to discover the new wave of Nigerian cinema. The second edition of the S16 film festival, which took place late last year, brought together Nigerian filmmakers looking to do things differently. They are determined to break away from Nollywood, the powerful and influential film industry that has inundated Africa’s market with blockbusters that generate millions of dollars. Nollywood is driven by two things —…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said for the first time Sunday that Ankara could accept Finland into NATO without its Nordic neighbour Sweden. Erdogan’s comments during a televised meeting with younger voters came days after Ankara suspended NATO accession talks with the two countries. Turkey and Hungary remain the only members of the 30-nation Western defence alliance to have failed to ratify the membership bids by Sweden and Finland. The Hungarian parliament is expected to approve both bids in February. But Erdogan has dug in his heels heading into a tightly contested May 14 presidential election in which he is…