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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

East Africa

Illustrative: An Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, in Congo, on July 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
September 30, 2022, 6:15 pm
Health Ministry warns against travel to Ugandan regions amid Ebola outbreak
Israelis advised to avoid traveling to Uganda’s Mubende and nearby districts, where the outbreak, first reported on September 20, has led to six confirmed deaths so far
By ToI Staff
In this photo taken Monday, May 18, 2020, people use a hand-washing station installed for members of the public entering a market in Dodoma, Tanzania. (AP Photo)
May 22, 2020, 4:28 pm
Tanzania says virus defeated through prayer, but fears grow
Country has not reported a new case in three weeks, but critics have been arrested, top health officials fired and citizens discouraged from going to hospitals
By TOM ODULA
Margaret Oliele, former detained patient, poses for a portrait in her home in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
October 25, 2018, 7:47 pm
In hospitals all over the world, patients are held hostage for cash
Medical centers are illegally detaining patients after they’re discharged, using armed guards, locked doors, and even chains to hold those who haven’t paid up
By Maria Cheng
Ethiopian security forces intervene at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa on June 23, 2018, where a blast killed several people during a rally called by the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (AFP Photo/Yonas Tadese)
June 23, 2018, 11:52 am
Deadly blast at rally for Ethiopia’s new, reformist prime minister
Abiy Ahmed says several killed in ‘well-orchestrated attack’ as he waved to tens of thousands of supporters in capital
By ELIAS MESERET
From left to right: Eric Young; Ole Kasoi, first landowner to join the Nashulai Conservancy; and Nelson Ole Reiyia. (Courtesy)
January 30, 2018, 11:44 pm
Jewish Torontonian turned African tribal elder spearheads nature conservancy
After social innovation Prof. Eric Young’s adoption into the Maasai tribe, he quickly came to implement his traditional ‘tikun olam’ upbringing in a new homeland
By Robert Sarner
Gershom Sizomu, religious leader of the Abayudaya, in 2003. (Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
July 24, 2017, 10:35 am
Uganda’s Jews are down to one meal a day because of East Africa famine
The enduring hunger is devastating, but lacks the spectacle that spurred American Jewish communities to raise millions after disasters in Haiti and Nepal
By Ben Sales
People march during an annual religious festival in Bishoftu, a town southeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo)
October 4, 2016, 10:06 am
Israel issues travel warning for restive areas of Ethiopia
In second such advisory in weeks, Foreign Ministry urges nationals to stay away from Amhara and Oromia regions
By ToI Staff
People march during an annual religious festival in Bishoftu, a town southeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo)
October 3, 2016, 2:28 am
52 dead in stampede at Ethiopia religious event
Dozens crushed to death as police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an anti-government protest
By ELIAS MESERET
Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super are moving to Kenya this Rosh Hashannah. (Chabad.org via JTA)
September 13, 2016, 3:58 am
As Chabad grows in Africa, hardy rabbis encounter spirituality — and crime
Jewish communities are on the rise as thousands of Israelis arrive, thriving in the amiable-yet-pushy African setting
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super are moving to Kenya this Rosh Hashannah. (Chabad.org via JTA)
July 15, 2016, 6:38 am
Chabad opening its first center in East Africa
Rabbi Avromy Super will lead the 112-year-old Nairobi Hebrew Congregation, the Kenyan capital’s only synagogue
By JTA
Illustrative photo of Kenyan security forces. November 26, 2015. (AFP/John Muchucha)
June 30, 2016, 8:31 am
Worries grow as Islamic State seen making inroads into Kenya
Kenyan intelligence says some 100 men and women may have joined terror group in Libya, Syria, fears return of radicalized nationals
By Tristan McConnell
Rabbi Gershom Simozu shakes the lulav in front of the community sukkah at the Nabugoya Hill Synagogue in Uganda. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
February 25, 2016, 5:17 am
Ugandan rabbi said to make history with parliament win
Gershom Sizomu reportedly wins eight-way race, becoming first Jew to serve in African country’s legislature
By JTA
US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at the Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, July 23, 2015, for a 5-day trip to Kenya and Ethiopia. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
July 24, 2015, 6:42 am
Obama leaves US for Africa trip to Kenya, Ethiopia
First African-American president’s fourth trip to continent draws ire of rights groups, who urge him to speak out on democracy
By AFP
Rachel Dolezal (center), Spokane's NAACP president, meets with Joseph M. King, of King's Consulting (left), and Scott Finnie (right), director and senior professor of Eastern Washington University's Africana Education Program, before the start of a Black Lives Matter Teach-In on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, in Cheney, Washington, January 16, 2015. (Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review via AP, File)
June 13, 2015, 2:30 am
US black leader apparently isn’t
Family members say Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP Spokane chapter head, has falsely portrayed herself as African-American for years
By Nicholas K. Geranios
Kenyans light candles next to a white wooden cross for each of the victims of the Garissa attack, during a vigil at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, April 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
April 7, 2015, 10:24 pm
Kenyans angry over delayed reaction to college killings
Corruption, competition between army and police meant terrorists had hours to rampage in Garissa campus
By TOM ODULA and Christopher Torchia
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