The United States and Ivory Coast have signed a new health agreement that sets out a multi-year funding commitment totalling $480 million. The pact is framed as a partnership with specific targets, reporting expectations, and a push toward measurable outcomes. Officials involved described the agreement as a practical reset in how health assistance is structured. […]
Nairobi: Across Africa, design desks keep getting the same request: remove background in Photoshop, then deliver a cut-out for posters, catalogues, and social tiles. Retail teams push product images daily. Newsrooms need thumbnails quickly. Community campaigns need a subject that stands out. It sounds simple, still edges expose every mistake. A transparent background PNG is […]
Veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O Kanayo has reacted to comments alleging that he is a ritualist. Kanayo said that contrary to the allegation, he only interprets roles in movies. He made the remark while responding to questions in an Instagram live chat with his fans. Some Nigerians consider Kanayo O. Kanayo to be a ritualist […]
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologized to his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari following the illegal building demolition on the premises of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra, according to a statement. The two West African leaders spoke by telephone, according to Nigerian presidential spokesman Garba Shehu. Akufo-Addo assured Buhari that a full investigation would be […]
Democratic Republic of Congo police fired tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday to repel hundreds of protesters whose rally against a proposed new law threatened to spill into the parliament compound in the capital Kinshasa. Opponents say the reform, which would place prosecutors under the government’s authority rather than the courts, undermines the independence […]
Congolese Health Minister Eteni Longondo on Thursday officially proclaimed the end of the Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the second most serious since the discovery of the virus in 1976. Declared on 1 August 2018, this tenth epidemic of haemorrhagic fever on Congolese soil has killed 2,277 people, said the Minister of […]
Since the arrival of COVID-19 on the continent on February 14 in Egypt, there has been multi-layered concerns by experts and governments from fears of health systems being overwhelmed to the continent being muscled out of critical virus supplies. Hydra-headed ‘doom’ predictions But also in the midst of all the concerns were projections of an […]
Siya sources have indicated that Kaizer Chiefs have approached Bidvest Wits for the services of one of their midfielders. Chiefs are currently banned from signing players for the upcoming two transfer windows, though are set to appeal the ban before the Court of Arbitration for Sport on September 8-9. However, in the meantime, Amakhosi are […]
Kenya has attracted Venture Capital deals worth Sh74.3 billion in the past five years, second highest in Africa after South Africa, the latest continental private equity report shows. The inaugural report on venture capital, entitled Venture Capital in Africa: ‘Mapping Africa’s Start-up Investment Landscape’ released by African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) yesterday […]
Government has roped in other stakeholders such as churches and traditional leaders to sit on the Covid-19 taskforce as part of deliberate efforts to disseminate information about the pandemic to all Zimbabweans, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Cde Monica Mutsvangwa has said. She said this yesterday in the National Assembly during a Question and […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he probably would send some U.S. troops from Germany to Poland during his joint press conference with visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda. Duda, the first foreign leader to visit the United States since the coronavirus outbreak, said at the conference that there is a possibility of a further […]
Kenya Revenue Authority plans to enhance debt recovery to help it meet its revenue collection targets. KRA’s Commissioner for Domestic Taxes, Elizabeth Meyo has asked the staff to focus on pending bills, non-compliant suppliers/withholding agents/importers, and dispute resolution mechanisms to meet the targets. Meyo said that the authority collected Sh 24.73 billion in June this […]
Popular singer, Vanessa Mdee, has made clarifications on her exit from the music industry. Some days ago, Mdee through her podcast announced that she had quit the music industry, describing the industry as demonic. In a 29-minute-long podcast dubbed ‘Deep dive with Vanessa Mdee’, the singer pointed out that despite making the announcement, she would […]
An Algerian criminal court sentenced a former prime minister and energy minister to prison on corruption charges, in the latest crackdown on former officials in an OPEC nation struggling to allay youth discontent with the former regime. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia was sentenced to 12 years while ex-Energy Minister Youcef Yousf was sentenced to […]
South Africa’s public enterprises ministry on Wednesday urged creditors to back a rescue plan for cash-strapped South African Airways (SAA). Creditors are due to vote on the restructuring plan on Thursday, but one of the creditors – private airline Airlink – is in court on Wednesday trying to prevent the vote from happening. The plan […]
Malawi’s electoral commission appealed for “peace and calm” on Wednesday as it counted ballots following a historic poll to re-elect a president after Peter Mutharika’s victory was overturned. Voters in Malawi went to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in just over a year after the Constitutional Court dramatically ruled that last year’s […]
The Gambia said on Tuesday that it would neither decriminalise homosexuality nor review its laws, following weeks of controversy over the issue in the tiny West African state. In a statement, the government denied widely circulated rumours of plans to soften homosexuality laws in exchange for aid funds. “This is false political propaganda orchestrated to […]
Lawmakers in Gabon’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a law that punishes sexual relations between people of the same sex. Forty-eight members of parliament backed the proposed initiative by the government to revise an article of the 2019 law […]
GladAfrica Championship outfit TS Galaxy have announced that three of their players have tested positive for Covid-19. After Kaizer Chiefs confirmed two positive results on Tuesday, Galaxy have become the latest club to be affected by the virus. The club are yet to name the three players but have confirmed they are asymptomatic and are […]
South Africa announced Tuesday that it will begin its first clinical trial this week for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus. Participants from across Africa will be vaccinated in the South African-led trial, researchers said during a virtual news conference hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. The South African Ox1Cov-19 Vaccine […]