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 […]
How to shelter livestock is an issue that has been at the heart of discussions in Uganda. After more than 10 years of relative calm, poachers have returned to service in the Karamoja subregion, in northeastern Uganda. The poachers took advantage of the conflict in South Sudan and the anarchy in north-west Kenya to stock […]
A prominent Igbo-Nigerian artist and academic has called for the cancellation of a forthcoming auction in Paris of two sacred sculptures taken out of Nigeria during its devastating civil war in the late 1960s. Chika Okeke-Agulu, a professor of art history at Princeton University, said the sale of the Igbo objects – called alusi or […]
Nigerians and the international business community were shocked in late 2019 when the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) reportedly sanctioned the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics (LADOL), operator of LADOL Free Zone in Lagos for shortchanging the federal government to the tune of N16 billion. NPA had late last year accused LADOL of economic sabotage and revoked […]
Thousands of protesters gather in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, four days after five people were killed in banned demonstrations over the choice of a new election chief. Protesters gathered in Boulevard Lumumba, one of the city’s main avenues, marching around a vehicle carrying former warlord and opposition chief Jean-Pierre Bemba. The police broke up […]
With talk that Absa Premiership clubs might need players from their MultiChoice Diski Challenge sides to assist in completing the season, Orlando Pirates is one of the clubs that would not struggle for players from their reserve side. The Buccaneers have no less than four youngsters who would be ready to step up to the […]
Nollywood actor, Mike Godson, has advised women against people making them feel their men don’t love them. According to him, women should not let jobless people make them feel their men don’t love them, as no hard working man gives a woman 24 hours of his time. “No hard working man gives a woman 24 […]
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a special envoy to head its mediation mission in Mali, a report said Tuesday. “Given your position as the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the great role and contributions your tenure offered to […]
A Cape Town sergeant, who self-isolated after finding out she had Covid-19, ended up dying alone in her flat, her sister said on Tuesday. Chriszelda Coetzee, 38, had been in the police force for almost 20 years and was a familiar face in the Cape Town Regional Court. She started feeling ill and struggled to […]
China strongly opposes and condemns U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of the so-called “Hong Kong Autonomy Act,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. This U.S. move has grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs and seriously violated international law, as well as the basic norms governing international relations, the foreign ministry said. Noting […]
Somalia’s army commander, General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has survived a suicide car bomb attack that targeted his convoy at the heart of Mogadishu but left at least one person dead and two others injured, an army spokesman said near the scene. Somali army spokesman, Abdiqani Ali Ashkir said the while the army prevented them from […]
Family members and colleagues on Monday gather at the funeral of the first Kenyan doctor, Doreen Adisa Lugaliki in Bungoma, who has tragically become the first doctor in Kenya to die from COVID-19. “Our flower has been plucked” says the deceased’s sister, and colleagues mourn the loss in what is for them, a battle against […]
The Aliguma Foundation annually organises a slums soccer tournament at the Acholi Quarters The Acholi Quarters community has seen a transformation in football following the Aliguma foundation partnership with them over the past three years. Under the partnership, a number of pupils in the community have won themselves scholarships following Slum Soccer tournaments organised by […]
Thousands of workers in the South African liquor industry and its value chain are facing job losses after the government reintroduced a ban on alcohol sales just as business was picking up from a nine-week hiatus. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced the decision to reinstate the prohibition of alcohol sales and distribution with immediate […]
The US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said Washington will treat Beijing’s pursuit of resources in the South China Sea as illegal, inflaming tensions between the two countries and ramping up support for Southeast Asian nations. It was the latest forceful statement by President Donald Trump’s administration to challenge China, which he has increasingly […]
Some 600 Boko Haram members were freed in Nigeria on Monday after they regretted their membership and completed a rehabilitation and reintegration program. Bamidele Shafa, spokesperson for the Nigerian military’s Operation Safe Corridor, said members of the terror group who were caught in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states had sworn an oath of allegiance to […]
An update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Monday, July 13, indicated that 470 new cases of the infection were recorded, making the cumulative number of cases 24,988. The number of deaths recorded stands at 139, and the country’s active caseload now stands at 3,782. Regional breakdown Greater Accra Region – 13,690 Ashanti Region […]
Did CAF really make a good decision canceling the 2020 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations? With the outcry that followed the announcement, it is hard to think so. The World football governing body FIFA reacted to the cancellation with disappointment on Friday. The world football boss, Gianni Infantino, spoke about their dedication to promote women’s […]
East Rand residents came out in numbers to support the family of a 31-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by her live-in lover in yet another episode of gender-based violence. Thokozile Kubheka died on Friday night in Katlehong Extension 16 in what police believe was made to “look like a suicide” in an alleged cover-up […]