This week, Africa’s renewable energy journey was given another boost after major new solar and wind energy projects were launched in South Africa and Morocco. Africa renewable energy projects, These include a €100 million battery gigafactory and a huge hybrid renewable energy project. With more emphasis being placed by the governments of different African countries […]
Africa’s largest telecom event is taking place in Nigeria with the country hosting the 7th Ordinary Session of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Conference of Plenipotentiaries (CPL-26) in Abuja from July 23-24, 2026. Nigeria Telecom Summit AI 5G Digital Policies, The meeting, which has attracted delegates from 52 African member states, will help the continent […]
Police in Kampala are maintaining seven suspects in connection with murder and aggravated robbery. They are accused of killing and robbing Muhammad Kasozi, a resident of Kitezi in Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso District, on May 10. Kasozi used to be reportedly lured from his administrative center in Mpererwe-Kalerwe in Kampala to Kasubi to sell maize in […]
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed a 10-year military cooperation deal with Tunis Wednesday at some point of his first stop on a regional tour, hailing US-Tunisia collaboration over the combat in neighbouring Libya. The previous decade has viewed growing cooperation between the Pentagon and Tunisia, especially on counter-terror training and securing the North African […]
Up to 2.1 million human beings in Somalia are expected to face an acute meals insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or even worse outcomes through December 2020, a new report said on Wednesday. The crisis predicted to show up “through December 2020 in the absence of humanitarian assistance,” is due to “the combined effects of […]
After receiving the French president in March last year, Kenya’s chief Uhuru Kenyatta is on a go to to Paris. The President will meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace. Kenyatta who would be accompanied by five ministers is anticipated to attend a public funding financial institution conference, and meet with French […]
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied said he supports the dying penalty after public outrage over a woman’s homicide sparked calls for executions to restart. Tunisia carried out its ultimate striking in 1991, according to Amnesty International, however loss of life via placing remains on the statute books. Anyone who kills a individual for no cause deserves […]
The chief of the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) party, Maurice Kamto, is traumatic an clarification from the Cameroonian government — in an interview Monday, for what he perceives to be a de facto residence arrest in mild of deployed regulation enforcement patrolling his dwelling day and night time following demonstrations with the […]
It was hoped the Sunday appointment of Mali’s new civilian prime minister, Moctar Ouane, should elevate sanctions imposed by neighbouring countries. ECOWAS imposed sanctions on Mali soon after the junta led August 18 coup and said they would be lifted after civilian leaders have been appointed at some stage in the transition period. But the […]
Guinea commemorate the September 28 massacres. On Sept. 28, 2009, the Guinean Security Forces attacked its very own populace at some point of a giant pro-democratic protest in a stadium in Conakry, the capital. The political tournament used to be geared up through a Guinean opposition birthday party where a number of thousand opponents had gathered. […]
Another 22 humans died of Covid-19 in South Africa over the past 24 hours, bringing the wide variety of Covid-related deaths to 16 398 in the us of a as of Sunday, in accordance to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Seven of the deaths had been said in the Eastern Cape, 5 from KwaZulu-Natal, two from […]
A saddening sight on the Mauritius coastline. Two months after a cargo loaded with gasoline ran aground off Mauritius, the shores are nonetheless taking inventory of the damage. The wealthy fishing grounds and touchy marine habitats have been severly damaged via the oil. Conservationists are mainly worried about the long-term ecological injury to the island’s […]
At least 40 humans have been reportedly killed in a gasoline tanker explosion in Nigeria’s Logos State, local media suggested Friday. One witness informed newshounds no much less than 40 victims were killed however the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) was capable to confirm solely 23 deaths, along with seven children, The Tide website reported. […]
Ethiopia Prime minister Abiy Ahmed stated the country has “no intention to harm” neighouring Egypt and Sudan. Comments that come after months of negociations over the Renaissance Dam, situated upstream of the two countries, have failed to produce any agreement. Egypt has warned the Dam project could have devastating effects on its economy. As the […]
The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights dominated on Friday to reject the exclusion of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo from the upcoming presidential elections of October 31 — ordering the Ivorian nation to “take all necessary measures to straight away get rid of all obstacles” hindering his participation in the race as his […]
Guinea’s primary opposition leader called on neighboring West African states to help to give up a political crisis in Guinea where President Alpha Conde is running for a third term in the October elections. The 15-nation West African crew known as ECOWAS supports democracy in the location and has currently pressed Mali’s junta, who seized […]
Charges have been filed towards greater than 2,000 suspects in connection with the assassination of Oromo activist-singer Hatchalu Hundessa, and the ensuing violence, the Ethiopian government introduced Thursday. The killing in early July precipitated sizable violence in quite a few parts of Oromia, and the capital Addis Ababa, main to lots being killed and enormous […]
The West African bloc ECOWAS will probable figure out on Friday whether or not to carry probably crippling sanctions imposed on Mali after last month’s coup, its mediator said. The mediator, Nigerian former president Goodluck Jonathan, known as the 15-nation bloc’s sanctions “unfortunate” during a go to to Mali’s capital Bamako on Wednesday. West African […]
At least 9 cholera instances have been tested in southwestern Cameroon, with one death, nearby media pronounced Wednesday. “The cholera outbreak declared in Buea is very regarding due to restricted get right of entry to to easy water, a health machine weakened with the aid of the COVID-19 pandemic and the truth that Buea town […]
Protesters gathered outside the Casablanca Appeal Court on Tuesday, as Moroccan investigative journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi appeared to be questioned by an examining magistrate. Radi was first tried in March and was given a four-month suspended sentence after he was arrested for a tweet in which he criticized a judge for upholding […]