Opec oil and gas

OPEC Committee Recommends Fresh 600,000bpd Oil 

With crude oil prices shedding over $11 per barrel this year to $55, thus alarming the producers, a panel set up by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies have recommended a…

CAF African football

CAF inter club quarter finalist known

On Wednesday in Egypt, the draws ceremonies for both the CAF champions league and confederation cups were done with revenge opportunities served for some while other teams have had their backs on the wall following…

Business South Africa Investors

SA bond yields fall to five-month lows as…

Foreign investors have overlooked pertinent domestic risks and rushed into rand-denominated bonds, prompting the yields on 10-year government bonds to fall to their lowest levels in almost five months on Thursday. Global markets recovered this…

Tunisians US product

Tunisians protest Trump’s ‘Deal of Shame,’ call for…

Hundreds of people in Tunisia demonstrated on Wednesday in the centre of the capital Tunis against a recent Middle East plan by United States president Donald Trump. According to protesters, “Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan”:https://www.africanews.com/2020/01/29/twitter-uses-apartheid-label-for-trump-s-israeli-palestine-plan/…

Cyber security Ethiopia

Abiy’s chief of staff new head of Ethiopia’s…

Ethiopia has a new head of the Information Network Security Agency, INSA; the national cyber security outfit tasked with safeguarding the country’s information and information infrastructures. Prime Minister Abiy in a raft of recent appointments…

UNSC AU Kenya Djibouti

Kenya asks AU to intervene in Djibouti’s UNSC…

Kenya has asked the Africa Union to ensure it protects the integrity of the continental organisation and fidelity to its procedures over Djibouti's insistence to continue its bid for the UN Security Council non-permanent seat.…

Coronavirus Africa Ghana

Ghana quarantines two suspected coronavirus cases

Health officials in Ghana are investigating two suspected cases of coronavirus in the capital, Accra. The suspected cases involve two men, a Chinese national and an Argentinian national, who live together, but travelled on different…

African development Conference

African Union 2020 Summit Commences

The annual African Union Summit has kicked off in Addis Ababa. This 33rd Ordinary Summit, which commenced on 21st January, will run until the 10th of February. Comprising statutory meetings and side events, the summit…

Coronavirus China Equitorial guinea

Equatorial Guinea donates $2m to China to help…

The government of Equatorial Guinea has announced a solidarity contribution of $2 million to China over the rampaging coronavirus outbreak. The decision was reached after a cabinet meeting this week. It was chaired by President…

Sars trillian asset

SARS attaches state capture-linked Trillian’s assets

The South African Revenue Service has attached the assets of state capture-linked firm Trillian and its sole director, Eric Wood. During a liquidation application heard in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, brought…

Nigeria customs intercepts $8m cash stashed in car…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Tuesday announced the seizure of over $8 million at the main airport in the commercial capital of Lagos. Hameed Ali, NCS comptroller-general, told the media at a press briefing…

Tanzania arrests Pastor Mwamposa after 20 killed in…

The Tanzanian government has arrested Pastor Boniface Mwamposa after twenty people were killed and a dozen others injured in a stampede during a church meeting in the northern Tanzanian city of Moshi. He was arrested…