Africa

Africa: Covid-19 cases pass 1.55M, deaths near 38,000

ADDIS ABABA Coronavirus cases in Africa are now over 1.55 million (1,556,262), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention…

October 11, 2020

Breaking: Nigeria takes on new loans for 2021 budget

Nigeria is sinking deeper into debt. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2021 budget to the National Assembly on Thursday.…

October 10, 2020

Health: Uganda’s hospitals run out of blood

Uganda's coronavirus cases may be small but the pandemic is constraining the delivery of health services regardless. A blood shortage…

October 10, 2020

Nigeria: Two Killed In Protest Against Police Brutality

Two people were killed in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta state as protestors against police brutality took to the streets in several…

October 10, 2020

Business: Interim Raubex profits are down by more than 130%

Raubex, the listed infrastructure development and construction materials supply group, yesterday warned shareholders its earnings per share for the six…

October 10, 2020

South Africa: Zuma ordered to testify in graft probe by Panel

A South African judicial panel on Friday ordered former president Jacob Zuma to testify next month over allegations of state…

October 10, 2020

Nigeria vs Algeria: Super Eagles lose friendly match in Austria

Nigeria lost 1-0 to Algeria in an international friendly played on Friday in Austria. It was the first game the…

October 10, 2020

NEWS: A new museum for contemporary art in Ivory Coast

A thick layer of black paint, a giant canvas painted red... The talents of Abobo, in Ivory Coast, are expressing…

October 9, 2020

South Africa: Mkhize explains reason for rise in Covid-19 deaths

A total of 160 more Covid-19-related deaths have been recorded since the last report, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on…

October 9, 2020

Netflix is hoping on boosting growth in Africa with mobile-only subscriptions

When Netflix first launched in Africa in 2016, early predictions suggested it was likely run into unique problems it had…

October 9, 2020

Sports: Super Eagles completes final training session ahead of Algeria tie

Super Eagles have concluded the final training session ahead of Friday’s friendly against Algeria at Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt in Austria.…

October 9, 2020

African climate activists press leaders on ‘life or death’ choices

Climate change presents world leaders with "life or death" choices, the Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate said on Wednesday as…

October 8, 2020

No show from hostages, despite speculations in Mali

They waited for hours throughout the night, to no avail. Supporters of malian political figure Soumaïla Cissé gathered to celebrate…

October 8, 2020

Senegal holds large religious festival amid pandemic

Tens of thousands of Muslims descended upon Senegal's holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition…

October 8, 2020

NEWS: Unions press South Africa, urges Government to provide jobs and an enabling economy

South Africa's largest trade unions held nationwide marches on Wednesday to protest the high level of job destruction, the poor…

October 8, 2020

Influencing Africa’s informal economy for young people

By 2050, Africa will be domestic to 25 percentage of the world's workforce. And yet there is no guarantee that…

October 8, 2020

Ethiopian Senate Votes to Sever All relations with Tigray’s Parliament

Ethnic tensions in Ethiopia continue to mount after The Ethiopian Senate voted on Tuesday to sever all relations between the…

October 7, 2020

Breaking: Togo Set To Move Towards Decentralization

Yawa Kouigan is the mayor of Atakpamé, Togo's fifth largest city in population. She is the first mayor elected in…

October 7, 2020

NEWS: Egyptian Town Laments Missing Migrant Relatives

The Egyptian metropolis of Dahmasha. About sixty kilometres from Cairo. A ghost city considering the fact that a number of…

October 7, 2020

NEWS: ECOWAS Lifts Mali Sanctions

West Africa's ECOWAS has determined to lift the post-coup sanctions the bloc had put in software towards Mali. ECOWAS leaders…

October 6, 2020

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