Mozambique’s long-held dreams of natural gas have got a fresh boost following an estimated $1.1 billion contract award by ExxonMobil for the Rovuma LNG Phase 1 project in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado region. The signing of the contracts represents a big leap towards FID for the project, whose objective is to build onshore LNG facilities with […]
Nigeria is sinking deeper into debt. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2021 budget to the National Assembly on Thursday. He announced that it would be funded by fresh borrowings worth 4.3 trillion nairas, which is a third of the total budget of almost 13 trillion nairas. That’s 33.2 billion American dollars. The president said […]
Uganda’s coronavirus cases may be small but the pandemic is constraining the delivery of health services regardless. A blood shortage that has hit major hospitals in the country has delayed, even halted life-saving surgeries and in some cases, patients have died. The China-Uganda hospital, Naguru in Kampala is a vital source of health care for […]
Two people were killed in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta state as protestors against police brutality took to the streets in several Nigerian cities on Friday. One protestor and one police officer were killed while another sustained life-threatening injuries during a protest in the southern town of Ughelli, Hafiz Inuwa, Delta State Commissioner of Police told AFP, […]
Raubex, the listed infrastructure development and construction materials supply group, yesterday warned shareholders its earnings per share for the six months to August 31 were expected to be much worse than it previously forecast. In a trading statement on July 30, the company said that it expected earnings and headline earnings per share to be […]
A South African judicial panel on Friday ordered former president Jacob Zuma to testify next month over allegations of state corruption during his nine-year rule, forcing the embattled politician to appear in court despite his plea that the judge was biased against him. The subpoena came just weeks after the scandal-tainted former president hit out […]
Nigeria lost 1-0 to Algeria in an international friendly played on Friday in Austria. It was the first game the Super Eagles were playing this year, with te entire football calender disrupted by the Coronavirus pandemic. Gernot Rohr despite withdrawals and injuries named a fairly strong side to face the Desert Foxes. However, it was […]
A thick layer of black paint, a giant canvas painted red… The talents of Abobo, in Ivory Coast, are expressing themselves. The painters are telling the stories of their hometown, with its colours and characters, to the visitors of the Adama Toungara museum. “This artwork reminds us about the history of this place, which used […]
A total of 160 more Covid-19-related deaths have been recorded since the last report, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday, who admitted that there has been an investigation into the ’’noticeable increase in the number of deaths recently’’. A total of 105 deaths were recorded in KwaZulu-Natal, 18 in the Eastern Cape, 6 in […]
When Netflix first launched in Africa in 2016, early predictions suggested it was likely run into unique problems it had not faced elsewhere, from users’ spotty internet connectivity to questions over its pricing. Five years later, the streaming giant is starting to tweak its Africa playbook by adapting to local market realities on the continent. […]
Super Eagles have concluded the final training session ahead of Friday’s friendly against Algeria at Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt in Austria. Gernot Rohr’s side international friendly match with the current African champions preparation for November’s double-header 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Sierra Leone. It is the first gathering of the Super Eagles this year, […]
Climate change presents world leaders with “life or death” choices, the Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate said on Wednesday as she pressed them to treat it as an urgent crisis. Poverty, hunger, conflicts, disease and violence against women were some of the knock-on effects she cited. “The people and the planet must come first before […]
They waited for hours throughout the night, to no avail. Supporters of malian political figure Soumaïla Cissé gathered to celebrate the announced return of their candidate, who has been held hostage for over six months. Soumaïla Cissé was campaigning in Timbuktu ahead of the legislative elections when he was kidnapped on March 25th. But authorities […]
Tens of thousands of Muslims descended upon Senegal’s holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a super-spreader event for COVID-19. The Magal honors the founder of the Mouride Brotherhood, Senegal’s most influential religious order. In previous years, as many as 3 million […]
South Africa’s largest trade unions held nationwide marches on Wednesday to protest the high level of job destruction, the poor state of transport, corruption and the lack of measures to combat the deep crisis generated in Africa’s second largest economy by the pandemic. The national strike hit key sectors such as transport, industry or education […]
By 2050, Africa will be domestic to 25 percentage of the world’s workforce. And yet there is no guarantee that these people – in particular the developing share of young human beings among them – will be employed, let by myself in decent jobs. Of Africa’s almost 420 million young human beings (aged 15-35), one-third […]
Ethnic tensions in Ethiopia continue to mount after The Ethiopian Senate voted on Tuesday to sever all relations between the federal authorities and both the Tigray regional parliament and executive. This comes after the Tigrayan leaders chose to unilaterally hold elections — initially scheduled for August, last month in defiance of the decision made back […]
Yawa Kouigan is the mayor of Atakpamé, Togo’s fifth largest city in population. She is the first mayor elected in the last 30 years and faces several daily challenges. “This pollution is the kind of problem that led us to think about development and how hard it was to manage natural resources,” she explained. “All […]
The Egyptian metropolis of Dahmasha. About sixty kilometres from Cairo. A ghost city considering the fact that a number of hundred of its younger guys went into exile by way of neighbouring Libya. In September, fifteen extra guys tried the unsafe journey to Europe and have considering disappeared — leaving in the back of their […]