The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
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 that has hit major hospitals in the country has delayed, even halted life-saving surgeries and…
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 Nigerian cities on Friday. One protestor and one police officer were killed while another sustained…
Business: Interim Raubex profits are down by more…
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…
South Africa: Zuma ordered to testify in graft…
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…
Nigeria vs Algeria: Super Eagles lose friendly match…
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…
NEWS: A new museum for contemporary art in…
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,…
South Africa: Mkhize explains reason for rise in…
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…
Netflix is hoping on boosting growth in Africa…
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…
Sports: Super Eagles completes final training session ahead…
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…
African climate activists press leaders on ‘life or…
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…
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 the announced return of their candidate, who has been held hostage for over six months.…
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 in West Africa that some fear could become a super-spreader event for COVID-19. The Magal…
NEWS: Unions press South Africa, urges Government to…
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…
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 these people – in particular the developing share of young human beings among them –…
Ethiopian Senate Votes to Sever All relations with…
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…
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 the last 30 years and faces several daily challenges. "This pollution is the kind of…
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 hundred of its younger guys went into exile by way of neighbouring Libya. In September,…
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 now call on bilateral partners to resume help to Mali in a statement signed by…
