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 Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Following the ‘bleeding eye virus’ panic haunting Africa, health officials have issued a warning after an unidentified illness with flu-like symptoms killed almost 150 people since it was discovered in the southwestern Congo. The deaths occurred in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province between November 10 and November 25. In order to identify the […]
African countries are reluctant to sign in the Pfizer Indemnity clause that had been readily offered to the company by the UK government some time back. The non-damage clause protects the interests of the company but has put the African inoculation drive into a freeze mode. Under the Human Medicines Regulations of 2012, a new […]
Denis Sassou Nguesoo, 77, has been in power for 36 years, and last month’s presidential elections in Congo-Brazzaville brought no surprises. Sassou sealed in 88% of the votes amid widespread allegations of ballot stuffing and other voting irregularities. His rival who called for “vote for change” died of Covid-19 on the very day of voting. […]
Congolese opposition leader Guy-Brice Kolelae has died of coronavirus infection while being flown to France for treatment, his campaign director said on Monday. The news came a day after the election in which his presidency was his biggest challenge. “He died on a medical flight from Brazzaville on Sunday afternoon,” his party chief told AFP. […]
The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in Goma, Italy’s foreign ministry has said. Italy’s ambassador to the DRC, an Italian policeman and their Congolese driver have been killed in an ambush on a United Nations convoy in eastern DRC. According to local Congolese media, the ambush that killed the […]
DRC President Félix Tshisekedi has taken over the chairmanship of the African Union for a year. He will take over from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, 58, is a Congolese politician who has been President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January 25, 2019. Meanwhile, the leader of the […]
Over six guards of the virunga national park has been killed by the unknown gunmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this is according to a local media outlet in the country The arrangement loss of life as per neighborhood authorities is six park officers executed with one park superintendent truly harmed and two Mai […]
A popular university in Congo is set to empower countless numbers of young African authors and writers. They are particularly focussing on the storytelling aspect of literary work. Local understudy at the college shares what the area intends to him, “This is the place where I learn Chinese and the library you see here is […]
In the region of a hundreds thousand people, has lost their homes due to the floods that has destroyed homes in northern Congo. The floods has also destroyed farmlands and farm produce in the country. The World Food Program has reported financing of 1,000,000 US dollars for the principal crisis circulations of food items -, […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a danger of famine and tremendous meals insecurity in four international locations affected through conflict — Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria, and South Sudan. In a notice to Security Council contributors acquired through The Associated Press on Friday, the U.N. chief said the 4 nations rank “among the […]
The Republic of Congo has commemorated its 60th anniversary of independence. President Denis Sassou Nguesso on saturday underlined the “progress” made in his country, a former French colony. During a ceremony to mark the anniversary, Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for 35 years, spoke at length about the infrastructure built in the central […]
The Rwandan Parliament has expressed “reservations” about the likely effect of a Belgian exceptional parliamentary fee set up to study Belgian’s colonial past due to the inclusion of a “known denier” of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group. Belgium has hooked up a special parliamentary commission to observe its colonial past and its […]
The African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO), Tuesday, agreed to relocate the headquarters of the organization from Nigeria to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. The Council of Ministers approved the recommendation to move the temporary Headquarters of the Organization from Abuja, Nigeria to the permanent Headquarters in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. It also approved the new Host […]
There will be no African film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival according to organizers. In the midst of the fight against the coronavirus, the annual meeting of world cinema will be held virtually. A setback that did not prevent Pierre Lescure, the president of the festival, and Thierry Frémaux, the artistic director, from announcing […]
Dangote Cement exports from Nigeria to neighbouring countries fell 41% in 2019 when Nigeria’s government closed the land borders. The development has made the dominant cement company in Africa move its exports to Congo Republic, producing from plants in those countries. Nigeria shut its land border in August to curb the smuggling of rice to […]
A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the UN Food and Agriculture Agency said Tuesday as UN agencies warned of a “major hunger threat” in East Africa from the flying pests. Kenya, Somalia and Uganda have […]
The port of Pointe Noire is constantly expanding. President of the Republic of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso on Wednesday inaugurated new infrastructure for the Congo terminal. It is the concessionaire of the Autonomous Port of the Congolese economic capital. Managers of the port hope this will further consolidate its position as a transit country. “The […]