AU Urges African Countries To Intensify Efforts Against Defo...
The African Union (AU) has urged African countries to intensify efforts in combating deforestation so as to drive African countries' common aspiration towards developing green economies.
"Despite their prominent contribution to the development of Africa and the realization of the AU's ... Read More
Museveni Urges Africa, China To Establish Equitable Trade Mo...
President Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
The Ugandan President, Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has stressed the need for Africa and China to establish an equitable trade and development models that will accelerate efforts for growth.
He said Africa and China need to ... Read More
Somalia Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Guinea Over Somaliland
Somalia has announced the severing of diplomatic ties with West African country Guinea. The decision was announced in Mogadishu today after a cabinet meeting.
The development is linked to relations between Guinea and Somaliland – the semi-autonomous region of Somalia. Somaliland ... Read More
Ethiopia Restores Mobile Internet Connection In Capital Afte...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
Ethiopia has restored mobile internet connection in its capital city Addis Ababa after a 10 days outage.
The Ethiopian government is yet to give a statement on the internet outage, but the internet outage started on the ... Read More
ECOWAS Finally Adopts ECO As Single Currency
ECOWAS leaders took the decision at a meeting in Abuja, Nigeria.
Beginning in January 2020, countries within the West African sub-region will be able to use a single currency called ECO.
The currency was adopted by the Authority of ECOWAS Heads ... Read More
Kofi Annan Posthumously Awarded ECOWAS Prize Of Excellence
Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has been posthumously awarded the 2018 ECOWAS Prize of Excellence.
Another prominent Nigerian medical professional Dr Ameyo Adadevoh was also posthumously awarded the same prize.
Madam Germaine Acogny, a Senegalese dancer and choreographer ... Read More
Kenyan MP Arrested After Threatening Foreign Traders
Mr Kanyi was recorded saying the comments in a video which has been widely shared on social media
A Kenyan MP has been arrested after saying he would beat up foreign traders if they did not leave the country.
Charles Njagua ... Read More
Mauritania Joins Ethiopia, Sudan In Africa’s ‘In...
Internet connectivity has been cut in most parts of Mauritania, online rights group, NetBlocks; reported on Tuesday. The group said the outage was linked to post-election incidents in the country.
“Mauritania is in the midst of a near-total internet blackout as ... Read More
Zimbabwe Bans Use Of Foreign Currencies
The Zimbabwe dollar was scrapped after it became almost completely worthless
Zimbabwe has banned the use of international currencies such as the US dollar, South African rand and British pound.
Zimbabwe has not had its own fully fledged currency since 2009 ... Read More
Questions Surrounding Ethiopia’s Attempted Amhara Coup...
As the dust settles on what authorities in Ethiopia have described as an attempted coup in the Amhara region, many questions remain unanswered as to what exactly caused the death of five top officials.
Ethiopia’s army chief, the president of Amhara ... Read More