Egypt's President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi and Russia's President Vladmir Putin shake hands The Russian president has welcomed thousands of African leaders to discuss politics and business "worth billions of dollars." Unlike China, Putin has promised to refrain from 'political or other' ... Read More

Hamad Buamim, President and CEO of Dubai Chamber Heads of state, 17 ministers, high-ranking government officials and prominent business leaders from Africa have confirmed their participation for the fifth edition of the Global Business Forum Africa (GBF Africa), which takes ... Read More

Mrs Alicia Rico Perez del Pulgar Spain has recently adopted a new comprehensive strategy, III Africa Plan, which seeks to establish a balanced relationship with their African partners based on trust, dialogue and shared responsibilities around four common objectives. Under the ... Read More

The experimental vaccine currently being used to prevent the spread of Ebola has been approved by European regulators. The vaccine, manufactured by US drug maker Merck, has been shown to be effective in protecting people from the deadly virus. The World Health ... Read More

Five people have been arrested in Uganda after they were found hiding their children to avoid the measles, rubella and polio mass vaccination programme. The authorities are hoping to immunise 18 million children under the age of 15 over the next ... Read More

Abiy Ahmed - Ethiopian Prime Minister The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who made peace last year with bitter foe Eritrea. He was awarded the prize for his efforts to "achieve peace and ... Read More

  Paul Kagame - Rwanda President Rwanda‘s parliament has passed a law scrapping over 1,000 laws considered colonial and outdated. For months the country debated and discussed plans to scrap all the country’s colonial-era laws. Local media New Times reported that some of these ... Read More

Rwanda has the most inclusive parliament of women representation in the world Rwanda has broken its current world record of 64 per cent female representation in Parliament, setting a new one of 67.5 per cent. Out of 80 seats, women now occupy ... Read More

Rwanda has opened Africa’s first smartphone manufacturing plant in the capital, Kigali, in an event attended by President Paul Kagame. Manufactured by technology company Mara Group – the Mara X and Mara Z smartphones – will use Google’s Android operating system ... Read More

More than 1,000 people have drowned in 2019 so far trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday. Some 1,028 people are assumed to have died as of Tuesday, Dominik Bartsch, representative of the ... Read More