African Airlines have lost $400m since the outbreak of the coronavirus in China in February, according to the global airline industry body. In recent months, airlines like South African Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Air Tanzania, Air Mauritius, EgyptAir, RwandAir and Kenya Airways have suspended flights to and from China. The continent’s largest airline, […]
The United Nations chief announced he has appointed Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as the global body’s new envoy to Libya, replacing Senegal’s Abdoulaye Bathily who stepped down last April. The former foreign minister of Ghana, who more recently has been Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s special representative to the Horn of Africa, is the 10th person […]
A court of appeal in Tunis has rejected the demand by a local television to interview media mogul and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui who is in prison, though the electoral commission has greenlighted the request. The electoral commission reportedly issued an authorization for El Hiwar Ettounsi to interview Karoui at Mornaguia prison amid ongoing presidential […]
