About 83% of all jobs in Africa were informal in 2024, highlighting the continued dominance of an economic model that sustains livelihoods while constraining public finances and social protection, according to consolidated figures from the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The scale of informality has barely shifted over the past two decades, with the […]
Just after the United Arab Emirates announced the reopening of its embassy in Damascus, an aircraft departed from Damascus and landed in the airport of the Tunisian city of Monastir on Thursday (Dec.27). The plane was carrying more than 150 Syrian tourists who chose Tunisia to spend the year’s end holidays. This was the first […]
African heads of state gathered in Rwanda’s capital Kigali on Sunday (7 April) as the small African nation marks 30 years since the genocide orchestrated by armed Hutu that killed an estimated 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis. As Rwanda commemorates 30 years after one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century, President Paul Kagame […]
