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UN grants Malawi $5.5m to cope with damage caused by Freddy cyclone

The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), a humanitarian fund set up by the United Nations, has granted Malawi $5.5 million expected to be used to back hundreds of thousands of people affected by Freddy, a tropical cyclone that has hit the country in the past days. The South of the African country has been battered […]

Nairobi diesel power plant to be converted to gas-fired generators

The Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE)-listed AEP Energy will convert the two diesel-fired Nairobi power plants it’s acquiring from Iberafrica to gas-fired generators whose electricity is cleaner and cheaper, the company said.   The South African giant is buying out Spanish company Naturgy Energy Group, which held 100 per cent shareholding in the Iberafrica diesel plants […]

UN Chief highlights in report to Security Council dynamics of Consulates’ opening in Sahara

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underlined in his annual report to the Security Council on the Sahara the opening, on August 14 in Dakhla, of Chad’s Consulate General, the 29th of its kind in the Kingdom’s southern provinces, which represents about 42% of the share of African countries. This reference takes place in an international […]