This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Category: Africa
US VP Harris’ weeklong trip to Africa in March, a bid to counter China, Russia
The US Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Africa later this month where she is scheduled to visit Zambia, Ghana, and Tanzania. The week-long ... Read More
CAR: Nine Chinese nationals killed by armed men, China issues a travel warning
Unidentified armed men killed Sunday nine Chinese and wounded two others in the mining town of Bambari, in civil-war hit Central African Republic (CAR). Abel ... Read More
Africa’s green hydrogen potential, vital for Europe’s future energy security
The European Union is eyeing the potential of Africa’s yet-to-be-developed green hydrogen industry, deepening climate and energy partnerships in the process, as evidenced by the ... Read More
Brain drain: Africa to lose skilled workforce due to Germany’s new migration policy
Germany’s plan to establish migrant centers in five African countries to offer a select category of Africans the possibility of settling on its soil is ... Read More
Blinken hails Niger as model of cooperation, promises to ‘deliver results’ in Sahel
The United States and its Western allies must demonstrate they “can deliver results” in Africa's Sahel region, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said ... Read More
Malawi declares two weeks of mourning for victims of Cyclone Freddy
Two weeks of national mourning has been declared in Malawi for the hundreds of people killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced by Cyclone Freddy, ... Read More
UN Security Council extends UN mission in South Sudan for one additional year
The UN Security Council has renewed for one year the UN mission in South Sudan where close to 20,000 forces have been stationed. Thirteen out ... Read More
International NGO decries Algeria for abandoning thousands of migrants in desert
International NGO “Doctors without Borders” denounced on Friday Algeria’s continuing expulsion of thousands of migrants who are abandoned in the desert of northern Niger without ... Read More
Mali takes delivery of Russian, Turkish military hardware
Colonel Assimi Goïta, leader of the transition in Mali, attended Thursday the delivery of three Turkish Bayraktar TB2, four Russian L-39 ALBATROS fighter jets and ... Read More
Gabon’s Transportation Minister resigns in wake of ferry disaster
Brice Paillat, Gabon’s Transportation Minister, tendered on Thursday his resignation to President Ali Bongo Ondimba, few days after the sinking of a ferry off the ... Read More