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Category: Africa
Rabat hosts unprecedented exhibition of Benin’s contemporary art under the theme “from restitution to revelation”
The Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat hosts from January 18 to May 15, 2023 an exhibition of Benin’s contemporary art ... Read More
Ethiopia: Head of Supreme Court, her deputy resign
Meaza Ashenafi, President of Ethiopia’s Federal Supreme Court and her deputy, Solomon Areda Waktolla have thrown in the towel, more than three years into their ... Read More
Equatorial Guinea: President’s son arrested for selling aircraft belonging to national carrier
Ruslan Obiang Nsue, a son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo, has been placed under house arrest for the alleged sale of an airplane ... Read More
EAC members bicker over who will host regional central bank to be set up in 2023
A decision to set up the East African Monetary Institute (EAMI) — the Central Bank of East Africa — which is widely seen as a ... Read More
UK court allows appeal over govt’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda
British judges in the London’s High Court gave the green light on Monday, January 16, for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the ... Read More
Viability of planned Ugandan railway link to Kenya is questioned by analysts
Uganda has switched from a Chinese to a Turkish company to build a proposed $2 billion railway line linking its capital to the border with ... Read More
Burkina Faso: search underway for 50 women abducted by jihadists in restive Sahel region
Security forces are searching for at least 50 women that were abducted by suspected Islamist extremists in Burkina Faso’s insurgency-hit northern Sahel region, a regional ... Read More
Senegal: New road accident kills 22 people
A road accident killed Monday 22 people in the northern province of Louga in another tragedy, the second this month after the accident that killed ... Read More
Cyril Ramaphosa scraps Davos plans over energy crisis at home
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled plans to take part in World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos because of the energy crisis affecting the ... Read More
Africa offers new solutions to avoid risks derailing net-zero energy transition — WEF report
Ahead of its annual meeting taking place in Davos in Switzerland, the World Economic Forum (WEF) says that short-term fixes to the energy crisis including ... Read More