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Category: Africa
Gabon: Bilie By Nze appointed as Prime Minister
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba has appointed Alain Claude Bilie By Nze as the country’s Prime Minister in replacement of Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda who ... Read More
Zimbabwe’s farming success: wheat self-sufficient for first time since 2004
Zimbabwe has set its largest wheat harvest in 2022 that reached 375,000 tons, making the landlocked country in southern Africa a self-sufficient agricultural powerhouse, which ... Read More
Rough start to 2023: inflation persists in DRC, Senegal, S.Africa despite measures
Inflation constitutes one of the major economic problems all across Africa, with the food prices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa ... Read More
Tanzania: Emmanuel Tutuba, new governor of Central Bank
Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania, has appointed Emmanuel Tutuba as governor of the country’s central bank, in replacement of Florens Luoga, whose five-year tenure ... Read More
Somali gov’t, al-Shabab deny peace talks as president calls on militants to surrender
Both the Somali government and the al-Shabab militant group have denied having held peace talks, which comes after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had called on ... Read More
Benin holds legislative election seen as test of democracy
Benin voted for a new parliament on Sunday, January8, with opposition candidates authorized to stand in the legislative elections after four years of absence. The ... Read More
Nigeria: Armed men abduct dozens of people during attack of train station in Edo State
A group of unidentified armed men attacked last Saturday a train station in Edo State, south of Nigeria, and kidnapped dozens of passengers, the Nigerian ... Read More
Mali: President Goïta pardons the 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in July
The 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in Mali, in July, described as "mercenaries", then charged in mid-August with "attempt to undermine the external security of the ... Read More
Africa’s 2023 economic outlook: Global headwinds to continue battering the continent
In 2023, some of Africa’s major economies are expected to suffer from the ongoing impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, runaway food price inflation and the ... Read More
Madagascar: struggles and resilience of tourism sector post covid-19
Since the reopening of borders in April 2022, tourism in Madagascar has been slowly regaining momentum after two years of isolation from the rest of ... Read More