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The African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO) is planning to get its first bank by June 2024 in a move to secure funding for the development of regional energy infrastructure. The organization unveiled the plan during a November 2 meeting in Benin. The bank named as African Energy Bank (AEB) would be launched no later than […]
King Mohammed VI has called for launching an international initiative to help Sahel countries access the Atlantic Ocean. In a speech marking the 48th anniversary of the Green March he delivered Monday evening, the King recalled the difficulties facing African sister countries in the Sahel. Such issues “will not be solved by security and military […]
Close to 1,000 African migrants mostly from Senegal reached the shores of Spain’s autonomous territory of the Canary Islands over the week-end, a new record in the history of the archipelago. Close to 32,000 migrants have completed the dangerous Atlantic route from the African continent to the Spanish islands off northwestern Africa this year, the […]
A group of demonstrators took to the streets Sunday November 5 in Niamey, capital of Niger, calling for the arrest of ex-President Issoufou Mahamadou that they accuse of treason, reports say. The protestors hailing from various Civil society organizations held banners reading “Issoufou Mahamadou, traitor to the nation”. Mahamadou, 71, led the country from April […]
Brahim Guihini Dadi, former boss of Chad’s Civil Aviation Authority (ADAC), has launched Royal Airways, a private airline to provide domestic flights, connecting the central African country’s cities. The new airliner’s hub is located at N’Djamena Hassan Djamous international airport. The company broke down its strategy into four phases including the establishment of a network […]
At least nine people were killed in a heavy gunfire in Guinea during the November 4-5 weekend when heavily armed commandos plucked the country’s ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and three other former officials out of a prison, prompting a successful man hunt. Camara, who was on trial over a 2009 massacre during his presidency, was […]
During a visit to Tanzania, German President Frank Walter Steinmeier has asked the country and its people to forgive Germany’s colonial abuses under its colonial rule. Steinmeier’s move to ask for forgiveness from the descendants of hundreds of thousands of victims of violence committed by German colonial rulers more than a century ago has been […]
The US President Joe Biden endorsed the extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) upon its expiry in September 2025. “I strongly support re-authorization of the African Growth and Opportunity Act — a landmark, bipartisan law that has formed a bedrock for US trade with sub-Saharan Africa for more than two decades,” said […]
Uganda’s government has passed a bill for the Uganda National Oil Business (UNOC), a state-owned oil business, to domestically buy and supply oil, thus ending its dependence on neighboring Kenya for its oil needs, thus taking its fate into its own hands. The bill is meant to terminate the present method of importing oil through […]
Morocco will host nine matches this current November, as part of the opening rounds of the African qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Royal Moroccan Football Federation has stated in a post on its website that within the framework of activating the […]