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China is importing more food products such as avocados, cashews, sesame seeds and chili peppers from Africa, after President Xi Jinping promised to increase non-resource imports from Africa and agriculture is emerging as the new focus of Beijing’s engagement with the continent. In the first two months of this year, Shanghai ports handled more than […]
The terrorist designation given to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, will be removed, Ethiopian lawmakers decided in a special session Wednesday (22 March), but UN human rights experts have warned that violations committed during the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region must still be investigated if long-term peace is to be achieved. Lawmakers […]
The United Kingdom is expected to make direct investments worth $10 billion in Kenya in 2023, but in order for the East African country to fully benefit from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed between both states in 2022, it will also have to maintain and enhance market access conditions. Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Investment, […]
The European Union, the African Union and the United Nations have called on the Libyan authorities to end arbitrary detention of migrants and refugees, starting with the women and children as well as other individuals with specific needs or disabilities. In a joint press release issued following their meeting held Monday in Brussels, the tripartite […]
Nigeria’s two main opposition leaders — Labor Party’s Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar from People’s Democratic Party (PDP) — on Tuesday March21 filed court petitions seeking to invalidate results of last month’s disputed presidential election that was won by the ruling party. Both opposition leaders said in separate affidavits the election was fraught with irregularities […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall announced Tuesday the creation of an agency for space studies, which, he believes, will drive further discoveries of the universe. “I decided to create the Senegalese Agency of Space Studies on which I exchanged for more than a year with Maram Kaïré during our meetings,” Sall said prior to the preview […]
A court in Chad has sentenced to life imprisonment hundreds of members of “Le Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde du Tchad (FACT)”, a rebel group accused by authorities of terrorism and the killing of former leader Idriss Deby Itno. The court’s ruling was announced by Justice Minister Mahamat Ahmat Alhabo. “More than 400 FACT […]
Only 22% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa had access to mobile internet services at the end of 2021, says a recent report by the World Bank, arguing that lack of mobile internet access is hampering job creation and poverty reduction in the region. Despite the increased connectivity of the world, there are still significant […]
Citizens in the four cardinal points of Africa — Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tunisia — have in recent weeks hit the streets over economic woes and political strife in their respective countries. Led by opposition leaders, angry people in Kenya in the east, Nigeria in the west, South Africa in the south, and Tunisia […]
Droughts in Somalia may have killed as many as 43,000 people last year, according to a new report by the Somali government and the United Nations published Monday March 20, while UNICEF Director of Programs Sanjay Wijesekera warned on the same day that “Africa is facing a water catastrophe.” The highest death rates were estimated […]