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The Sudanese army Sunday said a soldier killed Saturday two occupants of a tuk-tuk that sped through a military checkpoint in Khartoum during a coronavirus curfew. “A speeding motorized rickshaw drove through a military checkpoint in Khartoum without stopping… at 9:00 pm” on Saturday evening, army spokesman Brigadier Amer Mohamed al-Hassan said in a brief […]
Facebook announced it will cooperate with a consortium of telecom businesses to build, 2Africa, the Africa internet infrastructure. 2Africa will involve Alcatel Submarine Networks, China Mobile International, Telecom Egypt and Vodafone who make up part of the partnering companies, Anadolu reports. The project, defined as a mammoth 22,990 mile-long undersea cable around Africa, according to […]
Senegal has asked French national carrier to remove on its website ads that it will resume flying to the West African country as of June 16. The demand came from the Ministry of Tourism and Air Transport through a letter to National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM), local online media Seneweb reports. The […]
Burundi’s biggest stockbroker, Jackon Simbananiye, better known as Kirahwata, was assassinated less than a week before presidential elections. Jackon Simbananiye was abducted Wednesday evening as he was coming out of a sauna in Bujumbura and his body, still bearing marks and a rope around his neck, was found Thursday morning, May 14, lying in a […]
The containment imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 costs Africa 2.5% of its GDP, equivalent to $65.7 billion per month, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) revealed in a report. Private companies approached by the authors of the report say they are working at only 43% of their potential. These estimates do not take […]
Sudan’s Sovereign Council on Wednesday appointed former Maj Gen. Ibrahim Yassin for the position of Defense Minister in replacement to Gamal Omer who died in Juba in March. The council confirmed the nomination of the former Joint Command and Staff College in Khartoum after he was proposed by the military component of the council. Under […]
The Sahel state of Niger, which has been battling a bloody jihadist insurgency, said Wednesday around 75 Boko Haram combatants had been killed in the southeast and in neighboring Nigeria, reports AFP. Niger’s defense ministy said the 75 Boko Haram militants were killed in two separate operations by a regional anti-jihadist force in the country’s […]
After President of the African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina has been cleared in an internal investigation of accusations of prevarication and favoritism, his accusers are now attacking the Ethics Committee that conducted the investigation. They doubt its probity and are calling for an independent investigation. The whistleblowers at the African Development Bank (AfDB) have not […]
President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau is planning a revision of the constitution, at the root of the many crises that Guinea-Bissau has experienced since the last revision of this fundamental law in 1991. For the Head of State, it is a question of adapting the text to the challenges of the moment and […]
Morocco’s leading phosphate company OCP and the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) have struck a partnership to improve farmers’ access to fertilizers at affordable prices. The partnership between the KNTC and OCP’s office in Kenya will ensure that farmers can get fertilizers at the right time, reported the Kenyan Daily Nation paper. KNTC managing director […]