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Feux de Brazza, an international festival of tradition dances, is set to resume in December after eight years of suspension owing to several factors including the pandemic. The decision came from the organizers after days of reflection held over the weekend. Per decisions, the festival will take place Dec. 7-10 with “Contribution of traditional instruments […]
Africa’s volatile Sahel region risks becoming a forgotten crisis because of the many competing emergencies around the world, a senior United Nations official has warned. The head of the regional office for West and Central Africa for the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Charles Bernimolin, noted that millions of people in six Sahel […]
The demand for Chinese 5G smartphones across Africa continues to rise, as more countries on the continent keep testing 5G networks and their citizens are upgrading from 4G smartphones to 5G-enabled ones. Despite the slow pace of 5G network infrastructure development in Africa, the enthusiasm among people across the continent to be part of the […]
The trade deficit in Tunisia widened by record 56% in the first semester of 2022, reaching 8.1% of GDP, while the budget deficit, exacerbated by mounting energy and food subsidies, is expected to reach 9.1% in 2022, compared to 7.4% in 2021, according to the World Bank’s latest report. Inflation in this country rose from […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its list of Covid-19 risk countries, withdrawing Morocco from “high” risk destinations for travelers (Level 3). For the American Health authorities, the North African Kingdom is no longer a high-risk destination for travel, placing it in “Level 2”, a moderate risk category given to countries […]
African health ministers attending the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 72nd Regional Committee for Africa — a top annual health gathering in the region — in Togo’s capital Lome have approved an eight-year strategy aimed at curbing disease and responding quickly to health emergencies. After a week of discussions about some of Africa’s most pressing health […]
The demise of Tunisia’s regional foreign policy was sealed by President Kais Saied who led his country to become a vassal state serving Algeria’s schemes in the region, on top of which supporting separatism in southern Morocco. Saied offered a state welcoming reception to leader of the self-proclaimed SADR republic Brahim Ghali, whom he invited […]
Alphabet Inc launched its Google Wallet in South Africa on Tuesday (23 August), after rival Apple Inc introduced its Apple Pay mobile payment system in the country last year — a sign that the tech giants try to gain a foothold in the continent’s rapidly growing digital payments space. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the […]
Burkina Faso’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturing company Propharm has launched the country’s first generic drugs production plant. The Propharm generic drug plant was officially inaugurated on Monday (22 August) by the country’s Prime Minister Albert Ouédraogo. Built by actors of the Burkinabe private sector and named Propharm, this factory, erected on 1.5 hectares in the commune […]
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine have been pushing many electric grid utilities in Africa — which have long been strapped for cash — close to financial collapse, whereby this situation is in turn also slowing down the continent’s clean energy transition. Ghana’s electric grid is in dire straits. In the mid-2010s, […]