Category: Africa
AfCFTA:African leaders discuss ways of boosting trade,February 7
The UNECA announced that it would host, along with its partners, Africa’s flagship business initiative the Africa Business Forum (ABF) on Feb. 7 on the margins...
Are coups back in Africa?
By Toyin Falola The most recent military intervention of January 24 in Burkina Faso, combined with the other recent coups in Niger, Mali, and Guinea, have sparked...
How Africa’s billionaires became 15% richer despite global pandemic in 2021 – Report
In spite of the devastating impacts of the global pandemic on businesses around the world, Africa’s billionaires became richer in 2021, a report by Forbes has...
Second African Leaders’ Summit holds in St Petersburgh
As it prepares to boost it’s presence in Africa, Russian authorities are gearing up to hold the Second African Leaders’ Summit in St. Petersburg early...
Omicron:Travel ban on African countries apartheid, Says Adesina
The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has condemned travel bans placed on African countries over the latest variant of...
Africa’s industrialization agenda important AFCFTA – Wabote
THE Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Simbi Wabote, has said that Africa’s industrialization agenda is at the heart...
Onwards to COP26: Demand for liability, payments for carbon debts – ERA/FoEN tells African Govts
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has called on African governments and delegates to CoP26 holding in Glasgow, Scotland to...
Google, UNESCO set to support online journalism institutions in Africa
Google has launched the Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education to enhance journalists’ training in 100 Journalism institutions in...
Mali gives ECOWAS representative 72 hours to leave country
The Malian government has declared the Special Representative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “persona non grata” and given...
Coup in Sudan; Prime Minister, other top government officials detained
An apparent coup attempt is in progress in Sudan. Military forces in the restive African country have arrested several members of the country’s...
