Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News
Saturday, April 9th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a $5.5 million technical assistance grant to kick-start the roll-out of the flagship Desert to Power initiative in the Eastern Sahel region countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan. Known as the East Africa Regional Energy Project, it will be financed through the ADF-15 Regional Public […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Southern Africa
Friday, April 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been named as the winner of the 2022 Africa Road Builders – Babacar Ndiaye Trophy for the transport sector across the continent. The prize is awarded to leading figures in Africa who have demonstrated their commitment to the development of transport infrastructure on the continent. Sponsored […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube has said that the Zimbabwean government is currently implementing a range of social protection measures while tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The minister also stated that the government has lowered taxes on fuel and made changes to its land policy, adding that the government had made […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 100 people have been killed within one week in fighting between two Sudanese nomadic groups, according to the United Nations. Among the victims were six children and two children were still missing, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday. Some 2,000 residents had been […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If the resolutions reached at the 8th session of Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) which was held in Kigali, the Rwandan capital city, is anything to go by, Africa’s push for the realization of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063, may have been re-ignited for the continent. […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union Commission (AUC) has reassured of its plan to hold the 28th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. According to a statement posted on the commission’s website on www.au.int on Tuesday, with the theme: “Remember, unite, renew” would hold at 11 a.m. on Wednesday April 7. The […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The members of the UN Security Council on Friday expressed their deepest condolences to the families of the peacekeepers in UN Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) helicopter, which crash on Tuesday. The crash occurred in North Kivu, which resulted in the death of eight peacekeepers from Pakistan, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $7.5 million trade finance guarantee facility for the Central Africa Building Society (CABS) of Zimbabwe. This approval is the first for the Bank under its new transaction guarantee instrument, which was formally launched in July 2021. The three-year tenor facility will provide guarantees of up […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, South Africa
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the world marks this year’s International Transgender Day of Visibility, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria has promised to continue promoting the development of programmes aimed at improving trans person’s access to human rights. The Centre said it is proud to celebrate the rights and lives of transgender persons […]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In the power struggle that has been simmering for months in Tunisia, President Kais Saied has ordered the dissolution of parliament. This was his reaction to a meeting of lawmakers on Wednesday evening whose work the head of state had already suspended last year. Saied described the gathering at a National Security […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Institutional members of the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism’s Governing Council have endorsed plans to attract more private sector financing to the continent’s fertilizer sector. The move came during a meeting of the 13-member council, during which participants also validated the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism’s 2021 Annual Report and endorsed its proposed 2021 […]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities in Uganda’s border district of Kisoro on Wednesday said over 7,000 people from the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) crossed into Uganda after intense fighting. Kisoro Chief Administrative Officer, Manasseh Rukundo, in a statement said the Congolese were fleeing fighting that started on Monday between DRC troops and […]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN on Tuesday confirmed that eight peacekeepers on board the helicopter that crashed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR) died. UN Spokesperson, Mr Stephane Dujarric, in a statement, said no one survived the crash. “With deep sadness we confirm that there are no survivors among the eight peacekeepers who were […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Mozambican government has inaugurated a special agricultural zone called Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor. The Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor, which is located in Mozambique’s northern Niassa province, is expected to increase production and productivity in the southern African nation. It will improve the quality of agricultural commodities, strengthen value chains for soybeans, […]
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has emerged as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) The serving senator emerged the new national chair of the ruling party on Saturday at the Eagles Square, Abuja, venue of the APC national convention, after a voice vote. The new national […]
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-West unity list for the 2022 All Progressives Congress’ national convention has been released. In the list, a former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Iyiola Omisore, was nominated as the National Secretary of APC. Twelve other APC members were nominated in the list, a copy of […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced a new €10 million long-term financing initiative aimed at supporting entrepreneurs and businesses across Botswana with a leading local partner, Norsad Capital. The initiative represents the first targeted EIB support for private-sector financing to help Botswana companies impacted by COVID-19 and is part of the EIB’s […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for $3.56 million in grant funding to support the development of pharmaceutical industries in West Africa. The agreement was signed by the representatives of AfDB and ECOWAS in […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Youth and women are underrepresented in business coverage in Africa, according to newly launched The Business in Africa Narrative Report by Africa No Filter and AKAS in partnership with the African Union (AU). The report is the latest research project by narrative-change organisation Africa No Filter and forms part of their work […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, March 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Climate risks could cause damage worth $3.9 billion in the transport sector of Ghanaian economy by 2050, a new report released on Thursday has warned. The potential damage of $3.9 billion is thrice the investment of $1.3 billion made in the sector in 2019, according to the study which was led by […]
