(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the new junta to release ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other officials detained during Monday’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Aliko Dangote has retained his position as the richest man in Africa, with a net worth of $12.1 billion, according to the 2022 edition of the Forbes’ Top 10 Africa’s Billionaires List. This is contained in a post on their verified Twitter account @Forbes. Chairman of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Burkina Faso military yesterday undertook to propose a “timetable” for the country’s return to constitutional order “within a reasonable period of time and after consultation with the active forces of the nation”. Shortly before midnight on Monday, Roch Kabore resigned from the presidency of Burkina Faso through a letter addressed to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Soldiers have arrested Burkina Faso’s President, Roch Marc Christian Kabore. On Monday, mutinous soldiers announced that the government of Kabore did not support them in a deadly insurgency. According to available information, heavy gunfire was heard Sunday night near Kabore’s official residence, Ouagadougou, the state capital Also, armored vehicles in the president’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three teachers, the headmaster and a deputy head were kidnapped from a Cameroonian high school by armed men in one of two English-speaking regions plagued by an armed conflict between separatists and soldiers, a teachers’ union told AFP on Friday. “An armed group burst into the Weh bilingual high school on Tuesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has urged key players and stakeholders in the insurance industry in Africa to brace up to the challenge of addressing damages arising from climate change across the continent. Prof. Osinbanjo gave the charge at the closing of the 2021 Conference of African Insurance Practitioners, with the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Enugu as heavily armed men Tuesday evening invaded the Enugu South local government office of the All progressive Congress APC, during their meeting and shot dead the State Youth leader of the party, Mr. Kelvin Ezeoha and one other member. African Examiner gathered that the members of the party […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed men suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Tuesday, stormed a Catholic church in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, South East, Nigeria, and disrupted ongoing Mass celebration. The gunmen, who invaded the church, queried the parish priest on why he was celebrating a mass […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali has said it will seek to overturn in international courts what Bamako calls “illegal sanctions” imposed by a West African economic bloc over delays to the country’s elections. “These measures are illegal under several international conventions” including those which “prohibit sanctions against landlocked countries” like Mali, interim Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops and armed men have exchanged fire in the Cameroonian city of Buea, leaving several injured in the capital of a region hit by separatist violence and a host for teams in the Africa Cup of Nations, the local mayor said Thursday. “The security forces rapidly intervened and an investigation is under […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A gunfight broke out near the Mali football team’s base in Cameroon, forcing them to cancel their final training session ahead of their AFCON match with Tunisia. Two people are reported to have been killed in a gunfight between government forces and separatists in the African nation. The western region of Cameroon […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has announced US$17.7 million grant to support access to quality life-sustaining education programmes for displaced, conflict-affected and vulnerable children and adolescents in Sudan. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, an estimated 4.3 million children were out […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has harped on the need to establish the proposed long-term carbon sink to offset carbon emissions with a view to ameliorating the impact of climate change. Carbon Sink Fund involves activities and mechanisms that absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to offset carbon emissions through afforestation, reforestation, forest […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to withdraw all its ambassadors from Mali and close land and air borders between member-countries and Mali. This resolution was conveyed in a communiqué issued after an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a $47.09 million grant for the first phase of the Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor, a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone in Mozambique. Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) are integrated development initiatives designed to concentrate agro-processing activities within areas of high agricultural potential to boost productivity, integrate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least six villagers were killed on Monday in an attack by al-Shabab militants at a village in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu, local officials said. Lamu County Commissioner, Irungu Macharia, said that the attackers, believed to have crossed over from neighbouring Somalia, also torched several houses in the attack there. “The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Danish government has provided a $30.1 million grant for the African Water Facility for climate-smart water and sanitation services in four drought-prone countries in the continent. The African Water Facility which is tagged, “Improving access to climate-resilient safe water supply and sanitation services in the Sahel and Horn of Africa programme”, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced yesterday $12 million catalytic grant to fund the roll out of the first Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Burundi. This seed funding grant is coming as a response to interconnected crises that have left 1.9 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the plan to set up vaccine manufacturing plant in Rwanda, the German Government is currently training of specialists for the take- off of the project aimed at using BioTech’s messenger RNA technology. Currently, only 1 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa are produced in the continent but the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) has harped on the need for the Government of Cameroon to include an annex dedicated to gender budgeting in the country’s 2022 annual budget. The IMF said the West African nation should prioritize and develop a strategy for financial inclusion, adding that the need for steady progress on […]
