Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises and the Norwegian Government have jointly expressed worries over the increasing number of children that have been pushed out of the educational system in Ethiopia due the severe drought, conflict and forced displacement. Representatives of […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Water is critical to avert a climate disaster, a new landmark report which was presented at the recently concluded 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, has warned. The report which was facilitated by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is the first-ever summary climate of freshwater’s role in climate […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) Secretariat has launched a scheme to support mechanisms for climate adaptation finance for women entrepreneurs and youth. The scheme, “YouthADAPT: Empowering Women and Youth for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Climate Adaptation and Resilience”, will develop innovative, transformative climate-resilient bankable projects aligned with African countries’ Nationally […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, December 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has said that the African Diaspora has become the largest financier of the continent. Dr. Adesina made the observation in his opening remarks at the hybrid Forum, hosted by the bank in partnership with the African Union (AU) Commission, the International Organisation […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC Presidential Campaign Council has insisted that its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu will not attend Arise TV Presidential Town Hall meeting slated for December 04, 2022 adding that the campaign will not succumb to the station’s “blackmail”. The statement reads in full: “We find it shocking and downright anomalous that […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, Technology
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Angolan Government has expressed its appreciation of the roll out of Remote Appraisal, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation (RASME) project in Angola, following a three-day training session in the capital, Luanda. RASME which is an initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB), is essentially for remote monitoring and evaluation of development projects. […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News Around Africa
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari has harped on the need for Africa to take advantage of its large youth population to further enhance socio-economic development in the continent. President Buhari made the observation while speaking at the African Union Extraordinary Summit on Industrialization, Economic Diversification, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional lending arm for the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved $13.95 million grant for the implementation of Borana Resilient Water Development for Improved livelihoods programme in Ethiopia Administered by the AfDB, the ADF comprises 32 contributing countries and benefits 37 countries. The 37 ADF-eligible countries […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, North Africa
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah has expressed his government’s readiness to hold general elections in the country, calling for local and international pressure to complete the laws regulating the elections. Dbeibah made his remarks during a conference organised by the National Elections Commission in the capital Tripoli under the slogan “Together we […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has opened up on how he assisted to resolve the conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray. African Examiner recalls that on November 2, the Ethiopian government agreed to end the two-year conflict with rebel forces in the country’s northern Tigray region. Obasanjo, in a statement issued by Kehinde […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked African countries to collaborate to forestall the circulation of illegal weapons in their countries. Buhari made this known on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at the 16th summit of the heads of state and government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), in Abuja. He was speaking on […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional lending arm for the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved $16 million in loan and grant financing to Niger to implement the Financial Sector Deepening and Inclusion Project. Administered by the AfDB, the ADF comprises 32 contributing countries and 37 benefits countries. The 37 ADF-eligible […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 14 people Sunday died from a landslide that occurred during a funeral ceremony in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Al Jazeera reported that the number of confirmed death was given by the regional governor, Naseri Bea, as rescuers continue to search for dozens of others who remain missing. Mr Bea described the area […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, November 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A war of attrition is quietly raging in the Presidency between the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami over the constitution of the proposed Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The arrowhead in the contest of wit and influence […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Sunday, November 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – European Union (EU) Commission and the Commission of the African Union (AU) will hold the 11th Commission-to-Commission (C2C) meeting on Monday in Brussels to strengthen the partnership between the continents. The meeting is coming after the EU-AU summit in February this year. The two continents aim to demonstrate and share with the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – North Africa remains the most advanced region in industrial development in Africa, according to a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The inaugural edition of the report which was jointly launched by AfDB, AU and UNIDO on the […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Argentina struggled massively to start well for the second game in a row, but second-half strikes from Lionel Messi and Enzo Fernández kept their qualifying chances alive As for Mexico, they have their backs against the wall following another dismal performance. The opening minutes were closely-fought, and neither side managed to establish […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif has harped on the need for the international community to take concretes and pragmatic steps toward ending violence against women and girls. ECW is the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. It supports quality education outcomes for refugee, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines
Thursday, November 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Finland’s Ambassador for Climate Change, Jan Wahlberg has said that African countries want the proposed climate fund to be based on public donations with no repayment obligation. Wahlberg noted that this option would help the countries from becoming even more burdened with debts on top of the challenges created by the weaker […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines
Thursday, November 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a $27.9 million grant to Ghana for the development of Savannah Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (SADP). The SADP project, which is located in Savannah region of the West African nation, will be implemented by Ghana’s […]
