Posted by Eric Ojo
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a technical assistance grant of $2 million to fund research that will contribute to electricity reforms in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Established on 28 May 1975 via the Treaty of Lagos, ECOWAS […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Southern Africa
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Tanzanian government have signed a $125.2 million loan agreement with the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the implementation of a project that will help address water shortages in three districts in the country’s Dodoma region. The Dodoma Resilient and Sustainable Water Development and Sanitation Program (Phase I) will benefit more than […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, aimed at transforming the continent’s pharmaceutical industry. It is new groundbreaking institution that will significantly enhance Africa’s access to the technologies that underpin the manufacture of medicines, vaccines, and other pharmaceutical products. The Foundation will strengthen bilateral […]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least, 17 young people were found dead at a nightclub in a township in South Africa’s southern city of East London on Sunday, police said. “We got a report of about 17 people that died in a local tavern in Scenery Park, which is based in East London,” a Provincial Police […]
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Saturday, June 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Namibia and Germany signed a Financial Cooperation Agreement that would see the latter providing about 170 million U.S. dollars in a loan on favorable terms to support economic development in Namibia. This is disclosed in a joint statement by the two governments on Friday. According to the statement, the loans will be […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The American Academy (AAR) in Rome has awarded Monica Rhodes, the Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize in historic preservation and conservation. Rhodes, one of few academically trained African American preservationists, with 15 years under her belt in the act of protecting the nation’s history, has meritoriously joined the most diverse Rome Prize cohort. […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church) and the Alzheimer’s Association recently announced that they are renewing their nationwide partnership to raise more awareness about Alzheimer’s disease, particularly in African American communities. The renewed collaboration is aimed at educating and engaging more than 2 million U.S.-based AME Church members in the fight […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa50, African Development Bank (AfDB) and the newly launched African Sovereign Investors Forum (ASIF) have pledged to jointly mobilize capital for the implementation of infrastructure projects in Africa. The three entities will work together to galvanize financing and to drive the development of skills and expertise within the infrastructure sector. To strengthen […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Nations (UN) Secretary General, António Guterres has reiterated the need to collectively intensify efforts aimed at ending the lingering armed conflicts across Africa. The UN chief made the observation at the third Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development which ended in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday. This year’s edition of the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame has harped on the need for Commonwealth countries to harmonize and translate common visions into action to build back a shared future, prioritizing the youth. President Kagame gave the charge while speaking during a panel discussion at the opening plenary of the on-going 2022 Commonwealth Business Forum […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vodafone Germany, one of the largest and most modern telecommunication services providers in Europe has announced its plan to recycle more than 1 million old mobile phones from Africa. The company which is based in Düsseldorf, is a one-stop innovative and integrated technology and service provider with a portfolio including mobile communications, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide a €10 million loan to support the deployment of 107,000 high-quality solar home systems to Benin Republic The project which will be implemented under new EIB ENGIE Energy Access initiative, will open up access to clean energy for 643,000 people. The solar home […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of crisis-impacted school-aged children around the world requiring educational support has grown from an estimated 75 million in 2016 to 222 million today, according to a new report. The report which was released by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, West Africa
Monday, June 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday strongly condemned an attack in Kidal, a city in northern Mali, against a convoy of UN peacekeepers that claimed the life of a blue helmet. The Guinean peacekeeper was killed by an improvised explosive device, which detonated during a UN Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) mine […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, West Africa
Saturday, June 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Gambian government has braced up to the challenge of minimizing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the hotel and tourism sector of its economy. The government has taken decisive and concrete steps in reviving the sector by providing relief support to the industry, especially to formal and informal sector workers and […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Thursday, June 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said African countries must continue to explore various measures to combat climate change, desertification, while also addressing food insecurity and poverty across the continent. Buhari said this in a speech delivered by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of Pan-African […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting has led to the loss of lives and property. Kenyatta, the co-convener of the Inter-Congolese consultations under the Nairobi Process, urged all armed groups, both foreign and local, to lay down arms […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan-African multilateral finance institution, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has harped on the need to leverage Africa’s youth and digital technology resources in the quest for the development across the continent. The Bank also canvassed for increasing intra-African trade, providing insight into the challenges restricting trade and providing clear solutions as to how […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This year’s edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development holding in Cairo, will interrogate the interface between climate change and sustaining peace as well as development efforts in Africa, according to the organisers. The event which is slated for 21-22 of June in a hybrid format with sessions online […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Monday, June 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has expressed his appreciation of the mutually rewarding collaboration between the Bank group and the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB). The bank chief said delivering sustainable development, prosperity and improved quality of life for citizens is a mandate the AfDB and the CDB […]
