Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News Around Africa
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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
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
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
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 […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Sunday, June 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This year’s edition of the Tax Transparency in Africa report has been scheduled for launch on Tuesday in Nairobi, Kenyan. The launch is part of the 11th meeting of the Africa Initiative, slated for 14-16 June in the east African nation. The conference will gather experts from tax administrations, regional and international […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, June 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank has signed an agreement to invest in the Joint Reinsurance Company of Member States of Conférence Interafricaine des Marchés d’Assurances (CICA-Re), which is owned by a group of African countries. Under the agreement, the AfDB will take a 6.56-billion FCFA stake (approximately €10 million) in CICA-Re and join its […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, West Africa
Saturday, June 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new Cabinet in Guinea-Bissau took the constitutional oath in Bissau on Friday with 24 ministers and 12 state secretaries sworn-in as members, according to sources.. Foreign Minister Srkenuzy Carla Barbosa and Interior Minister Botche Cande remained in their posts in the government led by Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam. The education, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, June 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says African airlines’ traffic rose to 116.2 per cent in April 2022 compared to a year ago, an acceleration over the 93.3 per cent year-over-year increase recorded in March 2022. IATA’s director-general Willie Walsh said in a statement on Thursday that air travel continued to be […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Friday, June 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday suspended the country’s anti-corruption chief Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane with immediate effect. “The Constitution provides that the President may suspend the Public Protector (or any member of a Chapter 9 institution) at any time after the start of proceedings by a committee of the National Assembly […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, June 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least six people were killed in two separate attacks in the western African nation of Burkina Faso on Thursday, authorities said. Four soldiers were killed during an attack on a military base in Kossi province, and several terrorists were “neutralised” or captured when fighting broke out, the authorities added. In the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, June 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, vowed to clamp down on terrorism in the crisis-ridden country during his swearing-in ceremony on Thursday. “We will increase the military pressure on terrorism,” Mohamud, who already served as head of state of the East African country between 2012 and 2017, said. The new leader also […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved two grants of $9.25 million to implement the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme (ADRiFi) in Malawi. The move will boost the country’s resilience against climate-related shocks and food insecurity. The funding will support the government of Malawi to develop climate risk management solutions and pay its […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in collaboration with BirdLife and other partners is currently improving the protection and preservation of animal and plant species, habitats, ecosystems found in the Guinean Forests of West Africa (GFWA) Biodiversity Hotspot that stretches across most of West Africa. The CEPF is a joint initiative of the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Militiamen killed 12 people in a night raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the shore of Lake Albert, a local human rights group said on Tuesday. The group and an army spokesman blamed the attack on CODECO, one of many militias operating in Congo’s conflict-ridden east. CODECO’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that it is currently working with African governments and international partners to set up entrepreneurship investment banks for the benefit of young people in Africa. President of AfDB, Dr Akinwumi Adesina disclosed shortly after he rounded off his four-day official visit to Kenya, where he held […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday in Accra, Ghana, attend an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on the political situation in Mali and other parts of the sub-region. The Summit will hold at the Presidential Palace, Accra, also known as the Jubilee House. Mr Femi […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two Egyptian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were killed on Friday – the second fatal attack this week on a peacekeeping convoy in the West African country. The peacekeepers were killed, and another injured, when their Armoured Personnel Carrier hit an improvised explosive device outside the town of […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar have announced the conclusion of a €75 million financing agreement to support the construction of the new MADIBA vaccine manufacturing facility. The Institut Pasteur de Dakar’s new facility is being built in Diamniadio, a town and special economic zone strategically located between […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises have announced a new $2 million grant to address insecurity, school closures and escalating refugee crisis in Niger. ECW works through the multilateral system to both increase the speed of responses in crises and connect […]
