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, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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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, 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 […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, March 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FactSpace West Africa, one of the leading fact-checking organisations in Africa and AW Free Foundation, a non-profit organization, have entered into a new partnership with the aim of intensifying the fight against misinformation, disinformation, fake news and propaganda across Africa. FactSpace West Africa is an independent, non-partisan organisation working to tackle misinformation, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC non-Serving Senators’ Forum, a new political pressure group within the ruling All Progressive Congress has urged the party to use its March 26, 2022 national convention to fine tune strategies for hitchfree congresses and national convention for the election of the party’s flag bearers at all levels in the 2023 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South African Tourism has urged Nigerians to visit the country for the forthcoming summer and Easter holidays. Mr Thekiso Rakolojane, Regional Head, West Africa, South African Tourism, said this on Thursday in Kano, during the 46th Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA). Rakolojane described South […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa has said that no economy can operate without a reliable supply of electricity. Speaking on Thursday at the opening ceremony of the South African Investment Conference, the first physical convening of participants since 2019, the President noted that the ongoing reforms in the energy sector included […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, March 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ghanaian government has stated that it will embark on a 30 percent salary cut for its appointees. This is part of plans introduced by the government to reduce the economic hardship in the country. The presidency announced this on Twitter on Wednesday, saying that all measures have been approved by Ghanaian […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, March 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavy fighting has erupted at the airport in Mogadishu after Islamist attackers forced their way onto the premises, according to Somali officials. Police said al-Shabaab militants dressed in military uniforms had gained entry to the airport. The airport is situated in the heavily fortified “Green Zone ” called Halane Camp, the area […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gross underinvestment in services to get the water out of the ground and to those who need it most and untapped or poorly managed resources means millions of people don’t have enough safe, clean water to meet their daily needs, let alone face the impacts of the climate crisis, according to a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – NEPAD-Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility Special Fund (NEPAD-IPPF) has funded 105 regional infrastructure projects across Africa with over $114 million. This was disclosed at the recently concluded 34th Oversight Committee meeting of the NEPAD-IPPF. The Committee also noted that the NEPAD-IPPF is equally building a robust pipeline of bankable regional projects with $35.1 […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, March 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) have harped on the need to step up digital cooperation in order to boost sustainable development in Africa. This is coming after the EU-AU Summit which was in held in Belgium recently. Currently, only 33 percent of African people use the Internet, compared to […]
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Saturday, March 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least, seven people were injured on Friday in clashes between police and supporters of the former ruling party of Guinea-Bissau. According to newsmen, the incident took place in the capital Bissau at the headquarters of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, opposite the presidential palace. Police […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, March 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved funding of $127.8 million to develop and improve access to farming and pastoral lands in the eastern part of Niger Republic, along its border with Nigeria. The funding package which was approved by the Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the Bank’s concessional arm, […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Friday, March 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union Commission (AUC) and Morocco on Thursday signed bilateral agreement to boost air transport market services in Africa. According to statement issued by AUC, the agreement was on Revised Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) and the Memorandum of Implementation (MoI) of the Single African Air Transport Market […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, March 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali has launched a procedure to suspend broadcasts by French state-funded international RFI radio and France 24 television, accusing the news outlets of reporting “false allegations” of abuse by the Malian army. The Military junta in a statement published on Thursday said the allegations were made by the head of the United […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spark+ Africa Fund, a frontline impact investment institution has announced that it has accomplished its first financial close with $40 million to invest in clean and modern cooking solutions in Africa. Spark+ Africa Fund is the world’s first impact investment fund focused on financing the value chains of clean and modern cooking […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Southern Africa
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund, the concessional window of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a $125.3 million loan to million to expand water resources and boost climate resilience in Dodoma region of Tanzania. Dodoma city in central Tanzania, seats in a semi-arid region of East Africa with limited rains and surface water […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27), which will be hosted by Egypt, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has expressed its resolve to further amplify Africa’s voice at the global conference. COP 27 is scheduled for November 2022 in the coastal city of Sharm El Sheikh in the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) says its convoy hit an improvised explosive device in the north of Mopti on Monday, killing at least two ‘blue helmets,’ from Egypt, and wounding four others. MINUSMA, in a statement, said the peacekeepers were part of a logistics convoy on its way to Timbuktu. The […]
