Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $7.5 million trade finance guarantee facility for the Central Africa Building Society (CABS) of Zimbabwe. This approval is the first for the Bank under its new transaction guarantee instrument, which was formally launched in July 2021. The three-year tenor facility will provide guarantees of up […]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In the power struggle that has been simmering for months in Tunisia, President Kais Saied has ordered the dissolution of parliament. This was his reaction to a meeting of lawmakers on Wednesday evening whose work the head of state had already suspended last year. Saied described the gathering at a National Security […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Institutional members of the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism’s Governing Council have endorsed plans to attract more private sector financing to the continent’s fertilizer sector. The move came during a meeting of the 13-member council, during which participants also validated the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism’s 2021 Annual Report and endorsed its proposed 2021 […]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities in Uganda’s border district of Kisoro on Wednesday said over 7,000 people from the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) crossed into Uganda after intense fighting. Kisoro Chief Administrative Officer, Manasseh Rukundo, in a statement said the Congolese were fleeing fighting that started on Monday between DRC troops and […]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN on Tuesday confirmed that eight peacekeepers on board the helicopter that crashed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR) died. UN Spokesperson, Mr Stephane Dujarric, in a statement, said no one survived the crash. “With deep sadness we confirm that there are no survivors among the eight peacekeepers who were […]
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
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
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, […]
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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
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
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 […]
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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 […]
