Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Uncategorized
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Key players and stakeholders in Africa’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have called for more selective investment, accelerated business acquisitions and increased cooperation to help the continent feed itself and the world. A panel of some of Africa’s most promising and emerging SME agripreneurs made the call on Wednesday at a virtual […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Uncategorized, West Africa
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday approved $27.33 million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilize a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The bank’s Board of Directors approval of the grants is sequel to a meeting of the extended Bureau of the Conference of Heads […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Photo: Zimbabwe’s Minister for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Monica Mutsvangwa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Under fire Zimbabwean government was forced to make a U-turn and to annul special mining grants it had issued to some Chinese companies within the country’s biggest national park. Shocked citizens mostly comprising hoteliers, wildlife activists, environmentalists and traditional leaders immediately […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
By Daniel Jones, Harare (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A few days after re-opening the tourism industry and allowing activities to resume, Zimbabwe government has given green light to domestic and international flights to recommence. Travelers will however be required to produce Covid-19 test certificates as flights resume this Thursday. Airlines cancelled flights in March when most […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Monday, September 7th, 2020
Photo: Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany (C) and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Mostafa Waziri (R) look at a 2,500-year-old coffin discovered in Giza, Egypt, on Sept. 6, 2020. (Xinhua photo) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt has announced the discovery of a collection of more than 13 intact sealed coffins, dating […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Monday, September 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-South Africa’s ruling ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule is expected to lead a 10-member delegation to meet Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF counterparts on Tuesday. The meeting is expected to discuss among other issues, the crisis in Zimbabwe although President Mnangagwa and his government have remained in denial saying there is no crisis in the country. However, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Friday, September 4th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the search for safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines gather momentum, African countries are signing up to a new initiative, which aims to secure at least 220 million doses of the vaccine for the continent, once licensed and approved. All 54 countries on the continent have expressed interest in COVAX, a global […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -A global pharmaceutical company, Novartis and the African Union (AU) through the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) have announced a new collaboration to facilitate the supply of medicines from the Novartis Pandemic Response Portfolio to the AU member states and Caricom countries. The collaboration aims to help alleviate supply and logistical constraints in […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, East/Central Africa, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mozambique has banned the importation of cultured fish from neighbouring Malawi, following the outbreak of a lethal disease in fish reared in captivity in Malawi. The decision was announced in Maputo by the Minister of Sea, Interior Waters and Fisheries, Augusta Maita, the country’s largest newspaper, Noticias, reported on Wednesday. Authorities, mainly […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Zimbabwean government has re-opened the tourism industry ending a five-months closure as a result of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country’s tourism minister recently said the sector has taken a painful nosedive as a result of the pandemic with arrivals expected to falls from around 2.5 million per annum recorded […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Zimbabwe High Court has granted bail to opposition leader and top journalist who have been languishing in remand prison for over a month. Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume was released on Z$50 000 bail and immediately barred from using his Twitter handle @JacobNgarivhume which the State alleges he was using to incite […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa has given in to pressure from his country and “suffering” Zimbabweans to intervene in the neighbouring nation’s simmering human rights crisis as he is expected to send a delegation to engage both Zanu-PF and other stakeholders. This comes as the country is facing a possible new wave of demonstrations […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe government plans to repossess black owned land and give it back to former white farmers who were once dispossessed through the chaotic land reform 20 years ago during the late President Robert Mugabe era. Just in July, President Mnangagwa signed a US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Deed to compensate white farmers who […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Monday, August 31st, 2020
By Daniel Jones, Harare (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s wildlife authorities have been forced to dig deeper into science after 11 elephants were found dead under mysterious circumstances near the border with Botswana, with cyanide poisoning and poaching being ruled out. The carcasses were discovered last Friday in Pandamasue Forest, one of the wildlife havens between […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa, West Africa
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the riot act read by the Federal Government to hostility towards Nigerians in Ghana, the Ghanaian authorities has extended the olive branch, promising commitment to warm relations with Nigeria. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Ghanaian authority said it would engage the Federal Government of Nigeria with a view to […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Saturday, August 29th, 2020
By Daniel Jones, Harare (AFRICAN EXAMINER)-A car rental company in Zimbabwe has been dragged into the messy abductions after one of its vehicles was caught on Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) kidnapping one of the victims. A video showing a white Ford Ranger that was used to carry one of the victims of the abductions Tawanda […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa, Uncategorized
Friday, August 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sided with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), asking for Mali to return to civilian rule within one year. Buhari who was present in the virtual meeting of ECOWAS Heads of State and Governments on Friday, urged the Malian military to hand over to a civilian […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, West Africa
Thursday, August 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINR) – Mali’s new military rulers said that former president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who had been detained since the country’s coup on August 18, had been freed. The junta, which calls itself the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), said on Facebook it was “informing public and international opinion that former […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, West Africa
Thursday, August 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – France’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday the transition in Mali needs to be quick, but that the coup d’etat in the country would not stop French military operations targeting militants. The leaders of the military coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keita in Mali on Aug. 18 have told a delegation of West […]
Posted by African Examiner
East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, August 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Doctors employed by Kenya’s Nairobi County government resumed work on Thursday following a six-day strike over delayed salaries and a lack of protective equipment when handling patients who may have COVID-19, a union official said. Thuranira Kaugiria, Nairobi County Secretary General of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union, said this […]
