Category: Africa

Mon 29 July 2019: DAKAR: Tired of seeing Senegal’s seascapes spoiled by ever-growing mounds of cheap plastic bags, authorities plan to crack down on polluters by imposing fines and further restricting plastic use. The West African country, whose beaches on the Atlantic attract tourists from all over the world, is one of the world’s biggest […]

A model of Amos-17 satellite at the company offices in Ramat Gan, Israel July 28, 2019. REUTERS/ Sun 28 July 2019: TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Space Communication Ltd plans a satellite launch next weekend which it hopes will mark a rebound from a couple of major setbacks in recent years. Amos-17, which will provide […]

Sun 28 July 2019: ABUJA (Reuters) – African nations will need to boost output of goods and services and integrate payment systems if they are to take advantage of a new $3.4 trillion economic initiative, according to the head of the African Development Bank.A continental free-trade zone was launched this month in Niger which, if […]

Sat 27 July 2019: Wells in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Somalia and Somaliland provide clean water to 1.8 million people Turkey has drilled a total of 505 water wells in Africa to provide clean water to millions of people, according to the country’s Agriculture and Forestry Ministry. The wells in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, […]

 Thu 25 July 2019: New Zimbabwe dollar has not solved an essential problem: the lack of hard currency that is needed to pay for vital imports such as food Zimbabwe is faced with widespread hunger because the country lacks the hard currency needed to import basic food, and a new currency introduced in June has […]

Wed 24 July 2019: MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber walked into the office of Mogadishu’s mayor and detonated explosives strapped to his waist, killing six people and badly wounding the mayor minutes after a visit from the new United Nations envoy, Somali officials said Wednesday. The attack claimed by the al-Shabab extremist group […]

Wed 24 July 2019: ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC plans to renew its contract for crude sales with Indonesia which expired last year, part of moves to boost exports, it said on Tuesday. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it was interested in working with Indonesia’s national oil company Pertamina to […]

Tue 23 July 2019: RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccan lawmakers passed a draft law on Monday evening that would pave the way for strengthening the place of French in Moroccan schools, overturning decades of Arabisation. The legislation was adopted in the lower house by 241-4, with 21 abstentions. Most members of the mainly Islamist co-ruling PJD […]

Mon 22 July 2019: NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested on Monday on suspicion of financial misconduct related to the construction of two dams, an unprecedented detention of a sitting minister for corruption in a country notorious for graft. Charges against Rotich, announced on Monday, stem from a police investigation into […]

Mon 22 July 2019: Citing the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee’s recently concluded Rural Livelihood Assessment, WFPSpokesperson Herve Verhoosel, said that the situation was likely to last from now until September with a further deterioration into December that will widen the impact to more than 4.7 million people.  Moreover, WFP said that the hunger period will peak at the height of […]