APO Group and Capital Ethiopia Join Forces to Expand African News Reach
APO Group, the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, is excited to announce a new content partnership…
APO Group and Capital Ethiopia Join Forces to Expand African News Reach
APO Group, the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, is excited to announce a new content partnership…
African Development Bank champions private-public partnerships and good governance for universal water access in Kenya
Kenya’s Water and Sanitation Investors Conference 2024, held in the capital, Nairobi, concluded with a call for accelerated investment towards…
Tony Elumelu Foundation Announces 10th Cohort of Entrepreneurship Programme – 20,000 Entrepreneurs Funded across Africa
10th Cohort of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (https://www.TonyElumeluFoundation.org) Announced; Over 50 business sectors from farming to technology represented;…
GE Vernova Debuts Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Powered Carbon Emissions Management Software at Power Plant in Cote D’ivoire
GE Vernova’s (www.GEVernova.com) carbon emissions management software, CERius™, will be deployed at Azito’s largest power plant in the Ivory Coast…
South Africa: President Ramaphosa welcomes adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza
President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the adoption of Resolution 2728 (2024) by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 25…
South Africa: Parliament Delegation Leader to Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly Urges World Parliaments to Ensure Compliance With the Genocide Convention
Ms Sylvia Lucas, the Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces and leader of the South African parliamentary delegation,…
SA orders German firm SAP to pay $26m earned ‘corruptly’
South Africa’s special tribunal has ordered German multinational company SAP to pay back 500m rand ($26m; £20m) that the firm…
I will lead with humility – Senegal’s Faye
Senegal’s President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye has pledged to govern with humility and transparency, in his first speech after Sunday’s poll.…
Technocrats to run Sudan until elections – official
Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council member Gen Ibrahim Jabir Ibrahim has said that the military would form “a technocratic government” to…
No more trees cutting in Rwandan says parliamentary bill
Rwanda’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that proposes stricter regulations to protect forests in the country. The…
‘Life in Soweto shanties is unbearable’
Thirty years after Nelson Mandela’s government took over and introduced a policy to build low cost houses in South Africa,…
Zambia strikes debt restructuring deal with creditors
Zambia has agreed to a revised deal to restructure more than $3.5bn (£2.7bn) of its international bonds with private investors.…
Malawi declares state of disaster over severe drought
Malawi has declared a state of disaster over a severe drought that is affecting most of the country. The announcement…
South Africa’s election court rejects ANC bid to de-register Zuma’s MK party
South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has failed in a legal bid to stop a newly formed party, backed…
US confirms knowledge of detention of Binance official in Nigeria
The US Department of State says it is aware of the reports of the detention of its citizen in Abuja,…
Nigerian court sentences Chinese businessman to death for murdering girlfriend
A Nigerian court has sentenced a Chinese businessman to death after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Ummu Kulthum…
African Development Bank approves $50 million loan to support climate change resilience, improve livelihoods and boost food security in Nigeria’s Yobe State
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a $50 million loan for the Yobe State…
Bodies of cult victims released in Kenya
The authorities in Kenya have begun releasing the remains of some of those who died in a cult which allegedly…
Ethiopia’s CBE bank recovers $10m taken during technical glitch
Ethiopia’s largest bank says it has recovered almost three-quarters of the $14m (£12m) it lost in a glitch that allowed…