Economic growth in the East Africa region is estimated to remain at a steady 5.9% in 2019, a significantly higher percentage than North Africa at 4.9% and Southern Africa at 1.2%, according to the African…
Download logoToday’s judgement by the Gaborone High Court to decriminalize consensual same sex relations is a victory in the battle for equality and freedom to love whoever you choose, Amnesty International said as it called…
Download logoThe Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy for Angola and Zambia, Baroness Lindsay Northover, arrived in Luanda on 29 May for a 3 day visit to Angola. She held talks with senior members of the Angolan government, members…
Download logoThe government today launched a USD 47 million (KSh 4.7 billion) Facility under the Kenya-Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP) aimed at spurring the private sector to provide viable solar and clean cooking solutions to…
Competition for scarce living space is a driving force in global migration, especially within Africa. For migrants who opt to return to their countries of origin, coming home to confront the same land pressures that contributed to their…
Download logoUNAIDS applauds the landmark decision of the High Court of Botswana to declare unconstitutional key provisions of Sections 164 and 167 of the Botswana Penal Code. Those provisions criminalized certain private sexual acts and…
The 2019 Uganda Rugby (http://UgandaRugby.com) ladies league that started on 4th May will be postponed briefly as the Ladycranes XV’s intensify their preparations for their away match against Kenya Lionesses on the 22/06/2019 in Kisumu…
26-year-old Mary Abuk has travelled for three hours, barefoot, to reach a medical camp run by Mongolian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in the country’s north. This is her…
The African Energy Chamber (https://EnergyChamber.org) will host an investment forum in Beijing on 2-3 July 2019, with a focus on giving Chinese and Asian investors access to Equatorial Guinea’s EG Ronda 2019 Licensing Rounds for…
Download logoIn northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State, conflict-affected youth are being supported for employment and income generation through an agricultural support programme funded by the European Union Trust Fund (EUTF). As part of the programme, FAO recently launched a massive…
Download logoJoseph Kakule, the community leader of the Vighole area, has become one of the most committed social mobilizers in a region ravaged by the ongoing outbreak Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo….
Download logoThe Security Council today renewed measures designed to implement the arms embargo against Libya for another year, in particular those authorizing Member States to inspect vessels on the high seas off the country’s coast…
Download logoThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of €1 million (US$1.1 million) from the Cabildo (governing council) of Gran Canaria in Spain to support food assistance for Sahrawi refugees in…
Download logoThe following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The Secretary-General is outraged by reports that at least 95 civilians, including women and children, have been killed and many injured…
Download logoFollowing the reported unlawful killings of nearly 100 people in an attack on a village in central Mali, Marie-Evelyne Petrus Barry, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa director said: “This despicable killing of civilians…
Download logoThe Secretary-General is outraged by reports that at least 95 civilians, including women and children, have been killed and many injured following an attack yesterday on Sobanou-Kou village, Mopti region, in central Mali. He…
Download logoGBV services accounted for just 0.12% of the $41.5 billion allocated for humanitarian funding from 2016-2018; two-thirds of GBV requests went unfunded, even while research shows that requests are far from meeting need; IRC…
Daughter of American President, Tiffany Trump, was spotted wearing a necklace from luxury fashion house, Jovadi Jewellery (www.Jovadi.com) , at the state dinner of the long-awaited visit of President Donald to the Buckingham Palace this…
POINT 1: Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) (www.Marriott.com) today announced the opening of its second Four Points by Sheraton (Four-Points.Marriott.com) hotel in Tanzania, Four Points by Sheraton Dar es Salaam, New Africa Hotel. The original New…
Download logoIt is crucial for African organizations and governments to understand the dynamic and significant role that information and communication technologies (ICT) play in enhancing competitiveness, especially in the context of the African Continental Free…