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Black Lives Matter: Joint reflections by United Nations Senior African Officials
A desperate yearning for a long-departed mother. Reaching deep...
Op-Ed: Britain was built on the backs, and souls, of slaves
SOME years ago I found myself face to face...
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Construction of Africa CDC headquarters in Ethiopia to begin ahead of...
THE proposed construction of the new Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is supposedly expected to begin...
Business & Economy
CIIE set to boost Africa-China trade, says Standard Bank executive
THE China International Import Expo (CIIE) has helped to diversify China's sources of imports and...
Developing SMEs in Ghana
ONE of the most significant backbones of Ghana's economic and social development for a very...
World Bank backs infrastructure finance in East and Southern Africa
THE World Bank board of directors recently approved $425 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing to support the provision...
AU says Africa lost $55bn in ‘lifeblood’ tourism industry during lockdowns
AFRICA’S travel and tourism industry has lost about $55bn due to the closure of borders...
Former Irish president to lead probe into African Development Bank head
IRELAND’S former president Mary Robinson will lead a panel to investigate the leader of the...
A train bound for Africa’s future to emerge from the continent’s Covid-19 gloom
OUT from under the pall of gloom over Africa brought by Covid-19 and contracting economies...
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The activist purging Cameroon of French colonial monuments
ACTIVIST Andre Blaise Essama has been battling to purge Cameroon of monuments celebrating its French colonial past and replace them with local heroes long...
Veecraft Marine delivers 20-metre workboat to South Africa’s ARMSCOR
VEECRAFT Marine, a subsidiary of Paramount Maritime, has delivered a 20-metre (LOA) workboat to ARMSCOR on behalf of the South African National Defence Force...
Politics
Zimbabwe health minister fired over Covid-19 contract
DISGRACED Zimbabwe Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been fired for inappropriate conduct linked to the illegal awarding of a multi-million-dollar contract for Covid-19 medical...
Malawi’s Chakwera pledges corruption clampdown in subdued inauguration amid virus
MALAWI’S new President Lazarus Chakwera pledged to clamp down on corruption on Monday, as he delivered his inauguration speech in a scaled-down ceremony dampened...
Ghana minister resigns after breaching coronavirus measures
GHANA’S deputy trade and industry minister Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah has resigned for violating coronavirus self-isolation measures after testing positive for the virus, President Nana...
DR Congo @ 60: President vows to fight corruption, impunity
CONGOLESE President Felix Tshisekedi vowed to root out the corruption and impunity that has hindered the country since its independence from Belgium as the...
Belgian king expresses deep regret for colonial past in Congo
BELGIUM’S King Philippe expressed deep regret on Tuesday for the ‘suffering and humiliation’ inflicted on the Democratic Republic of Congo during its 75 years...
DRC PM lashes out at ‘arbitrary’ detention of justice minister
THE prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sylvestre Ilunga, has threatened to resign after President Felix Tshisekedi ordered the arrest of...
Lazarus Chakwera sworn in, promising to unite Malawi and stamp out graft
LAZARUS Chakwera was sworn in as Malawi’s new leader on Sunday, a day after trouncing Peter Mutharika in a court-ordered election rerun, and pledged...
US slams Tanzania for opposition members arrest
THE US criticized Tanzania’s arrest of eight opposition leaders during their party meeting on Wednesday, saying the action stifles democratic norms.
ACT-Wazalendo party leader Zitto...
Malawi’s opposition appears to win presidential election re-run
MALAWI opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has what appears to be an unassailable lead in a presidential election re-run, with 60 percent of the vote,...
