Bloomberg | A Nigerian startup backed by private-equity firm Lightrock LLP is looking to deploy electric vehicles in about 8 African countries by next year as...
Reuters | Ghana’s government will sign an agreement next week with Thelo DB consortium for a US$3.2 billion project to develop and make operational its Western...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
By Dennis Matanda The expression “tenacious contention” suggests that China and the United States are at an impasse after a dogged battle for the position of...
Reuters | Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and longtime rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in an effort...
Kenya will become a regional hub for medical equipment, which will help neighboring countries get required medicines faster.
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
By Ngusale Imali The presidency in Kenya continues to be the most coveted political position in the country, and, in its earnest, the socio-political atmosphere in...
Rwanda will host the new African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a venture by the African Development Bank (AfDB) that is expected to boost the continent’s access to...
Reuters | Africa must wean itself off dependence on food and medicine imports, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said, as the institution approved...
By Imali Ngusale The 5th of June was set aside by the African Union (AU) to observe and commemorate the Day of the African Child (within...
By Gregory Simpkins The Corporate Council on Africa recently hosted a briefing in Washington by United Nations High Representative for Infrastructure. Raila Odinga, a Kenyan politician...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s wheat output will jump 70 percent this year as the populous Horn of Africa nation ramps up production to shelter itself from supply...
By Gregory Simpkins Many people who are not familiar with international affairs see situations as strictly black and white; villain and victim. While there is some...
AFP | More than 2,300 delegates from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party converged on the capital Abuja ahead of a key primary election on...
Bloomberg | Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who’s running for president for a fifth time, drew ahead of rival candidate Deputy President William Ruto in an...
Reuters | Deaths on the African continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, modelling by the...
AP | Gambia’s government is setting up a special prosecutor’s office to investigate for severe human rights violations and potentially charge former dictator Yahya Jammeh, who...
Reuters | Ghana has started a bulk purchase initiative to buy gold locally to raise the gold component of its reserves, Central Bank Governor Ernest Addison...
By Leah Lynch Yesterday the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) released their eagerly awaited International Development Strategy. It has been an agonizing wait; the...
Reuters | Nigerian entrepreneur Mustapha Gajibo has been converting petrol mini-buses into electric vehicles at his workshop, but he is now going a step further to...
Legislators in Cuba’s parliament have declared that the Spanish speaking Communist island will observe May 25 as Africa Day to celebrate the roots and formation of...
Reuters | Ghana is committed to managing its debt without assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said, expressing his confidence that...
Bloomberg | Standard Bank Group Ltd. has named a female Black person to chair Africa’s biggest lender by assets for the first time. Nonkululeko Nyembezi has...
Reuters | Africa’s top public health body urged all those purchasing COVID-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, saying the...
The two fastest-growing companies in Africa are in Kenya, according to a new ranking released by the Financial Times on Tuesday, and 5 of the top...
Reuters | Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Sunday his government would hike the country’s minimum wage by 12 percent immediately to help workers cope with...
Farmerline Group has secured a US$6.4 million Pre-Series A investment and US$6.5 million debt to strengthen its supply chain for agribusinesses; reduce the cost of farming,...
The Central African Republic has become the first country in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as a payment currency. In a worldwide first, the National Assembly unanimously...
Kenya’s former president, Mwai Kibaki, has died at the age of 90, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. He was president of Kenya from 2003 to 2013....
Reuters | Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) President Alassane Ouattara has named Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, governor of the West African central bank, as his vice president in...
Reuters | Ugandan film producer Raymond Malinga, whose work will feature in an upcoming Disney anthology of animated films from across Africa, hopes the project will...
AP | Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Monday that he will run for president in next year’s election. Osinbajo, 65, formally declared his intention to...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced a new multi-billion-dollar initiative to help member countries battle soaring import costs and foreign currency challenges stemming from the...
Late last year, venture capitalist Adeyemi Ajao traveled back to his native Spain to tend to his 92-year-old father. The elder Ajao asked his son about...
AFP | Former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré has been jailed for life for his role in the assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 35 years...
AFP | Nigeria’s government has lifted a nationwide midnight curfew and limitations on gatherings along with other restrictions imposed more than 2 years ago to curb...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
Reuters | Dangote’s 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil refinery being built in Nigeria is due to begin production by the fourth quarter of 2022, Group...
Reuters | Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament on Wednesday voted to remove Economy Minister Jean-Marie Kalumba from his post, blaming him for the soaring price of...
Press Release | Russom Woldemichael, owner and founder of shoe and leather goods company Barcon Getta, knows that a journey of a thousand miles begins with...
AP | Zimbabwe has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination campaign that includes jabbing children aged 12 and above to rescue a drive faltering due to vaccine...
Reuters | Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote opened a 3-million-tonne fertilizer plant at a cost of US$2.5 billion on Tuesday to target African and foreign markets even...
The East African | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will officially be admitted to the East Africa Community (EAC) next week, adding a 90...
Reuters | Ethiopia said on Friday it had decided to postpone the planned partial privatization of state-owned telecoms firm Ethio Telecom because of the prevailing economic...
By Charles Ray For too long in the West, primarily the United States and Western Europe, the continent of Africa has been viewed as peripheral to...
AP | The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is “sustainable...
Reuters | Nigerian court has stopped Shell Plc from selling any assets in Nigeria until a decision is reached on the company’s appeal of a nearly...
Reuters | Former Zambian President Rupiah Banda, 85, died at home on Friday after a short battle with colon cancer, his family and the presidency said....
Reuters | Kenya lifted its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, including a ban on large indoor gatherings such as religious services and a requirement to present...
AFP | US vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it would build its first mRNA jab-manufacturing facility in Africa after signing an agreement with Kenya’s government...
Reuters | A company controlled by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler will give control of valuable mining and oil assets back to the Democratic Republic of Congo...
AFP | Nigeria’s electoral body said Saturday it was postponing the 2023 presidential and parliamentary polls by one week, due to a delay in passing a...
Google, in its latest “Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021“, has revealed that Africa’s tech developer ecosystem is on the rise. This is according to the findings...
Reuters | Operator TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil and associated gas off the coast of Namibia, the company said on Thursday. Two...
By John M. Mugane Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is...
Bloomberg | A Kenyan technology company, MarketForce, raised US$40 million in a funding round led by V8 Capital Partners of Nigeria to expand its digital retail-distribution...
By Weiwei Chen Common perceptions about Chinese engagement in Africa are that it is one-dimensional and sometimes biased. One common problem with this perception is the...
AFP | Ethiopia will start generating power from its “controversial” mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
Reuters | Africa-focused fintech firm Flutterwave said on Wednesday it had raised US$250 million in its single-biggest funding round to date, valuing the startup at more...
By Edson Mpyisi Last month, there was a hue and cry in Kenya when the multinational food corporation, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), ran out of fries...
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum Yibeltal Aemero Alemu said Sudan and Ethiopia reached an agreement to peacefully resolve the border dispute. Yibeltal did not specify when bilateral...
AFP | Angola has recovered assets worth more than US$11 billion that had been looted from state coffers and stashed in countries around the world, the...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s central bank has a new plan to lure US$200 billion of inflows to Africa’s biggest economy: make it attractive for exporters to bring...
"Over the past two years, the African continent has gotten smarter, faster and better at responding to each new surge in cases of COVID-19." - Matshidiso...
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The AU is often at the heart of agenda-setting, decision-making, rule creation, policy development and strategic leadership for the African continent.
Reuters | Ethiopian Airlines is due to resume flying the Boeing 737 MAX plane on Tuesday, but opinions are divided on the airline’s first flight using...
"Let us talk from the heart how to foster greater collaboration between Africa and the Caribbean and the role we all have to play." - Tony...
AP | West African neighbor states on Friday suspended Burkina Faso in the aftermath of this week’s coup, making it the third nation in the regional...
Chakwera dissolved his entire cabinet this week, saying some ministers had to account for graft accusations made against them.
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s council of ministers lifted a state of emergency in the Horn of Africa nation on Wednesday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said. “The...
The Nigerian capital managed to outperform its direct competitors Nairobi, Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2021, a trend that is likely to continue.
AFP | World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is all but guaranteed a second term after a procedural vote on Tuesday (January 25) made...
Press Release | Morehouse College has launched the Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI), a pioneering initiative to study the economic, social, cultural, and personal outcomes of...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year. Mechanical work on the refinery is complete...
The February African Union summit should tackle vaccines and travel bans, climate change misperceptions and AU financing.
The trains will ease traffic in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital
Barrow promises economic progress after he is sworn in for second presidential term
Press Release | After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave driven primarily by the Omicron variant is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in...
Reuters | The vice president of Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament Jean-Marc Kabund resigned on Friday over what he described as “bullying”, “humiliation” and “torture”. Kabund,...
AP | The director of Africa’s Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said the organization is talking to Pfizer about bringing its COVID-19 treatment pill to...
The target is to reach 75 percent of the population by June this year.
AFP | Nigeria’s ruling party chief and influential former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Monday he intends to run for the presidency in the...
Kenya is set to lead the world’s peer to peer cryptocurrency market for the second consecutive year according to Marius Reitz, the general manager for the...
West African community imposes additional sanctions on Mali
African governments should avoid the zero-sum trap - especially when dealing with US-Chinese rivalry and adopt strategies that strategically play rivals against each other and implement...
Reuters | Africa’s top public health official said on Thursday that severe lockdowns were no longer the best way to contain COVID-19, praising South Africa for...
By Hippolyte Fofack More than 20,000 Africans were killed in violent conflicts in 2020, an almost tenfold increase from a decade ago. Concurrently, and perhaps not...
Africa is emerging as the next big retail hotspot
Reuters | Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, 6 weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup...
Reuters | Research by South African scientists suggests that Omicron could displace the Delta variant of the coronavirus because infection with the new variant boosts immunity...
AP | Gambia’s former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, should face prosecution for murder, torture and sexual violence, according to a new report by a truth, reconciliation and...
AFP | A Madagascan minister was one of 2 survivors to have swum some 12 hours to shore Tuesday after their helicopter crashed off the island’s...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US$1.5 million grant to assess policy gaps in the digital trade and e-commerce...
AFP | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) said Thursday that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with...
Enabling Africa’s digital transformation requires homegrown enterprise solutions that address the continent’s unique realities.
"There will be no fatality, nor oil curse, or ruinous competition if there is political will to cooperate across the board" - Macky Sall
Opibus is the first company to make the vehicles in Africa.
Other strong performers include East African neighbors, Kenya and Tanzania, as well as Namibia and Egypt.
Reuters | Nigeria plans to ban flights from Argentina, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia from this week in retaliation for being added to those countries’ red...
The Bahamas government has reversed its policy of imposing travel restrictions on persons coming from certain African countries, indicating that the decision had been taken due...
Our health team has advised that it is not necessary at this time to impose a travel ban on South African countries - St. Kitts &...
Press Release | Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of...
By Max Walter Industrial policy is seeing a revival in Africa and beyond. In fact, governments across the continent are now explicitly using a variety of...
The Chinese as colonizer trope has been repeated too often and information about Africa is too scant for most people to analyze these news stories correctly.
Reuters | Senegal’s economy will grow 5 percent in 2021 thanks in part to solid industrial output, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday, revising...
Remittance inflows to sub-Saharan Africa grew by 6.2 percent to US$45 billion this year
Central Bank planning to introduce CBDC - will cut transaction costs and boost participation in the formal financial system
All OADC facilities will operate as fully open-access, carrier-neutral facilities, supporting cloud providers and the international wholesale community in extending their businesses further into Africa.
The final decision will now be made by the East African Community Heads of State Summit at a later date.
Reuters | After a century and a half hidden in private collections, 13 stolen Ethiopian artefacts have finally returned home following months of negotiations. “Our country’s...
The WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world”.
Reuters |Nigeria will start a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign later this week, aiming to inoculate half of its targeted population by the end of January, government...
Cash will be used to fund African expansion to Egypt, Ghana and Cameroon
Representatives of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, known as CEMAC, have reached an important milestone in their efforts to put an end to roaming...
Bloomberg | Safaricom Plc., first-half profit jumped as the company reinstated charges on mobile-money transfers, Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa told investors Wednesday. Africa’s second-biggest company...
China in many ways needs Africa to become the world’s largest manufacturing hub. With a growing youth population, providing concessional loans to African governments for the...
As negotiators at the Glasgow climate talks try to agree on greenhouse gas cuts, African leaders say poorer countries can’t be expected to remake their systems...
New capital is designed as a high-tech "smart city", will ease congestion in Cairo.
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
By David Walwyn The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the...
By Hisham Eldardiry Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on...
Nigeria joins the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in being among the first jurisdictions in the world to roll out national digital currencies.
In many cases, the ICC’s pattern of inconsistently pursuing cases has also made it seem like a partisan institution among post-conflict communities, a perception that politicizes...
"If there is anything, we have learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic is the essence of self-reliance" - Uhuru Kenyatta
By David Thomas Africa’s film and audiovisual industry could create over 20 million jobs and an extra US$20 billion in annual revenues with further investment, according...
With less than a year to go to the end of his term, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta is worrying about the legacy he will leave behind...
Compaoré is charged with complicity, undermining state security and concealing corpses
AFP | Guinea’s new prime minister Mohamed Beavogui on Thursday promised to follow a plan to restore civilian rule set out by the West African state’s...
Forum looks to build on the increasingly close economic relations that have been forged between China and Africa over the last 20 years.
Economies of Angola, Nigeria and South Africa were expected to come out of recession this year.
AFP | As Desmond Tutu turns 90 on Thursday, he remains indisputably the moral voice of South Africa. But age is catching up with him. The...
We have to find ways of also creating opportunities for investment for African businesses who want to invest in the Caribbean, and also for Caribbean businesses...
Global intellectual property rights system constraining Africa's industrialization - Wamkele Mene
Mobile wallet payments are highest in usage as well as preference in Kenya.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has warned the 54-member Commonwealth that it risks being divided over the re-election of the incumbent Secretary General, Patricia Scotland. “Our Commonwealth...
If the Western campaign to ban funding for projects based on fossil fuels in developing countries while continuing to use them itself is any indication, there...
The survivors were carted off in cattle trucks to concentration camps in Swakopmund, Lüderitz, and Windhoek, where many were beaten and raped, and thousands died from...
ECOWAS reaffirmed its opposition to any political changes by unconstitutional means and condemn in strongest terms, this coup.
Expected outcomes could include greater economic trade and investment opportunities between Africa and the Caribbean
Zuma has been granted medical parole, after serving two months of a 15-month sentence for contempt of court.
The opportunities to partner with Africa and a market of an estimated 1.4 billion people are immense. As we seek to advance an agenda for a...
Vaccine production within the continent is seen as key to meeting the stated target of vaccinating 60 percent of Africa’s population
Reuters | Nigeria will work with Bitt Inc as a technical partner in its bid to launch its own cryptocurrency, the “eNaira”, the Central Bank said...
Citizens cannot be forced to wait in order to have reliable energy and live modern, dignified lives
Kenya’s dominance however has historically been tested by Ethiopians. More recently, the challenge comes from the emergence of Uganda, cementing the place of East Africa as...
Hichilema takes over an economy buckling under record levels of external debt
No other startup whose operations are based in Africa has raised as much in one round
The southern African country is beginning to see a reduction in numbers of infections
Hichilema defeated outgoing President Edgar Lungu in a landslide by almost 1 million votes.
Vaccination drive comes as the country is battling a resurgence of COVID-19.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has partnered with Bergman, Ross and Partners Incorporated (BRP) to provide medical diagnostic services to thousands of Ghanaians. According to information...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law an oil overhaul bill that has been in the works for nearly two decades, a presidential spokesman said on...
Zambian President Edgar Lungu conceded defeat on Monday, after a landslide election win by opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, who will face the challenge of reviving an...
There is a need to inspire, empower and motivate young people to innovate in different segments of agricultural activity.
Digital currency will be tested in a trial phase with banks, payment service providers and consumers
MVX wants to make freight shipping and trade finance easier for African businesses by bringing booking and deployment processes online.
Africa is increasingly and gradually becoming more competitive investment destination for decades to come because of its improving relative risk profiles, demography, and continental integration.
Ignorance about Africa-China is a convenient way to keep the focus on China, while not acknowledging the toxicity of the actual Africa-West relationship, or to reckon...
AFP | South Sudan on Monday swore in hundreds of lawmakers to a newly created national parliament, a long overdue condition of a fragile peace deal...
Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to expand 4.1 percent next year, as economies recover from the pandemic
Those of us interested in advancing sustainable development in Africa need to find ways to broaden and deepen engagement and conversation around critical issues and create...
Reuters | A project in Kenya is using biogas technology to tackle two major pollution problems with one device: a machine that converts waste such as...
Obama will have a minority equity stake in NBA Africa
AP | In a major breakthrough for one of the world’s last countries to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, Tanzania’s president kicked off the nation’s vaccination campaign Wednesday...
"Mission will serve as CARICOM's platform in Africa with a mandate to develop beneficial relations with all countries on the African continent."
Nigerian delegation visits the University to observe progress, research capabilities in preparation for More than 80 Doctoral and Postdoctoral candidates in Fall 2021
Ouattara, has officially welcomed Gbagbo's return, seeing it as a key to easing the country's entrenched problems.
AP | The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 as it is...
Countries are not slaves to the past. With the right institutional framework and policies, like Botswana, they can overcome the history of colonialism and the curse...
Government discussing paying basic income grant says Ramaphosa
Red alert meant that states "should fully deploy all COVID-19 prevention and containment measures in place" and intensify "testing, identification, treatment and isolation of infected persons
Team is expected to advise government on policy, legislation and guidelines to enable the technology to be used effectively.
Reuters | U.N. Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a...
Eunice Mgcina named acting mayor
Bloomberg | Uganda aims to inoculate 22 million people, about half of its population, to enable the economy to fully re-open, and is setting aside Ugsh560...
Rebellious young people aren't a threat - they're the key to democratic reform
AP | A South African regional court is to rule Friday on whether it will block an order by the country’s highest court for the arrest...
Africa is the second least affected region of the world
Dangote Group will double cement production in Cameroon
AFP | Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, who returned home last month a decade after falling from power, will meet ex-president Henri Konan Bedie this...
Kaunda is to be buried on July 7
The dependent on pharmaceutical imports leaves Africans vulnerable to shortages of medication. More local manufacturing of medications could strengthen health systems throughout the continent.
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana together account for 65 percent of global cocoa production; Farmers in these two countries earn less than 6 percent of the chocolate...
Ruling sets a precedent for South Africa and benchmark for the continent
Hassan has been very clear on the need for good, friendly, conducive and supporting business environment and investment climate
The country is emerging from decades of economic sanctions and isolation under ousted former President Omar al-Bashir
Piloting of payment system in 6 West African countries is going on very well and by the end of the year, it would be fully rolled...
The facility will be capable of producing a maximum 10,000 vials a day of COVID-19 vaccines
AFP | Mauritania’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Tuesday jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption probe ordered his incarceration, his...
Project should provide access to power to all Mozambicans
Intra-African trade provides a compelling opportunity to move away from reliance on exports of raw materials and develop the continent’s economies
More than 9,000 candidates are running this time - more than in any previous vote
Group of 15 West African countries have adopted a new road map to launch a single currency in 2027 after previous plans derailed by COVID-19 pandemic.
