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Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the country is ready to host the upcoming 28th African Union (AU) Summit which comes off in the capital, Addis Ababa.
The Pre-Summit meetings have been going on since early this week but the …
Continue readingZimbabwe authorities offered residential land to government employees in lieu of annual bonuses, unions said on Thursday, rejecting a proposal that suggests the cash squeeze gripping the country is unlikely to ease this year.
The southern African nation’s economy stagnated …
Continue readingUganda is negotiating a $2.3 billion loan with China’s Exim Bank to fund an initial 273 km stretch of rail line the east African country is planning to build for faster and cheaper transportation, an official said on Thursday.
Landlocked …
Continue readingTanzania will receive a $305 million loan from the World Bank to expand its main port in it main commercial city Dar es Salaam, where congestion and inefficiencies are hampering ambitions to transform the east African nation into a regional …
Continue readingSomalian authorities have set February 8, 2017 as the new date for the presidential elections which have been postponed four times since last year.The electoral commission announced the new date in a statement on Wednesday.
The reason for the postponements …
Continue readingI was at the local airport in Lagos waiting to board a flight to Abuja when a social media friend I was meeting for the first time told me he was going to reach out to me and some young …
Continue readingThe African continent is home to only one fully fledged democracy, Mauritius, according to a recently released index from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list, which takes into account things like electoral procedures, civil liberties, and political participation, classified seven …
Continue readingThe African continent is home to only one fully fledged democracy, Mauritius, according to a recently released index from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list, which takes into account things like electoral procedures, civil liberties, and political participation, classified seven …
Continue readingThe crisis started after former president Yahya Jammeh refused to accept the results of the Gambia’s December 2016 elections. Last week, on 21 January, Jammeh finally agreed to step down and go into exile. This averted a possible military confrontation …
Continue readingPresident Museveni and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have agreed on the plan to make River Nile a transportation highway to the Mediterranean Sea to reduce import-export costs.
President Museveni said at the signing of a memorandum of understanding …
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