Western Sahara: UNSC draft resolution positive for Morocco
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday examined a new resolution aimed at ending the decades-long, multi-pronged dispute over the ultimate status of Western Sahara. […]
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Guinea-Bissau: ECOWAS sends strong message to rival factions
The regional 16-member bloc ECOWAS on Tuesday vowed to impose targeted sanctions against officials in the West-African Portuguese speaking nation, Guinea-Bissau, as the country failed […]
Kenya, Ghana and Malawi to Pilot world’s first malaria vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that the first vaccine against malaria, Mosquirix, was developed by GlaxoSmithKline and that pilot tests on children […]
Germany pushes for private investment in Africa
The German government is moving to boost private investment in Africa, Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told reporters in Washington during the Global Infrastructure Forum. According […]
AfDB questions Africa’s annual $35bn food importation
African Development Bank’s president, Akinwumi Adesina on Thursday lamented the negative effects that huge food imports had on the African continent. Speaking at the Center […]
DRC: MONUSCO airlifted 3,900 tonnes of election materials
Election materials distribution has kicked-off in 15 election centres in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Wednesday. The United Nations Mission in the […]
U.N. expresses concern over rampant insecurity in Burundi
United Nations Human Rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged officials in Burundi to end the impunity of the government-allied militia called the […]
Tunisia: Economy expected to recover in 2017 – PM
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Sunday indicated that the economy will start to regain growth in 2017 as the North African Nation revived its […]
Libya: HoR and boycotting PC member slams Serraj for calling foreign intervention
Libya’s internationally recognised Parliament; House of Representatives has charged nominal Prime Minister Faiez Serraj for calling for foreign intervention in the south of the country […]
DRC to finance polls with internal resources– PM
The new Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bruno Tshibala on Wednesday indicated that the central African mineral-rich nation will organise next […]