Egypt pays $546 million to investors, companies’ overdrafts remaining
The Egyptian central bank under the new leadership of Governor Tarek Amer stated that it had repaid foreign investors the backlog of their stock and […]
Month: December 2015
Africa is ‘tired of being in the dark’ AfDB Boss tells Paris COP21 Summit
President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, who pledged to bring electricity to the poorest parts of the continent within a decade, said on […]
Cameroon: Twin suicide blast kills three
Twin suicide bombings killed at least three in northern Cameroon, in an overnight attack local and security officials said on Wednesday. According to L’Oeil du […]
Air France-KLM to make Abidjan a regional hub by 2025
Air France-KLM group on Tuesday said it expects to turn Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan into its West African regional hub within a decade. “In […]
Nobody is indispensable, US to Kagame
Two weeks after Rwanda’s upper house of parliament unanimously approved a constitutional amendment to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term, the United […]
Zambia launches $2 billion hydro-power project
Zambia has begun the construction of what it says is a major hydro-power project aimed at boosting the country’s electricity generation capacity, Xinhua news agency […]
Burundi: UN-Chief laid out options to address crisis
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday said deploying peacekeepers to Burundi was an option to quell the violence but recommended that a UN team be […]
Nigeria: Televangelist TB Joshua fails to appear in court
The controversial Nigerian televangelist – known as TB and two contractors facing trial for criminal negligence over a church building collapse that killed 116 worshippers […]
Burkina Faso: Roch Marc Kabore wins presidential vote
Roch Marc Kabore, who served as Prime Minister under ousted president Blaise Compaore, has been declared winner of the West African nation’s first free and […]