Benin: President Talon Inaugurated
Patrice Talon winner of March 20 Presidential elections in Benin has taken oath at Porto Novo, the country’s political capital, on Wednesday. Known as one […]
Month: April 2016
S. Africa: Serial Child Rapist Gets 28 Life Sentences
The High Court of Johannesburg in South Africa on Monday, sentenced a 46-year-old man to 538 years behind bars for kidnapping, assaulting and raping children. […]
Mozambique Ailing Economy Gets Support from AfDB
The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday said it will disburse $1.7 billion to assist Mozambique, hard hit by the slump in commodity prices. The […]
Two Gitmo Prisoners to Resettle in Senegal
The US military announced on Monday that two detainees held for years without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison will be transferred to Senegal for […]
S. Sudan Introduces New Currency Denomination
South Sudan Central Bank on Monday introduced new currency denominations in the monetary system, replacing the 25 pound note with 20 pound and changed the […]
Egypt: Tourism Falls by almost 50%, Italy Announces Boycott
Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAMPAS) has revealed that the number of tourists in February fell by 45.9% compared to the same […]
Libya: GNA Freezes State Finances
The Government of National Accord (GNA) backed by the UN and most western countries announced that it was freezing government funds and that accessing the […]
CAR President Appoints New PM
The Central African Republic’s new president Faustin Archange Touadéra who took the oath of office last Wednesday in capital Bangui has named his former campaign […]
Ghana’s Peace Envied by Many Globally, President
By Emmanuel Vitus, Accra-Ghana Ghanaian president John Dramani Mahama on Sunday said the peace that Ghana enjoys is envied by many countries globally. He made […]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation Backs New Unity Gov’t
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Sunday said it is going to work with the UN-backed unity government that arrived in Tripoli last week. According […]