Nigeria last month lifted a ban on attending religious gatherings “Things are getting back to normal, even though it will never be like it was before,” says a relieved Petunia Maseko, relaxing in a bar in South Africa’s Soweto township. Africa has weathered the coronavirus pandemic relatively well in terms of infections and deaths, though…
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Africa lost billions in illicit financial flows including through tax evasion and theft: UN report Africa has lost nearly $89bn a year in illicit financial flows such as tax evasion and theft, amounting to more than it receives in development aid, a United Nations study has showed. The estimate, in the United Nations Conference on…
As deliberations and ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) continues, the president of Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN), Dr Mark George Onyung, has said that Nigeria would benefit from over $900 billion daily global shipping business. Onyung, who disclosed this at the weekend in Lagos, during a meeting with the visiting…
Mali’s transitional president appointed former minister of foreign affairs, Moctar Ouane, on Sunday as the West African nation’s prime minister days after being sworn into office. The appointment of a civilian prime minister was a major condition imposed by the West African regional economic bloc, ECOWAS, on Mali to lift sanctions that were imposed after…
BENGHAZI, Libya (Sputnik) – Foreign Minister Abdul Hadi al-Huweij of Libya’s eastern-based administration has inspected oilfields and ports after the recent resumption of oil production and called on foreign investors to return to the country’s oil sector after a month-long hiatus, the foreign ministry said early on Friday. “Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation…
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (Republic of the), September 25, 2020/APO Group/ — There has been a 2% decrease in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the WHO African Region compared to the last reporting period. 83% of cases have recovered. For more detailed analysis, read our most recent COVID-19 Situation Report: https://bit.ly/32ZC3As 10 countries account for…
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi held talks in Cairo with Libyan putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar Wednesday. Aquila Saleh, speaker of the east Libya-based parliament and Egyptian spy chief Abbas Kamel were also present at the meeting. “During the meeting, el-Sissi was informed of developments in Libya and the efforts of all parties to implement a cease-fire…
After the distribution of voting cards which began last Saturday, Ecowas certified Guinea electoral register as ‘of sufficient quality’ for October elections. In total over five million voting cards should be handed out by the electoral commission CENI. The Guinean political scene was shaken up in late August when the current president Alpha Condé said…
The West African bloc ECOWAS will likely decide on Friday whether to lift potentially crippling sanctions imposed on Mali after last month’s coup, its mediator said. The mediator, Nigerian former president Goodluck Jonathan, called the 15-nation bloc’s sanctions “unfortunate” during a visit to Mali’s capital Bamako on Wednesday. West African leaders have heaped pressure on…