Sherwin Bryce-Pease | @SABCNews The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has urged a ramping up of efforts to harness the full potential of trade and industrialization in Africa in order to advance sustainable, inclusive growth. He was addressing the Africa Dialogue Series at the United Nations in the building up to Thursday’s Africa Day commemorations around…
Clashes between rival military factions broke out on Wednesday in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, residents said, threatening to shatter a fragile ceasefire designed to allow for the delivery of aid and create conditions for a more lasting truce. Text by : NEWS WIRES The ceasefire deal, which is being monitored by Saudi Arabia and the United States as well as the…
By Marina Daras BBC World Service Turkey’s influence in Africa has been growing massively over the past 20 years and whoever wins Sunday’s presidential run-off will have to consider where next to take the relationship. Ever since Recep Tayyip Erdogan took power in Turkey two decades ago, first as prime minister then as president, he…
By Rédaction Africanews Last updated: 1 hour ago OUSMANE SONKO Ousmane Sonko, the popular Senegalese opposition leader facing a rape trial, said Wednesday that he would lead a “caravan of freedom” across the country as he travels to face judges in Dakar. Sonko, who has a keen following among Senegal’s large youth population, has branded the trial…
By Rédaction Africanews SUDAN From the scorching summer heat to war profiteers and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Sudanese fleeing battles at home have encountered many obstacles — but also help from strangers — on the long road to safety in Egypt. Among the hundreds of refugee families waiting at the border, some had no passports. Others would…
The continent’s debt crisis is not of its making. And cutting back on public spending will only aggravate the problem. Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón Research fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town Thokozile Madonko Activist, poet, climate campaigner and research manager, Southern Center for Inequality Studies, Wits University. In…
Olivia Kumwenda-MtamboReuters The provincial health department in the South African province of Gauteng on Sunday announced 19 new cases of Cholera in Hammanskraal, including 10 deaths. South Africa reported its first cholera death in February, after the virus arrived in the country from Malawi. It was unclear how many cholera cases there was nationally as of Sunday, but…
Ruxandra IordacheCNBC KEY POINTS World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala advocated for diversification in global supply chains, identifying an “overconcentration of manufacturing in certain sectors in certain countries.” “Let’s look for those areas where we have the right environment, diversify and use that to bring them in from the margin into the global system,” she…
Jonathan Munemo As US allies respond with inward looking protection measures of their own and align with the US to create a global supply chain less reliant on China, worsening economic fragmentation could have far-reaching consequences for countries in Africa, writes Jonathan Munemo. For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page. The Biden administration has ratcheted…
By Catherine ByaruhangaAfrica correspondent, BBC News, Paloich It is the airport wait from hell. Paloich Airport, which usually buzzes with the sound of well-heeled workers serving South Sudan’s oil fields, has turned into a camp for thousands of people fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan – now more than a month old. There are no…