The final years of the eradication effort, led by the US’s Carter Center, will be the ‘most difficult’, expert says. Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year, according to the Carter Center in the United States. After decades of progress, Adam Weiss, director of The Carter Center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program,…
France maintains 400 special forces in West African country James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda Burkina Faso has decided to end a military pact that allowed French troops in the country because it is in line with the transition government’s vision for the Burkinabe people to defend their country, government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo said Monday. In 2018,…
Raila Odinga tells thousands at political rally that election last August was stolen from him Andrew Wasike NAIROBI, Kenya Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga told thousands of his supporters Monday at the Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi that he does not recognize William Ruto as the country’s president. Odinga said the presidential election in August last…
South Africa is a member of BRICS, a bloc of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India and China Hassan Isilow JOHANNESBURG South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor on Monday defended her country’s decision to hold a joint naval exercise with Russia and China next month off its east coast. “All countries conduct military exercises…
Prabashini Moodley | @SABCNews South African business owners say they possibly face closure as a result of constant power cuts. Business owners in Johannesburg say with the increased cost of running generators, they are burning through profits and remaining open is unsustainable. One business owner says, “It’s the same for every small business out there. You have…
Cooper InveenReuters ACCRA, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Ghana’s government and the Ghana Association of Banks (GAB) have agreed on new terms for banks to participate in a domestic debt exchange plan, they said in a joint statement on Monday. The government has agreed to pay a 5% coupon on its 2023 bonds, which the original debt exchange plan…
By Andrea Shalal and Carien Du PlessisReuters KEY POINTS Biden administration pledges renewed trade, investment U.S.-Africa relations damaged by Trump years China and Russia also vying for influence U.S. rate hikes hurting African economies LUSAKA, Jan 24 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s three-country trip to Africa – the leading edge of a new diplomatic push…
By Cecilia MacaulayBBC News Next month voters in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, will head to the polls to select their next president amid mounting unhappiness in the country due to worsening insecurity and economic hardship. Will any of the frontrunners, most of whom have been in the political system for decades, be able to…
By Rédaction Africanews SOUTH SUDAN Ahead of the visit of Pope Francis, the Vatican ‘Technical Advanced Team’ have been welcomed in Juba, South Sudan. They are there to assess the preparation for the Papal visit which will take place from February 3 to 5. Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, Metropolitan Archbishop of Juba on Tuesday said…
Reginald Witbooi | @SABCNews Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi is to visit the four farms on Monday where people died in the Kakamas region in the Northern Cape due to heatstroke. Seven farm workers died last week amid the persistent heat wave gripping most parts of the country. Temperatures over the past few weeks in the region peaked…