By ARNALDO VIEIRA Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi has granted pardon to 25 citizens who were allegedly members of a terrorist group which has been staging attacks in the northern province of Cabo Delgado since 2017. The 25 citizens were who were pardoned in a ceremony held in Nampula province Wednesday were said to have been…
WINDHOEK, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Namibia has provisionally agreed on a deal with the European Union to sell its rare earth minerals, critical to the renewable energy sectors, mines and energy minister Tom Alweendo said on Thursday. EU and Namibian officials told Reuters in July they were planning a deal on hydrogen and minerals as the bloc works…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that the war in the northern Tigray region “will end and peace will prevail”. He made the remarks on Thursday when he inaugurated a talent development centre in Oromia regional state. “The situation in northern Ethiopia will come to an end, peace will prevail. We will not continue…
Fighting resumed between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army and the M23 rebels on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in the Rutshuru territory of North Kivu province. A local journalist, Alain Mirova, has told the BBC that “many people are fleeing” hostilities, after weeks of calm in the area. A local civil society group is…
Morocco fans gathered Thursday (Oct 20) to support their team near the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup countdown clock as it marked thirty days left before the tournament, in the Qatari capital Doha. Team anthems and jerseys: no doubt Moroccan fans in Qatar are getting in the World Cup mood. Supporters gathered Thursday next to…
By PATRICK ILUNGA There has been confusion in Kinshasa after Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi named a dead commander to a new role in the ongoing military reforms. A presidential decree read out on national television (RTNC), had named Maj-Gen Floribert Kisembo, as the new head of military operations in North Equateur Province,…
By NATION AFRICA Canadian-based Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna, who has been exiled since 2018, has finally returned to the country. Dr Miguna arrived Thursday morning at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport aboard a Kenya Airways flight. He was deported following his role in the swearing-in of opposition chief Raila Odinga as the “people’s president” in…
LONDON/JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Sub-Saharan African banks are increasingly worried about funding costs, an annual survey published on Wednesday found, as soaring interest rates both on the continent and globally make financing more expensive. The cost of local currency funding was now the top worry for Sub-Saharan Africa’s banks, according to a survey by the European…
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters) – South Africa’s financial watchdog has classified cryptocurrency assets as financial products, a notice in the government gazette said on Wednesday, enabling them to be regulated. In the brief notice, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) said a crypto asset, which it referred to as “a digital representation of value”, must be regulated…
Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby declared a state of emergency on Wednesday over flooding that is affecting more than a million people in the central African country. Floods are not uncommon during Chad‘s rainy season, which usually runs from May to October in its southern regions. But this year the rains came early and were the…