Four southern African nations are considering breaking away from the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to set up a parallel organization to allow trade in ivory. Tourism ministers from Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia and Botswana met on Friday to look at alternate strategies to CITES, Mangaliso Ndlovu, Zimbabwe’s environment and tourism minister,…
Kampala – “At the moment, you can drive from one corner of Uganda to another border on tarmac, mainly built by Chinese companies,” said Richard Todwong, deputy secretary general of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement party. The Belt and Road Initiative is embraced by economies because it connects people, and that is the beauty of…
Pollings stations opened in Ethiopia on Monday as Prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling Prosperity Party is widely expected to cement its hold on power. The party that wins a majority of seats in the House of Peoples’ Representatives will form the next government. Close to 40 million people have registered to take part in the…
Nothing but deception for South Africans who rushed KwaHlathi. After hearing a local herder had unearthed some mysterious stones in this small town of the Kwazulu-Natal province, thousands armed with pickaxes, shovels and sticks headed to the surroundings of the village in search of diamonds. But preliminary analysis of these said diamond shows the stones…
Although Togo reports relatively low numbers of 13,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 125 deaths, the West African nation has upheld strict emergency sanitary measures since April last year. A move that indirectly dealt a blow to its agriculture-dependent economy which relies heavily on cross-frontier trade. Togo’s western and eastern borders are only 50 kilometres apart…
Cape Town – Ninety percent of those who are going to be vaccinated in the approved centres in Cameroon are people from other nationalities living in that country, according to an Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) report. Many Cameroonians hold on to conspiracy theories and remain reluctant to take the Covid-19 vaccine, the EPI report…
The country is not currently in a position to hold free, fair and credible elections. Awol Allo Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University, UK. Feven Girmay Higher education researcher and administrator based in the US Ethiopia’s twice-deferred national elections are set to commence on June 21 despite the insurmountable challenges threatening to unravel not…
Former president of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda died peacefully at 2:30 pm (1230 GMT) on Thursday of pneumonia at a military hospital where the 97-year-old had been receiving treatment since Monday. The news comes by way of — as announced by the government which declared 21 days of national mourning as televised announced by Cabinet secretary Simon Miti.…
After ten years in exile abroad, the former president of Côte d’Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo touched down on home soil Thursday upon receiving permission to return from the government of longtime rival President Alassane Ouattara. After making his way down the steps to the runway, Gbagbo made his way to a vehicle that was then surrounded by crowds as…
Cheap renewables offer the key to universal electricity access in Africa. Across the globe, nearly 800 million people live without any access to electricity – about 600 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. In a world of deepening inequalities between the haves and have-nots, this is a glaring injustice. With cheap renewables and green investments…