JUBA, South Sudan The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a grant of $14 million to South Sudan for boosting agriculture and reduce the nation’s dependence on oil. During the MoU signing ceremony on Wednesday, AfDB representative Benedict Sorie Kanu said the grant will support the Agricultural Markets, Value Addition and Trade Development (AMVAT) project…
African countries face daunting task arranging huge finances to vaccinate 60% population. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ethiopia is planning to vaccinate 20% of its population against the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2021, said the country’s top health expert. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Muluken Yohannes, a senior adviser to the Health Ministry, said a national…
Tunisia’s president stands firm in his opposition to a cabinet reshuffle, suggesting he would not let the 11 new ministers take the oath of office. Tunisia’s parliament last month had approved a Cabinet reshuffle that deepened the conflict between the prime minister and the president, **”We are ready for all the solutions but I I…
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry reiterated Egypt’s stance on the importance of reaching a legally binding agreement concerning the Ethiopian dam Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed with his Portuguese counterpart, Augusto Santos Silva, the latest developments related to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), stressing Egypt’s stance based on the…
By Bob Dewar Associate Fellow, Africa Programme The pandemic took the spotlight off climate change in Africa, despite 2020 seeing warming temperatures, rising sea levels, and extreme, erratic weather events. 2020 saw time lost and meetings postponed. But the lead-up to the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November (COP26) brings…
Synopsis The WLP now looks forward to welcoming the participation of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry to represent the government’s oversight of local operations, and the CBIC (Customs) as a partner, as well as other regional organisations, it stated. MUMBAI : The World Logistics Passport (WLP), which aims at increasing trading opportunities between…
Despite the pandemic, most countries stuck to their polling schedules in 2020. Despite a fragile security situation, Central Africans overwhelmingly exercised their civic duty by going to polling centers and casting their votes. Central African Republic and in Niger held their presidential and parliamentary elections on 27 December 2020 to round up a challenging year…
Tanzania’s health ministry says it has no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines, just days after the president of the country of 60 million people expressed doubt about the vaccines without offering evidence. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima told a press conference in the capital, Dodoma, on Monday that “the ministry has no plans to receive…
Hard-hit South Africa received its first shipments of coronavirus vaccine doses, with up to 2 million expected to be delivered by March. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that his country had secured a total of 12 million doses of coronavirus vaccines through the international COVAX program. Approximately 2 million of those doses…
Luanda Angolan security officials killed several separatists protesting in the country’s northeast over the weekend, authorities and rights defenders said, raising fresh concerns over a long-standing culture of police brutality. The crackdown took place against an unauthorised demonstration in the diamond mining town of Cafunfo in the remote Luanda Norte province, around 750 kilometres east…