The Cardano Foundation has made a donation to the project “Trust”, for an illustrated novel to raise awareness of the power of the Blockchain for the African continent. The illustrated novel is scheduled to be published in 2021. As announced yesterday, the Cardano Foundation has made a donation of an unknown amount to ADA for the illustrated novel “Trust”,…
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s allies from Central will this Saturday hold crucial talks even as DP William Ruto plans to storm the region for a series of rallies. Ruto’s Sunday tour of Murang’a county is the first since falling out with his boss and being shoved from the heart of government operations. Curiously, Ruto will be…
KHARTOUM – Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has left the capital Khartoum heading to South Sudan’s capital Juba, ahead of the signing ceremony for landmark peace agreement with armed opposition groups. A peace process which began last year has resulted into an agreement that is believed to end decades-long devastating conflicts between the ruling…
Major Ashif is tense as he watches from the turret of his armoured vehicle as the muddy road in front of him slowly unwinds. His is the lead vehicle in a UN escort shepherding a convoy through northwest Central African Republic (CAR), one of the world’s poorest and most violent countries — and the thick…
South Africa will reopen its borders to all African countries from Thursday while barring tourists from around 50 nations with high coronavirus infection rates, the government said on Wednesday. The continent’s most industrialised economy shuttered its borders at the start of a strict nationwide lockdown on March 27 to limit the spread of the virus.…
Nigeria last month lifted a ban on attending religious gatherings “Things are getting back to normal, even though it will never be like it was before,” says a relieved Petunia Maseko, relaxing in a bar in South Africa’s Soweto township. Africa has weathered the coronavirus pandemic relatively well in terms of infections and deaths, though…
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Africa lost billions in illicit financial flows including through tax evasion and theft: UN report Africa has lost nearly $89bn a year in illicit financial flows such as tax evasion and theft, amounting to more than it receives in development aid, a United Nations study has showed. The estimate, in the United Nations Conference on…
As deliberations and ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) continues, the president of Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN), Dr Mark George Onyung, has said that Nigeria would benefit from over $900 billion daily global shipping business. Onyung, who disclosed this at the weekend in Lagos, during a meeting with the visiting…
Mali’s transitional president appointed former minister of foreign affairs, Moctar Ouane, on Sunday as the West African nation’s prime minister days after being sworn into office. The appointment of a civilian prime minister was a major condition imposed by the West African regional economic bloc, ECOWAS, on Mali to lift sanctions that were imposed after…