The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has appealed for $59 million to provide critical assistance to 2.5 million drought-affected people across Ethiopia in 2023.The IOM…

NBA Africa ​over the weekend​​​ donated a newly-refurbished indoor basketball court in Kigali, Rwanda to the Rwanda Basketball Federation (FERWABA).The court, which will benefit more…

South Africans are still struggling to come to terms with the fatal shooting of influential rapper Kiernan Forbes on Friday night.Forbes, also known as AKA…

Ethiopian Cargo and Logistics Services, Africa's largest network operator, has started two weekly freighter flights connecting Xiamen with São Paulo and Santiago via Addis Ababa.Ethiopian…

The Retreat of the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS) began in Lagos on Friday, February 10, 2023.The 4-Day retreat serves as a…

A total turnover of 944.293 million shares worth N22.710 billion (about $49.263m) in 18,615 deals was traded this week by investors on the floor of…

The African Development Bank has appointed Omar Sefiani as Acting Director of the Treasury Department, effective 1st November 2022.Sefiani is a Moroccan national and finance…

The Regional Workshop on placing women at centre of transition to a Green Economy in West Africa has ended in Senegal.The workshop, jointly organised by…

The ECOWAS Commission organized a Consultative Meeting on Regional Trade Policy Instruments in Lagos to deepen consultations with Member States as part of the formulation…

Sirius Capital has entered into an innovative partnership with fintech Julaya, which will provide Ivorians an opportunity to invest in the stock market directly via…

A female bodyguard of Sierra Leone's First Lady has died on Friday, four days after being involved in an accident along the main highway in…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council to oversee the 2023 transition programme on May 29, 2023.The statement by the…

Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance on Friday issued a Request for Proposal or RFP for the partial privatisation of of the state-owned Ethio-telecom.The tender aims to…

The small West African country is coming alive ahead of the first edition of the Benin International Arts Festival (FinAB) which will highlight big names…

The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $82.78 a barrel on Thursday, February 9, 2023, compared with $81.86 the previous day, according…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has for the first time in four months, delivered life-saving food and nutrition assistance to Rutshuru Territory, Eastern…

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) has applauded the decision by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare a national state of disaster over the country's…

The World Bank Group has notified the government of the resumption of disbursements, suspended since the September putsch, reports the weekly L'Economiste du Faso in…

The decision to suspend demonstration in areas targeted by jihadists was taken on February 7 by the chief administrative officer of Yelimane, in the region…

The report that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) supported the Bank of Ghana's financing of the government in 2022 as a crisis management tool to…

South Africa has declared a national state of disaster to solve the country's protracted energy crisis for which a Minister of Electricity has been appointed.Announcing…

UN-Habitat Mozambique has launched the new Habitat Country Programme Document (HCPD) for the 2022-2026 period with a total funding of USD 25 million.“The national ownership…

The report of the approval for the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council to oversee the 2023 transition programme by President Muhammadu Buhari dominates the…

More than 1,200 people have succumbed to cholera in Malawi since an outbreak first reported in March 2022 that has so far infected more than…

Nigeria's National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the February 25 presidential and…

The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $81.86 a barrel on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, compared with $80.50 the previous day, according…

Bühler Nigeria and the Swiss authorities are cooperating to expand the Trainee and Intern Development Program at Bühler's office in Lagos.The programme, which is supported…

The opposition Action South Africa (ActionSA) party has threatened legal action against the government's decision to grant Cape Town city authorities permission to discharge raw…

The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) in Guinea vows to defy a ban on public demonstrations and send its members on…

Observers fear that a merger between disparate former rebel groups will further complicate Mali's stalled peace process.The various components of the Coordination of Azawad Movements…

Traditional chiefs in Liberia have declared the banning of female genital mutilation as a harmful practise to women and girls, APA can report from Monrovia…

Morocco has deployed major security means around the organisation of the FIFA Club World Cup which is currently taking place in the kingdom. By our special…

Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea, which are all led by rulers who seized power in military coups, looked to have formed an unholy alliance against…

Under directives from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt has airlifted medical aid and equipment to quake-hit Türkiye and Syria amid an acute humanitarian crisis caused…

The invitation extended to foreign investors by Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Jinapor, to take advantage of the progres-sive fiscal and legislative…

Ireland and Austria have joined the African Development Bank's Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) with contributions of €2 million and €1 million, respectively, to support…

The countdown has begun for the 8th Forbes Africa Woman Leading Women Summit, taking place on 8 March 2023 (International Women's Day) in Pretoria, South…

A court has ordered Eswatini's largest newspaper to stop publishing a series of articles on alleged confessions in which two terror suspects have implicated some…

The optimism expressed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo that nothing will interfere with the successful conduct of the general elections scheduled for February 25…

Humanitarian agencies need $2.6 billion to help some 7.6 million people in Somalia this year, the UN and its partners announced Wednesday.After five consecutive bad…