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Terrorism: Macron sets fresh condition to retain France-West African troops
By News desk
France President Emmanuel Macron has demanded that West African leaders dismiss growing anti-French sentiment within the sub-region if they wanted his country’s military to continue their operations against Islamist…
Six-year-old boy crush to death by unlicensed driver
By News Desk
A six-year-old boy who was cycling home has been crushed to death by an unlicensed female driver in Beitbridge, Zimbabwe.
It was gathered that the unlicensed driver, 29-year-old, Anna Mthunzi, was driving along a dusty…
Zimbabwe’s crisis bites harder as UN deploys 4.1m food aides
By News Desk
The United Nations has disclosed that it was procuring food assistance for 4.1 million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the population in a country where shortages are being exacerbated by runaway inflation and climate-induced…
Namibian state fishing firm suspends CEO over corruption
By News Desk
Namibia’s state-owned fishing firm, Fishcor, has suspended its chief executive following media reports that he and other government officials conspired with Iceland’s biggest fishing company to receive kickbacks in exchange…
Egypt gets $1.1 bln ITFC loan to import fuel, other commodities
By News Desk
Egyptian petroleum and supply ministries, on Wednesday, disclosed that International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide $1.1 billion to assist the country fund importation of petroleum products and basic…
U.N. raises concerns over South Sudan ethnic violence, deploys s troops
By News Desk
Worried by the rising figures of casualties, the United Nations has sent a contingent of peacekeepers to an area of central South Sudan where about 80 people have been killed in a bout of fighting between two ethnic…
UN, AU, AfDB launch food security group for Africa
By Olawale Abdul-Fatah
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), have launched the agriculture and food security joint Thematic Working Group (TWG).…
U.S. mulls Sudan removal from terrorist sponsor list
By News desk
The United States no longer has an adversarial relationship with the Sudanese government and is working with its counterparts on the possibility of removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a senior State…
Inequality, Poverty still Africa’s major challenges- ECA
By News Desk
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has disclosed that eradicating extreme poverty and reduce inequality still remain Africa’s biggest challenges.
ECA's Director of the Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division,…
Algerian court jails 21 protesters
By News desk
Barely a month before the Algerian Presidential election, a court in Algeria has sentenced 21 protesters to six months in imprisonment for engaging in actions that undermined the country's national unity.
The verdict by…