ADDIS ABABA, An African free-trade zone came into force on Thursday, a step toward creating what the African Union (AU) hopes will be a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth US$2.5 trillion.This is a historic milestone! tweeted Albert Mucha…
ADDIS ABABA, An African free-trade zone came into force on Thursday, a step toward creating what the African Union (AU) hopes will be a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth US$2.5 trillion.This is a historic milestone! tweeted Albert Mucha…
JUBA/WASHINGTON South Sudan’s government is reacting angrily to the United Nations Security Council’s move to renew sanctions on that country for another year, including an arms embargo. A South Sudan official warned continuing sanctions would weaken t…
ADDIS ABABA/WASHINGTON Editor’s note: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave his first interview in Amharic to a Western news organization when he spoke to the Voice of America’s Horn of Africa service reporter Eskinder Firew, Monday, May 27, in Addi…
KHARTOUM Protesters in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, have been holding a sit-in since April 6, demanding the military hand power to civilians. The demonstrators have been sustained through lengthy negotiations and armed attacks by donations of food and dr…
KHARTOUM Protesters in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, have been holding a sit-in since April 6, demanding the military hand power to civilians. The demonstrators have been sustained through lengthy negotiations and armed attacks by donations of food and dr…
KHARTOUM, SUDAN The satellite news channel Al-Jazeera said Friday that Sudan shut down its bureau, just as the country’s military government warned that the Khartoum sit-in that helped bring about former ruler Omar al-Bashir’s ouster had “become a thre…
LONDRES, 30 mai 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Globeleq a finalisé l’acquisition en Afrique du Sud de quatre installations de production d’énergie renouvelable et de la société de gestion d’actifs d’une filiale de Brookfield Asset Management. L’ajout de ces entités complète fortement les activités d’énergies renouvelables existantes de Globeleq en Afrique du Sud où la société détient, […]
LONDRES, 30 mai 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Globeleq a finalisé l’acquisition en Afrique du Sud de quatre installations de production d’énergie renouvelable et de la société de gestion d’actifs d’une filiale de Brookfield Asset Management. L’ajout de ces entités complète fortement les activités d’énergies renouvelables existantes de Globeleq en Afrique du Sud où la société détient, […]
HARARE Amnesty International on Thursday suspended its local branch in Zimbabwe after uncovering evidence of fraud, in the first ever such move by the rights advocacy group.Amnesty issued a statement saying “an extensive forensic audit was conducted …
HARARE Amnesty International on Thursday suspended its local branch in Zimbabwe after uncovering evidence of fraud, in the first ever such move by the rights advocacy group.Amnesty issued a statement saying “an extensive forensic audit was conducted …
UNITED NATIONS U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday named a new envoy for Somalia, nearly five months after his previous representative was declared persona non grata and expelled. Career U.S. diplomat James Swan will be Guterres’ spec…
UNITED NATIONS U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday named a new envoy for Somalia, nearly five months after his previous representative was declared persona non grata and expelled. Career U.S. diplomat James Swan will be Guterres’ spec…