AFRICA
BUSINESS FEATURE: Maximizing revenues from natural resource wealth could yield big fiscal and environmental dividends for African countries
Africa’s Resource Future, a World Bank report launched this week, finds that on average countries capture only about 40% of...
African Development Bank sanctions Goldsun Investments over fraud, corruption
The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), on 9 May 2023, announced a 24-month debarment of Goldsun Investments Company Ltd. with...
Uganda awaits key merger decisions as COMESA CC marks 10 years
The CCC is the trade blocs watchdog responsible for ensuring that fair trade practices among the 21 member states, including...
Death toll in Sudan clashes rises to 528: Health ministry
Heavy smoke bellows above buildings in the vicinity of the Khartoum's airport on April 15, 2023, amid clashes in the...
The African Commission condemns in the strongest terms the indiscriminate bombings and shelling in Sudan
Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (L) and Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (R) both lead powerful forces The African Commission on Human...
Legal tools and Human Based Rights Approach (HRBA) promote Agroecology
NAIROBI: Applying to use of legal tools and HRBA to promote agroecology is a way forward when planning, supporting, and...
Payday secures $3M Seed round to power the future of work for Africa
Payday, the leading Pan-African neobank issuing global accounts to Africans, has announced a $3M seed round of funding, led by...
Sub-Saharan Africa: Scourge of conflict continues to cause suffering amid double standards and failure of leadership
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 generated a global energy and food crisis, which hit Africa hard, and sought...
Bwino Kyakulaga: Uganda’s culture is organic agriculture, and by extension, it is agroecology
Hon. Fred Bwino Kyakulaga addressing the participants NAIROBI: The Minister of State for Agriculture, Uganda, Hon. Fred Bwino Kyakulaga, the...
Africa must urgently invest in economic recovery, Finance Ministers urge
Africa needs to invest approximately $66 billion in its health systems and health infrastructure Africa should deploy innovative resource mobilization...
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