China has for the first time reduced the amount of money pledged to support the promises of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, as elements of the event suggest a maturing of Sino-African relations. Chinese trade with Africa has dropped significantly in recent years, down to $170 billion in 2017 from a peak of $220 billion […]
The European Union’s chief negotiator for Brexit has indicated that a deal with the United Kingdom on the country’s departure from the bloc would be possible by November. Michel Barnier said Monday that if the EU and the UK could stick to the realities on the ground, a deal on Brexit would be in their […]
Nigeria’s Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has submitted nomination forms he picked up for the presidential candidacy race of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Saraki wrote on Twitter that he had submitted the presidential nomination and expression of interest forms to the PDP at the Abuja headquarters of the party, adding “It is time to #GrowNigeria!” […]
A senior member of the Yaoundé Francophone regime has told Cameroon Intelligence Report that the country is no longer under the control of President Biya and his forces. The French Cameroun political elite who hail from the South region also said the Ambazonian Restoration Forces stand a better chance of taking control of more territory […]
President John Magufuli has urged Tanzanian women to “give up contraceptive methods,” insisting his country needs more people, local media reports. “You have cattle. You are big farmers. You can feed your children. Why then resort to birth control? This is my opinion, I see no reason to control births in Tanzania,” Magufuli said in a […]
The United States threatened Monday to arrest and sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court if it moves to charge any American who served in Afghanistan with war crimes. White House National Security Advisor John Bolton called the Hague-based rights body “unaccountable” and “outright dangerous” to the United States, Israel and other […]
An indefinite dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed on the English-speaking Northwest Cameroon after armed separatists attacked buses and blocked access into the regional capital, Bamenda late on Saturday. Northwest governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique said the curfew between 6pm and 6am from Sunday will remain effective till further notice. “During the said period, movements […]
Winners of the 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge were announced at a ceremony held at Ecobank’s (Ecobank.com) headquarters in Lome, Togo on 30th August 2018. Nala, from Tanzania, beat the ten other finalists to emerge as the overall winner of the competition. Virtual Identity from South Africa and Wallet.ng from Nigeria were the first and second […]
Police in France say they have arrested a knife-wielding man who wounded seven people in an attack in central Paris. Police said early Monday that the man, also armed with an iron bar, stabbed seven people, including two British tourists, near a cinema on the banks of a canal in the northeast of the French […]
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, with 660 injured, the government said on Monday. The pre-dawn, 6.7-magnitude quake on Thursday temporarily paralyzed the island of Hokkaido, cutting off access by air and train and knocking out power to an island the size of Austria. About 2,500 […]
