Egyptians head to the polls from December 10-12 to cast their ballots in a presidential election that analysts say is certain to guarantee a third term for incumbent Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who has been in power for nearly a decade. Click here to read…
Three years after a disputed General Election led to a serious bout of electoral violence that was only stabilised by the formation of a unity government, Zanzibar’s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi appears to be stirring the political waters again. Click here to read…
Once hailed by many people as a saviour, Egypt's strongman leader Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is now seen in a very different light. Click here to read…
Egypt’s government will raise the minimum wage paid by the private sector to 3,500 Egyptian pounds ($113) a month as of Jan. 1, according to a decision published in the official gazette on Monday. Click here to read…
Zimbabwe is holding by-elections in which there have been attempts to exclude the main opposition candidates - as President Emmerson Mnangagwa cements his control. Click here to read…
Zimbabwe will hold nine by-elections Saturday with opposition candidates largely absent as President Emmerson Mnangagwa cements his control over the mineral-rich nation. Click here to read…
A court in Dakar will examine on December 12 whether Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko should be reinstated on the electoral rolls, on which his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections depends, AFP learned on Tuesday from a judicial source. Click here to read…
Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma was given restricted release over the weekend as an investigation continues into a foiled Nov. 26 coup. Click here to read…
A former president of Sierra Leone has been called in for questioning by police over recent attacks that officials say was a failed coup, an official said on Thursday. Click here to read…
Gabon's military leader, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, visited Cameroon on Wednesday, asking central African states to lift economic sanctions on his country before the 2025 elections. Click here to read…
Private press organizations in Guinea were divided on Sunday over a call for a dead day for Monday, launched after a series of restrictive measures taken by the ruling junta. Click here to read…
Tanzanian authorities are investigating social media users accused of spreading false information about Vice-President Philip Mpango's health. Click here to read…
Uganda’s capital has seen the bustling Owino secondhand market as the foundation of Hadija Nakimuli’s life for close to thirty years. As a widowed shopkeeper, it has been instrumental in her journey to building a home and raising twelve children. Click here to read…
Salem Doma never imagined that, after escaping government oppression at home in Eritrea, his greatest hardship still lay ahead, in the town of Bani Walid in northwest Libya. Click here to read…
An attack on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Sudanese capital has killed two people and injured seven, says the group. Click here to read…
West African leaders met in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Sunday for talks on their region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. Click here to read…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said on Sunday the West African bloc ECOWAS should try to re-engage with regional countries under military rule and support them to achieve “realistic and short” transitions to democracy. Click here to read…
The G5 was created in 2014 but has secured only meagre results, even as insecurity remains a major issue across the Sahel. Click here to read…
The Niger general who has ruled the country since a July coup met Togo's president on Friday to strengthen ties as international sanctions hammer Niamey's military leaders following the putsch. Click here to read…
Algeria's gas production looked set to rise 4bcm this year thanks to new fields starting operations, energy minister Mohamed Arkab said on Sunday. Click here to read…
Niger expects to export its first barrels of crude oil through a new Niger-Benin pipeline in January, the country's military leader Abdourahamane Tiani said on state television. Click here to read…
Ethiopia is set to join Zambia and Ghana as a sovereign defaulter, with an interest payment falling due to its bondholders on Monday that the state says it won’t meet. Click here to read…
A nationwide power outage hit Kenya on Sunday evening, causing widespread disruptions across the country. Click here to read…
With Russia abstaining, the UN Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to wind down its 245-person Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, aka UNITAMS, starting Dec. 4. Click here to read…
The United Nations mission in Mali officially ended a 10-year deployment in the country on December 11, its spokesperson said, in a pull out ordered by Mali's military leaders. Click here to read…
The US official emphasized Washington’s support for the Autonomy Plan as a serious, credible, and realistic basis to end the dispute and satisfy the aspirations of people in Western Sahara. Click here to read…
The Burkinabè government adopted on Wednesday a bill revising the Constitution and henceforth enshrining national languages as official languages in place of French which is relegated to the rank of "working language". Click here to read…
We must understand how Africans feel about Russia if we want to minimize the impact of Russian propaganda in Africa and around the world. Click here to read…
A welcoming atmosphere greets congregants shuffling into the Russian Orthodox Church, tucked away on an unassuming but badly pot-holed side street in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). Click here to read…
The United States is set to invest more than US$2 billion in Angola as it seeks to pitch itself as a better alternative to China, which has bankrolled most of the country’s reconstruction for the past two decades. Click here to read…
Beijing has granted six African countries zero-tariff treatment on 98 per cent of products entering the massive Chinese market. Click here to read…
BRICS member China is convincing African nations to ditch the US dollar and trade in the Chinese Yuan for cross-border transactions. Click here to read…
Space cooperation between China and Egypt has reached a new milestone, with the Arab nation joining the construction of a China-led moon base that is expected to be up and running by 2035. Click here to read…
Egypt's space agency chief has hailed cooperation with China in the field of space technologies, following the launch on Monday of a remote-sensing satellite into orbit from a launch centre in northwest China. Click here to read…
The EU should join forces with African countries to reform the World Trade Organization's (WTO) subsidy rules as a way to counter Chinese market distortions and diplomatic influence, the German Economic Institute (IW) argued in a paper on Wednesday. Click here to read…
U.K Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is experiencing pushback over his government’s costly and controversial Rwanda asylum scheme. Click here to read…
A Ghanaian court has sentenced a Chinese national to prison for illegal gold mining in the West African nation, her lawyer said on Monday, ending a case that started in 2017 and shed light on Chinese involvement in the activity. Click here to read…
Turkey has issued an international arrest warrant for the son of Somalia's president, after he allegedly ran over a motorcycle courier, who later died. Click here to read…
Morocco is seeking to build a new surveillance satellite in cooperation with Israeli companies, reported French media La Tribune. Click here to read…
Indonesia’s state-owned energy firm Pertamina said its 20-year LNG sale and purchase agreement with the Mozambique LNG project was terminated. Click here to read…
The Hungarian government has completed its “largest economic development programme in Africa ever” in Uganda, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Kampala on Friday. Click here to read…
Sudan declared 15 diplomats working in the United Arab Emirates’ embassy persona non grata, giving them 48 hours to leave the war-torn country. Click here to read…
Africa's time has come, but the countries that have gained political independence have yet to free themselves from economic dependence, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said. Click here to read…
Zambia is experiencing its worst anthrax outbreak in a decade, while four neighbouring countries – Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe – have also reported outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa region. Click here to read…
Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful. Click here to read…
Dozens of elephants have died of thirst in Zimbabwe’s popular Hwange National Park, and conservationists fear losing more as a drought caused by climate change and the El Nino global weather pattern dries up watering holes. Click here to read…
President Droupadi Murmu has said that friendship between India and Kenya has matured into a robust bilateral relationship, underpinned by significant economic collaboration across various sectors including trade, education, and technology. Click here to read…
Bilateral trade is valued at $3.3 billion with Indian exports making up a significant part of the figure, while Indian investments in Kenya were worth $3.2 billion. Click here to read…
Terming India and Kenya as “great friends,” visiting Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto has called for the need to consolidate the relationship between the two countries, which had diplomatic engagement at different levels since 1948. Click here to read…
Kenya's President William Ruto emphasized the mutual concern of terrorism for both India and Kenya, announcing a collaborative effort between their defense forces. Click here to read…
India on Tuesday officially proposed the import of cheetahs from Kenya, even as 15 surviving animals brought from Namibia and South Africa continue to stay inside enclosures at Kuno National Park. Click here to read…
Indian Naval Ship Sumedha arrived at Port Lamu in Kenya on Saturday as part of India’s ongoing long-range deployment to Africa in resonance with the SAGAR vision, the Ministry of Defence said in a press release. Click here to read…
Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Ajay Bhatt participated in the 2023 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting in Accra, Ghana from 5-6 December 2023. Click here to read…
Tejas LCA is a single-engine multi-role fighter aircraft capable of operating in high-threat air environments to carry out missions on air defence, reconnaissance and strike roles. Click here to read…
Seychelles has not officially cancelled the Assumption Agreement and the Assumption base could become a stellar achievement for Indian diplomacy before the 2024 elections. Click here to read…
The government on Thursday allowed the export of essential food items to five African nations overriding an existing ban. Click here to read…
Solar mini-grids are not a low-scale solution: the World Bank and IEA see them as one of the most viable ways to get fossil-free access to electricity for rural sub-Saharan Africa. Click here to read…
The plastic recycling plant in Tanzania has an annual capacity of nearly 1,800 Million Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA). Click here to read…
Mauritius and Singapore have historically been attractive routes for investments into India owing to favourable capital gains tax treatment under tax treaties. Click here to read…
The video opens with the African pandit doing the ritual and reciting the Sanskrit shlokas with proper articulation as he seeks blessings from god for the new car as goodwill. Click here to read…
With the support of the Ministry of External Affairs, the Millennial India International Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (MIICCIA) is organizing a Business Seminar on “Business Opportunities and Trade Facilitation in Central and West Africa region” on 29 January 2024, New Delhi. Click here to read…