Import Costs Choke Output At Libya’s Only Truck Factory
In the vast assembly hall of Libya’s Trucks and Buses Company (TBCo) the country’s sole automobile manufacturer, two men work on the body of a new bus and a few others inspect a row of truck cabs. Shuttered for five years following 2011’s NATO-backed uprising, the factory’s reopening in May 2017, with the encouragement of […]
Egypt To Host 2019 AFCON Tournament
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has selected Egypt as the hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) after their executive meeting in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday morning. South Africa and Egypt were the only two nations to submit bids for the tournament, which is only five months away from kicking off, after […]
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The Door to Political Power in South-eastern Nigeria As Nigeria prepares for February’s presidential election, Archbishop Emeritus Maxwell Anikwenwa is among the critical Ibo ethnic group leaders who have shifted support away from President Muhammadu Buhari to challenger Atiku Abubakar. The question of whether Africa’s most populous nation turns back to the political party that […]
LISTEN: Nigerian Radio Drama Tells True Life Stories of Irregular Migration
Returnee migrants are telling their personal stories on radio as part of the IOM’s Migrants as Messengers campaign against irregular migration. Courtesy: Sam Olukoya
