Niger: Ensure Safety, Rights of Detained President
Mohamed Bazoum, Family Members Denied Food, Basic Services, Legal Counsel Military coup leaders in Niger should ensure the safety and well-being of deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, his family, and others arbitrarily detained, Human Rights Watch said today. The military should respect fundamental human rights, including by releasing all those arbitrarily detained, and bring about a swift transition […]
In the words of Fleria Mukhula: “I was born a peacebuilder.”
Fleria Mukhula. Photo: UN Women/Luke Horswell. New York, USA, 11 August 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Fleria Mukula, 65, has lived in Bungoma County in Western Kenya all her life. She felt she could bring more to her community and, while raising a family and running a farm, she became one of its leading voices on peace and conflict. […]
Global Mining Investors To Meet In Luanda For The 2nd Edition Of The Angolan Mining Conference & Exhibition 2023 (AMC)
The 2nd edition of the Angolan Mining Conference & Exhibition (AMC) will take place from 22-23 November 2023 in Luanda, Republic of Angola. The event is organised by the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Petroleum in association with AME Trade Ltd. The inaugural edition of the event in 2019 was opened by His Excellency Joao […]
African Energy Week (AEW) 2023 Technical Program To Showcase Africa’s Exploration And Production (E&P) Innovation, Insights
The 2023 edition of African Energy Week will feature a strong technical focus, with a parallel program dedicated to exploring the challenges, solutions and success stories across Africa’s E&P landscape Representing the biggest gathering of energy stakeholders on the continent, the African Energy Week (AEW) conference and exhibition takes place under a mandate of making […]
Guinea: Transitional Government And African Development Bank Group Sign $28 Million Loan Agreement For Agropastoral Development, Digitization And Market Access
The Bank’s Country Manager in Guinea, Léandre Bassolé and the Guinean Minister of the Economy and Finance, Moussa Cissé, signed the agreement in Conakry on 3 August 2023 The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) signed an agreement with the transitional government in Guinea for a $28 million loan to support agropastoral development, digitization and market […]
Chibuzo Opara Of Drugstoc Announced Winner Of The 2023 CEMEA Visa Everywhere Initiative
Chibuzo Opara, Co-founder, and CEO of Drugstoc, an innovative startup that leverages technology, supply chain management, financial solutions, and product knowledge to enhance access to health care in emerging markets, was crowned winner of the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) edition of the Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI) – a global open […]
Trade Intelligence Announces Exciting Lineup For Its Ti Retail Conference: Exploring The Future Of FMCG Retail
Trade Intelligence, a leading retail research and insights provider, is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its Trade Intelligence (Ti) Retail Conference on 12 September 2023 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The conference will bring together key players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry to discuss and explore the future of grocery retail in South Africa. […]
West African Leaders Ramped up the Rhetoric against Niger’s Coup Leaders
Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria after the expiration of the one-week ultimatum they gave to the Niger’s military junta, leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) called for a deployment “to restore constitutional order in the Republic of Niger,” according to a statement read by Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission. […]
Museveni Accuses the World Bank of “Pressuring” Uganda to Halt anti-gay Law
Ugandans “will develop with or without loans”, Mr. Museveni slammed on Twitter, after the World Bank suspended all new loans to Kampala because of an anti-homosexuality law enacted by the president on May 29. “It is therefore regrettable that the World Bank and others are trying to pressure us to abandon our faith, culture, principles, […]
Ethiopia’s Most Serious Security Crisis since the Two-year Civil War in Tigray
Fierce fighting broke out last week in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, just nine months after the end of a devastating two-year war in the neighbouring Tigray region. Tensions have been rising since April, when the federal government announced it was dismantling regional forces across Ethiopia, triggering protests by Amhara nationalists who said the move would […]
