Ghana Secures Funding to Fix Rural Connectivity
Ghana has secured $500 million from the World Bank to improve rural connectivity and strengthen the country’s agricultural supply chains. Over the next five years, the grant will be used to rehabilitate and maintain more than 1,000 kilometers of roads across key farming regions, including Northern, Ashanti, Volta, and Western. Poor road conditions have long […]
Global Backing Boosts Ebola Vaccine Efforts
Efforts to combat the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in Central and East Africa received a major boost after global health organization CEPI committed over $60 million to vaccine development projects. The funding includes up to $50 million for Moderna’s experimental vaccine, alongside support for candidates developed by the University of Oxford, the Serum Institute of India, […]
Ramaphosa Impeachment Committee Elects Chairperson
The Section 89 Impeachment Committee of South Africa’s parliament has elected RISE Mzansi MP Makashule Gana as chairperson, marking the formal start of proceedings to determine whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should be removed from office over the Phala Phala scandal. Gana, backed by parties within the Government of National Unity, secured 19 votes, defeating United […]
Senegal’s President Names New Cabinet
Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has announced a new 30-member cabinet that conspicuously omits senior figures from Ousmane Sonko’s Pastef party. The move comes less than two weeks after Faye dismissed Sonko, his former mentor, as prime minister and dissolved the erstwhile cabinet. Sonko was then elected speaker of parliament, deepening the rift between himself […]
