Cabo Verde Becomes Memebr Of Africa Finance Corporation
From Asemana Minister of Finances and Planning Cristina Duarte signed an accord in Lagos, Nigeria for Cape Verde to join the Africa Finance Corporation. The ceremony, which took place during the event...
View ArticleChild Miners Risk Lives In Hunt For Gold In Burkina Faso
From Business Recorder Perched on the edge of a mine shaft, Joel Sawadogo, 13, readies the fragile plastic lamp strapped to his forehead with an elastic band as he prepares to lower himself into the...
View ArticleEthiopia Accused Of Spying On Opposition Activists And Journalists
From Human Rights Watch The Ethiopian government is using foreign technology to bolster its widespread telecom surveillance of opposition activists and journalists both in Ethiopia and abroad. The...
View ArticleOpposition Party Says Fitch Rating Lowering “One Of The Most Difficult...
From Asemana Opposition party MpD believes that Fitch Rating’s decision to lower Cape Verde’s debt rating from BB- To B and estimate that the public debt will represent 115 percent of GDP in 2015 and...
View ArticleEquatorial Guinea Wants To Rid Self Of ‘Oil Curse’ Image
From Reuters On land cleared of tropical forest, gleaming new office towers, apartment blocks, homes and highways dazzle the eye in Equatorial Guinea, Sub-Saharan Africa’s No. 3 energy producer where...
View ArticleTata Chemicals Drops Out Of Gabon Fertilizer Project
Unlike initially planned, Tata Chemicals will not to proceed with its proposed 25.1 percent equity participation in a Greenfield ammonia-urea fertilizer manufacturing project (GFC) in the Republic of...
View ArticleWorld Bank Injects Funding Into Kenya Airport
“The World Bank has approved new funding for the emergency reconstruction of Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), which suffered a major fire disaster last August,” reports iOL. The Bank...
View ArticleLesotho Water Plan Enters Phase Two
President Jacob Zuma recently visited Lesotho to witness the start of phase two of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), reports iOL. It’s part of the government’s infrastructure development...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s Mugabe Boycotts EU-Africa Summit Because Wife Not Invited
From Business Standard Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will boycott next week’s mammoth EU-Africa summit after his wife was denied a visa to enter Europe, a foreign ministry official said. “We are...
View ArticleTourism Industry ‘On Its Knees’ After Attacks Says Kenya’s President
From Reuters Kenya’s vital tourism sector is “on its knees” after attacks by al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants carried out in retaliation for its intervention in neighboring Somalia, President Uhuru...
View ArticleCheers! Africa’s Demand For Beer Skyrockets
From CNBC Africa Africa’s demand for beer has overtaken that of a number of developed markets, signalling an opportunity to invest in the growing thirst. “Based on future demographics and economics,...
View ArticleMore Than One Million Flee South Sudan, UN Report
From BBC More than one million people have been forced from their homes by the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, the UN says. Of these, 803,200 have been displaced within the country, and another...
View ArticleAfter Much Debate, Rabbit Removed From Mandela Statue
From BBC Once upon a time there was a little rabbit who lived in the ear of a statue – the statue of a man called Nelson Mandela. The statue lived on a green in Pretoria and the rabbit, which was made...
View ArticleMiners In South Africa Have Highest Cases Of Tuberculosis
From CNBC Africa Mine workers in South Africa have the highest incidence of tuberculosis among all working populations in the world. According to the World Bank, around half a million mineworkers in...
View ArticleEgypt Swears In New Military Chief
From BBC Egypt’s new armed forces chief and defence minister has been sworn in, a day after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi resigned so he could stand for the presidency. Interim President Adly Mansour confirmed...
View ArticleGhana Says Its Seeking Investors To Build Gold Refinery
According to Ghana’s minister of lands and natural resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, the country needs investors to boost it’s gold mining sector. And he says, Ghana is ready to partner with any...
View ArticleHeavy Gunfire New Nigeria’s Presidential Villa, Reports
Nigeria’s former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and resident of the Asokoro District of Abuja where the SSS headquarters is located, Nasir El-Rufai, took to social media to alert people...
View ArticleANC Will Campaign At Cape Town Jazz Festival
The ANC has says it plans to campaign at this year’s Cape Town International Jazz festival, party spokesman Jackson Mthembu said, reports The Citizen. “This NEC was held here [because] as you know it...
View ArticleQ & A: Turning Cow Dung Into Cooking Fuel In Kenya
Kyle Schutter didn’t always dream of working with cow dung, but he knew that he wanted to work with renewable energy. From his first job manicuring neighbors’ lawns in America, he crossed oceans to...
View Article280MW of Green Energy to Boost Kenya’s Power Grid
Written by Porf. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome | From eTurbo News Kenya will progressively get another 280 MW to feed the electricity starved country, as the latest of the geo thermal plants at Olkaria,...
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