Addis Abeba — As part of the Ethiopian Italian Cooperation Framework 2023-2025 which was announced during the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visit to Rome on 06 February, the two countries have signed agreements worth 140 million Euros (100 million soft loans and 40 million grant). According to a statement sent to Addis Standard by the […]
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A former Ghana Black Stars player, Christian Atsu, has been found alive in the rubble of the residential building he was when earthquake caused it to collapse. The former Málaga, Porto and Newcastle player is one of the few survivors found alive among the rubble of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, causing more […]
South Africa’s ambassador to Turkiye, Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba, has confirmed that a prison where seven South Africans were detained collapsed during the deadly series of earthquakes that ripped through Turkey and Syria, reports EWN. Letsatsi-Duba says her team is not aware of the extent of damage or how many South Africans have made it out alive. The […]
Nairobi — Kenyans are paying more for excisable products as a Swiss manufacturer of tax stamps make billions of shillings. This comes at a time when the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) plans to quadruple fees manufacturers must pay for stamps on excisable goods. Price hikes will impact final product prices for alcohol, juice, cigarettes and […]
Geneva — Swiss President Alain Berset will visit the troubled Cabo Delgado province this week during a trip to Mozambique and Botswana. His visit comes in the year Switzerland assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the first time. “In both countries, the regional situation and global issues will be discussed in […]
As men are being slaughtered on all sides in a grinding war of attrition for the control of destroyed Ukrainian cities, the new Cold War between Russia and the West is being played out on another front — Africa. On 7 December 2022, a 12-member delegation from Burkina Faso led by Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim […]
The Russian cargo vessel Lady R is currently at anchor off Beira having sailed from the South Africa Naval Base at Simon’s Town on 9 December, where it apparently loaded and unloaded cargo at night during blackouts (load-shedding). Commercial cargo ships do not normally go to naval bases. Nothing has been said officially, but South […]
The bank said necessary steps have been taken to address and resolve the identified gaps The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), regulator of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom, imposed monetary penalties totalling £7.7 million on the UK unit of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) “for serious weaknesses in its anti-money laundering (AML) systems and […]
A former environment minister of Tunisia has been sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the illegal import of 280 containers of waste from Italy, according to local media in the capital, Tunis. Mustapha Aroui and several ministry officials were sacked from their jobs in 2020 following an investigation into how the […]
The European Union(EU) has given approval for a $3.4 million working capital facility under the ElectriFI Country Window for Nigeria for Okra Solar to use solar mesh-grids to target 76,000 energy access beneficiaries by the end of 2025. Okra Solar will provide access to electricity through mesh-grid technology to mini-grid developers. The initiative, which was […]
Rome — The Catholic Church in different parts of Africa remembers Benedict XVI with masses and suffrage prayers. The Bishops of Uganda, who said they had a close relationship with Pope Benedict XVI, remembered him as a scholar and doctor of the church who helped many of them during his mandate as Pope. They described […]
Mia Swart is Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Edge Hill University and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, is 4,000 miles from the United Kingdom. Yet this does not deter the UK government from carrying out its plan in which asylum seekers deemed […]
With violence continuing into the new year, security experts call on the EU to push for a more local approach in Mali. Disputes with Mali’s ruling military junta and their close relationship with Russian mercenaries over the past two years have caused France, Germany and their EU allies to wind down security operations in the […]
Cape Town — The European Union (EU) has called on all states in the Great Lakes region to stop support from flowing to armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has singled out Rwanda for an unusually blunt warning. In a statement issued on December 31, referring to rebels of the “March 23 […]
Hissein Mahamoud Barkai won France’s Lebey Prize for best artisan in 2022. A member of the Toques françaises association of chefs, he’s become an ambassador for Chadian gastronomy around the world, with hallmark creations like the “Paris-N’Djamena”. Barkai was born in Chad and after training in France as a pastry chef now spends his time […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recalled its ambassador to France over suspected “financial misappropriation” in running its embassy in Paris. Isabel Machik Ruth Tshombe, who had held the post since January 2022, on Saturday rejected the allegations. Acording to a letter verified by the French press agency AFP, Tshombe has been ordered to return […]
SPAIN has emerged as Nigeria’s largest export destination with total export valued at N873.6 billion, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown. The NBS report titled: ‘Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade Q3 2022’, showed that India and France took the second and third positions in the export cargoes from […]
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources strongly condemned Genel Energy’s illegal activities in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland. The ministry warned of the potential risks to its investment and the legal ramifications of carrying out illegal exploration in the Horn of Africa country.