Harare — Africa is rich in clean energy sources, such as sun and wind, but despite this abundant sunshine, ideal for renewable energy production, the continent relies heavily on crude oil. Nigeria was the leading oil producer in Africa in 2021, with oil production of roughly 78 million metric tons, and Libya, Algeria, and Angola […]
The Adentan Circuit Court has imposed GH¢ 3,000 bail on a businessman, for stabbing his co-tenant over a woman. The man, Duro, would in default serve six months imprisonment. The Court presided over by Mrs Sedinam Awo Balokah also ordered Duro to pay compensation of GH¢5,000 to the complainant, a “financial engineer”, by November 30, […]
“We cannot blame homelessness on the people experiencing it” says academic About 200 people met on Thursday at the Brixton Multipurpose Centre for the first day of the National Conversation about Homelessness. There were representatives from the City of Johannesburg, the Gauteng provincial government and non-governmental organisations. There were also homeless people. The event is […]
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet ) has alerted the public of the possible commencement of the dry season otherwise called the harmattan season in most parts of the north, which it said, may likely affect flight operations in the country. Since the beginning of this week, following weather report of observed movement of dust plumes […]
For the second time in two months, Emirates airline has announced suspension of flight operations into Nigeria indefinitely. Recall that Emirates Airlines had announced the suspension of its flight operations to and from Nigeria in August. The airlines had said the suspension became necessary following its inability to repatriate its funds from Nigeria because international […]
Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, said yesterday that the Federal Government hoped to complete the ongoing rail projects across the country with multi-billion dollar loans from financial institutions based in China, Portugal and Turkey. Sambo stated this yesterday when he appeared before the Joint National Assembly Committee on Land and Marine Transport, chaired by […]
The government has tasked public institutions to continue improving the country’s investment environment in order attract more domestic and foreign investments. The Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade, Dr Hashil Abdallah made the appeal at the seminar for members of Fair Competition Tribunal (FCT) in Bagamoyo, Coast Region recently. “It […]
Stronger efforts are needed to resolve the plight of those who lack a nationality, urged UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today on the 8th anniversary of UNHCR’s global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness. Affecting at least 4.3 million people, statelessness is a pervasive and grave human rights violation. “Deprived of the fundamental right […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday swore in 19 newly appointed Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), ahead of the 2023 general election. The electoral body insisted that Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) would be used for the conduct of the elections. This means voter accreditation during the 2023 general election is by BVAS while results […]
Zanzibar’s current account deficit widened to 314.8 million US dollars in the period ending September this year from 195 million US dollars registered in the corresponding period last year. According to the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) monthly economic review, the development was large, associated with an increase in imports bill that outweighed the impact of […]
The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has assured that the development and revision of public procurement and standard bidding documents will ensure Nigeria avoids the repeat of the $10 billion P&ID award saga and other contract-related losses. Nigeria is currently challenging the arbitration award of $10bn judgment debt in favour of Process and Industrial Developments […]
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Northern Emancipation Network (NEN), has lamented that despite the successes claimed to have been recorded by the government, rampant attacks on rural communities in Kaduna State persist and that the people are still being kidnapped on a daily basis. NEN, through its Publicity Secretary, Lawal Hamisu, regretted that while communities in […]
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Africa: UAE Bans Sierra Leone, 19 Others
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced a visa ban on Sierra Leoneans and 19 other countries in Africa with immediate effect. Sierra Leone and other countries including Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Cameroon, Nigeria, Liberia, Burundi, Republic of Guinea, Gambia, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast, Congo, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Comoros, and […]
Ngisakonja — Evelyn Pillo points to the spot where her father’s house once sat. It was here that her family endured the horrors that, she says, haunt them to this day. In 1993 when troops with the United Liberia Movement of Liberia (Ulimo) took control of this area for four months Pillo says they set […]
Maputo — The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, once again, calling for unconditional and immediate lifting of sanctions imposed on individuals and institutions in Zimbabwe. “SADC is deeply concerned with the allegations that the sanctions are focused for unilaterally punishing some individuals”, says the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and incumbent […]
Maputo — Negotiations between the Mozambican government and the Medical Association (AMM), which sought to find a solution to avert a doctor’s strike that is set to begin on Monday next week, have ended in a deadlock. According to a letter from the AMM which has been circulating on social media, the Government did not […]
The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide expressed grave concern on Thursday over a reported resurgence of ethnic clashes in the Blue Nile region of Sudan. According to the UN, inter-communal clashes that have flared up several times since July have caused at least 359 fatalities, injured 469 people, displaced more than 97,000, […]
Kinsahasa, DRC — President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has addressed the nation over the unrest in east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and said despite disagreement with Rwanda, he has chosen peace over war. In a national address, Tshisekedi again accused Rwanda of destabilising the east of the country to appropriate its […]