Initiatives developed through the International Labour Organisation (ILO)-supported Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) programme and the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) have…
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South African Airways (SAA) on Tuesday recalled some of its planes to undertake compliance checks, indicating that it may consequently…
A military court sentenced former Equatorial Guinea Chief of Staff Ruslan Hermes Nguema Oyana to 18 years in prison on…
Arlette Kavugho was discharged from an Ebola ward in eastern Congo in March, but her troubles did not end there.…
Desperate African migrants are paying their way into detention centres in Libya, the UNHCR said Thursday These migrants are hoping to be…
Hundreds of foreign nationals demanded to be relocated from South Africa after camping at the UN refugee agency offices for…
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Government of Madagascar and the African Risk Capacity (ARC), has launched the…
Doctors will use a second Ebola vaccine from November in three eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo to…
King Mohammed VI said on Friday Morocco’s banking and financial sector should make it easier for young entrepreneurs and small…
An Egyptian court has sentenced six people to death on terror-related charges for carrying out a militant attack outside a…
Uganda plans to enact a law that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a…
A Senegalese government delegation, led by the country’s Minister of Water and Sanitation, His Excellency Serigne Mbaye Thiam, briefed the…
The adoption of the Law N° 2015-36 which criminalises the smuggling of migrants in Niger, and the closing of several…
Liberia is still struggling to provide sufficient maternal and newborn care services. The country has one of the 10 highest maternal death rates in…
Vulnerable migrants who returned from sea are still being taken to the Tajoura detention centre, three months after an airstrike on…
Hardly days after the United States issued a travel advisory to its citizens in Tanzania, the United Kingdom has followed…
With estimates suggesting that by 2050 Africa’s population will double from 1.2 billion today to 2.4 billion, policymakers in the…
In collaboration with the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) and the Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (OAPI) with…
British royal Prince Harry detonated a mine and met community members during a visit to Angola Friday. Harry’s late mother…
South Africa’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation says her country will redouble efforts to tackle gender-based violence. Naledi…
Families of victims of the September 2009 massacre by Guinea’s security forces are still awaiting justice 10 years later, 6…
The United States on Friday warned its citizens to take extra care when visiting Tanzania amid concerns over Ebola, adding…
Africa’s first ladies, led by Sierra Leone Fatima Maada Bio brought their campaign to ban early child marriage and sexual…
Tanzania on Tuesday summoned the World Health Organization’s local representative, who over the weekend asserted that the government refused to…
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina on Tuesday unveiled ambitious plans to scrap coal power stations across the continent and…
With an estimated 390 million people living in extreme poverty, hunger and food insecurity, Africa is in a race against…
Norway will provide Gabon, which is almost 90 percent covered by forest, with $150 million (136 million euros) to battle…
Hours after being returned to shore by the Libyan Coast Guard, a Sudanese migrant reportedly died from a bullet wound…
The World Health Organization has accused Tanzania of failing to provide information on suspected cases of Ebola in this East…
Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and their four-month-old baby Archie are making their first official family visit to southern Africa…