A delegation of African leaders on a mission to end the war in Ukraine received a reminder of the challenge they faced when explosions were heard in Kyiv during their visit on... Read more »
LUSAKA – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA), in collaboration with the University of Zambia (Department of Economics) and the International Monetary Fund... Read more »
Start-ups in Africa have increasingly been accessing more financing in seed, early-stage and late-stage capital, signalling an improving investment landscape on the continent’s budding companies. However, start-ups in the most crucial... Read more »
Nigeria’s economy is weakening as its total debt climbed to $103.11 billion with spiralling inflation and unemployment. The dire economic situation is what the country’s outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari would hand over... Read more »
India Blooms News Service Thimpu: As many as 6,000 international tourists paying the new Sustainable Development Fee (SDF) have arrived in Bhutan since the border reopened six months ago. Another 7000 tourists... Read more »
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the country will organize the next national elections by universal suffrage, a departure from an indirect voting system that has often triggered crises. The fragile Horn... Read more »
Having lost more than 65,000 people to insurgency and terrorism in 14 years, Nigeria has launched a national counter-terrorism centre to optimize efforts in addressing security challenges. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated... Read more »
When global crises are interlinked, they overlap and compound each other. In such cases, the most effective solutions are those that work at the nexus of all these challenges. In September, almost... Read more »
BY STAFF REPORTER The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN agency, said on Wednesday that climate emergencies such as droughts, floods, and wildfires were causing the forced migration of civilians in... Read more »
BY STAFF REPORTER ADDIS ABABA – Africa must lead the charge in mobilizing domestic resources to recover from multiple economic and social crises which have deepened poverty and widened inequality on the... Read more »