Africa

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the United Kingdom have announced the selection of the Gas Insulated Switchgear Substations Project in Mauritius as a beneficiary project under the Room to Run Sovereign …

Mohammed Badaru Abubakar’s comments come as a deadline to pay a ransom for the release of five sisters expired. The six sisters, aged from the early teens to 23, were …

On Wednesday night, Humanity 1’s crew had received two different Mayday calls about boats in distress, and they desperately tried to clarify whether there was another boat nearby. The first …

“This is a national crisis – we are not doing enough as a country to protect women,” said Audrey Mugeni, the co-founder of Femicide Count Kenya, an NGO that documents …

The company this week said it wants to sell off its onshore Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in a deal worth $2.4 billion. It named the buyers …

The global streaming giant is also set to lay off staff in these markets. This is the latest in a line of decisions geared toward restructuring the multinational in order …

Three opposition leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo have jointly declared a nationwide protest scheduled for Saturday, coinciding with President Félix Tshisekedi’s second-term inauguration. The electoral commission reported Tshisekedi’s …

South Africa is a prime destination for international tourists, but industry experts say the government needs to work on attracting more visitors from one massive market: China. Arrivals from China …

One person has been killed and at least 25 injured in violent protests that erupted after Comoros President Azali Assoumani’s re-election. Demonstrations erupted on Wednesday, a day after the electoral …

Safaricom first launched the Spark Venture Fund back in 2014, to invest and support late-seed, early growth stage companies with a presence in Kenya, whilst leveraging Safaricom assets to enable …