Thandisizwe Mgudlwa, CAPE TOWN, South Africa African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Coding for Employment Program Selects 500 Digital Ambassadors to Lead Peer-to-Peer Training Model. The Digital Ambassadors Program has come at the right time when the Bank is putting finishing touches to the Skills for Employability and Productivity in Africa Action Plan 2022–2025, says Martha Phiri, […]
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Renson Mwakandana The 56,644 square kilometer province of North-Ubangi, which had nearly collapsed since the former president of then-Zaire left in 1997, will be governed by the 40-year-old Malo Ndimba Mobutu as new governor. In DR Congo, his election is regarded as a milestone and a symbol. A Congolese of Mobutu’s ancestry has never before […]
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Renson Mwakandana Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, has rejected the latest World Bank report that categorized the country as still being low-income. According to data from the World Bank for the year ending in 2020–2021, Uganda’s per capita gross national income was $840 per year as of July 1, according to an economic report […]
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Renson Mwakandana DRC officially became the 7th member state of the East African Community with President Felix Tshisekedi calling for a lasting solution to the conflict ravaging the eastern part of the country. President Tshisekedi signed the Deed of Accession with EAC Heads of State Summit Chair President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House Nairobi, as […]
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Renson Mwakandana The Ethiopian government has signed a preliminary agreement to allow the UN to start restoration efforts in war-torn Tigray until parties negotiate a long-term peace accord. The World Bank, which announced the grant earlier in April, may now start restoring some essential social services thanks to the agreement with the UN Office for […]
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Renson Mwakandana After years of prolonged illness, the former president of Angola, José Eduardo Dos Santos, died last week on Friday in Barcelona, Spain at age 79. The family of Santos, led by his sons, rejected a state funeral proposal, claiming that for unknown reasons, their patriarch wanted to be buried in Barcelona. They pressed for adherence to their […]
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Renson Mwakandana Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of South Sudan, has put a halt to all dredging operations (clean out the bed of a harbor, river, or other area of water by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish with a dredge) on Nile tributaries in response to internal opposition, protests from activists and environmentalists, and […]
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Renson Mwakandana Three years after a controversy about their recruitment surfaced, the contentious Somali army trainees in Eritrea made their first public appearance. With the new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who is touring Eritrea on a four-day trip loaded with political importance, the troops were pictured at a parade on Saturday. Mr. Mohamud is in […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa • Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the AFRICAN UNION (AU). CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 8, 2022/ — CONTINENTAL leaders will today announce and launch the African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) Pan-African Month. The event is geared specifically for the African Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the African Citizenry to […]
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Renson Mwakandana Safaricom said on Thursday that it will begin offering paid services in Ethiopia in August. The firm, which is a member of the Vodafone group, has come under increasing criticism because it didn’t begin as planned in April 2022 as promised. Safaricom stated that “it is on course to a phased launch of its network […]
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