Carnegie Mellon University’s commitment to educating Africa’s next generation of technology leaders and entrepreneurs received a boost on June 20…
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Africa Day is celebrated annually on 25 May within the African continent to mark the formation of the Organisation of…
At the Capacity Development Forum (CDF), being held in Harare from 3 – 5 May, there was general agreement for…
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has announced the appointment of Grant T. Harris as an independent Director. This was contained in the…
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) alongside its development partners, is pleased to announce the launch of the Africa Project Developers Initiative…
Burundi government will not take part in peace talks with the opposition scheduled for Wednesday, a senior official said, casting…
The United Nations (UN) has launched a fact finding mission into new allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused four underage…
Zambia will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on August 11 under a new constitution, a government spokesman has said. President…
Theresa Ahok is in a hurry in a remote northwest corner of South Sudan. The 35-year-old is from the village of…
The President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, has threatened to fight African Union (AU) peacekeepers if they were deployed in the…
Top African police officials met in Algiers this month to ratify legal documents related to the creation of Afripol, the…
The capital of Central African Republic (CAR), Bangui is quite different to the first time I was here. Then, the…
West African nation of Guinea has been declared Ebola free after more than 2,500 people died from the virus, leaving…
Is Central African Republic (CAR) matured to hold a free and fair poll? After enduring a series of delays, this time…
The British parliament, last year, despite fierce lobbying from tobacco companies, decided that from May 2016 cigarettes would be sold…
United Nations (UN) Security Council has given its backing to Libya’s new government of national unity, a move it hopes…
A rebel leader in Burundi said on Wednesday that opposition has come together for the first time with the stated aim…
According to a report by a UK-based human rights group, Burundi’s security forces systematically killed dozens of people on December…
South Sudan recently marked the second anniversary since a brutal conflict began that has killed thousands of people and forced…
The government of Burkina Faso has issued an international arrest warrant for ousted leader Blaise Compaore in connection with the…