THE Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, secured the Democratic party’s presidential nomination on Friday. Trojan News reports that the development confirms Harris as the party’s standard bearer in November’s showdown against Republican Donald Trump. Harris was…
Kenya Foreign Ministry has issued a stern warning to the US-based Ford Foundation regarding the utilisation of donor funds and adherence to the country’s laws. The warning was delivered during a high-level meeting between officials from Kenya’s Foreign Ministry and…
TOGO’S President Faure Gnassingbe has reappointed Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe as the country’s prime minister for a six-year term, marking her second tenure in the position. The reappointment was announced on Thursday by the president’s office. Tomegah-Dogbe’s return to the role comes…
Ethiopia is set to benefit from $4.9bn in debt repayment relief as it advances its debt restructuring efforts, State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign announced on Friday. This significant financial reprieve comes as the East African nation secures a new…
THE World Bank, as we all know, is about financing development to eliminate poverty. Eliminating poverty in the developing world where it is most endemic entails investing in the productive capacity of the economy to put millions in decent, empowering, nation-transforming work. In most…
THE billionaire former head of oil at Glencore Plc, Alex Beard, has been charged with corruption by the UK’s top fraud agency, alongside four other ex-employees from the commodities trader. Beard, 56, who was one of Glencore’s top executives for…
TANZANIA inaugurated a 541-km modern standard gauge railway on Thursday, connecting its administrative capital Dodoma with the commercial hub Dar es Salaam. Built by Turkish company Yapi Merkezi, this railway is part of a broader initiative to improve transport infrastructure…
THE recent protests by young people in Kenya and Uganda have highlighted a form of corruption that is difficult to deal with: political corruption. Compared to its cousin, administrative or bureaucratic corruption (such as a civil servant soliciting a bribe to provide a public…
Ethiopia House of Peoples’ Representatives (HoPR), the lower chamber of parliament, approved $1.5bn in financial agreements with the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) on Wednesday. These agreements are set to bolster the country’s economic reform efforts. The financial…
The nationwide protest against hunger and general hardship in Nigeria began on Thursday, August 1. However, amid the protest scheduled to be held from August 1-10 across the 36 states of the Federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, it is…
