IN a landmark move for Burundi’s energy sector, the pan-African trade insurance agency, The African Trade Investment and Development Insurance (ATIDI), has announced its support for Songa Energy’s ambitious hydro project on the Ruvyironza River. With an investment of $7.7…
THE situation in Haiti has profoundly deteriorated and become much more desperate. Last October, the UN Security Council authorised the deployment to Haiti of a multinational mission led by Kenya to try to restore order in the face of spiralling gang violence…
SENEGALESE headed to the polls Sunday in a tightly contested presidential race that followed months of uncertainty and unrest that has tested the West African nation’s reputation as a stable democracy in a region.
PALESTINE Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah Shawesh has alleged that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in the ongoing siege to Gaza, insisting that the Israeli force is flagrantly provoking famine in the trouble Palestinian city. Shawesh in…
A 81-year-old woman from Aral Moreira, Brazil, Daniela Vera, has died after undergoing surgery to remove a 56-year-old lithopedion, a calcified foetus, from her abdomen. Daniela had unknowingly carried the foetus since her youth, with doctors dismissing her complaints of…
BARELY one week after the Nigeria Customs Service opened the Illela land border between Nigeria and Niger Republic, the government of the neighbouring country on Friday opened its border in Konni for operations. A source, Nuhu Samaila, from Konni, in…
RUSSIAN President, Vladimir Putin, had said last month that the country was “one step away” from developing vaccines against cancer. With adequate funding and support from lawmakers, Russian medical researchers might be able to roll out oncological vaccines within the…
UGANDA’S President Yoweri Museveni stirred controversy on Thursday by appointing his son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the country’s top military commander, fuelling speculation about succession plans and dynastic rule in the East African nation. Kainerugaba’s appointment comes amid growing concerns among…
DURING a Congressional hearing on Thursday, a senior Pentagon (defence ministry) official disclosed that the United States has not yet received a formal request from Niger’s ruling military council, the CNSP, regarding the departure of US troops from the country,…
RESPONDING to mounting corruption allegations and swirling media speculation surrounding her potential arrest, Speaker of the South African National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, declared her decision to take ‘special leave’ from her position effective immediately. ‘I have decided to take special…
