Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone said Wednesday that it was extending the bidding for a massive 709-carat diamond found by an Evangelical preacher last month, after the government received only six offers for the gem. Bids will now be accepted until May 10 -- in particular to allow more time for potential buyers from Belgium, Israel, South Africa a ...
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco's King Mohamed VI on Wednesday named a new government headed by a member of the ruling Islamist party, following a six-month political deadlock in the North African country. Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othman, second-in-command of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) that triumphed in October elections, will lead a cab ...
Somewhere between the equator and the Kenyan town of Nanyuki, five students sit inside a classroom watching a YouTube video describe how to extract aluminum from bauxite. ldquo;Once you see it, it makes it so easy, rdquo; exclaims 19-year-old Kenneth Karue. Two years ago Gakawa Secondary School had no internet access. But thanks to an i ...
Rita Kimani, 25, is one of the young leaders designated by the United Nations to help promote the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among fellow youth. Through her initiative, FarmDrive, Rita is using data analytics and mobile phone technology to connect smallholder farmers with lending institutions in rural Kenya. She spoke to Afric ...
Twenty-eight-year-old Samar Samir Mezghanni, a Tunisian Iraqi, is one of the 17 United Nations young leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), who have been chosen to engage their peers in implementing the SDGs. She has written stories for children on the SDGs and garnered two world records from Guinness, first at the age of 12, when ...
In 2015, Samuel Malinga, at age 26, founded Sanitation Africa mdash;a company engaged in turning human waste into briquettes for cooking and agricultural manure. For his innovative approach to waste management, Samuel has been recognized by several organizations, including the Tony Elumelu Foundation, a philanthropy that awarded him a ...
Abidjan, March 21, 2017 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a USD 29.8 Million loan to Tanzania to help the country mobilize domestic resources and unlock the potential of its natural gas resources through leveraging domestic markets and local content initiatives. The approval follows a workshop held in Dar Es Salaam on 20 March, ...
Nairobi (AFP) - Burundi's ruling party sought Wednesday to distance itself from a viral video showing members of its feared youth wing threatening to impregnate opposition women. Hundreds of the youths known as Imbonerakure -- those who see from afar in the local Kirundi language -- are shown in military-like formation singing impregnate the ...
Bakau (Gambia) (AFP) - They came to dance in green t-shirts adorned with Yahya Jammeh's grinning face and to sing the old songs of adulation as though he never went away. The Gambia's former ruling party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), could once expect legions of paid supporters at rallies, bolstered by a phal ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal security in Mogadishu, officials said. There was a huge blast at a tea-shop near the security ministry, the initial information we are getting indicates it was a car bomb explosion, said ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal security in Mogadishu, officials said. There was a huge blast at a tea-shop near the security ministry, the initial information we are getting indicates it was a car bomb explosion, said ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, March 31, 2017 ndash; At the fourth sustainable energy for all (SEforALL) Africa workshop held 29-30 March 2017 at AfDB offices in Abidjan, as part of the Energy Week, stakeholders called for faster actions towards universal energy access in Africa. Attended by more than 120 stakeholders, the meeting aimed at ...
Lokamarinyang (Kenya) (AFP) - In just a few years water, oil and money would flow. Roads, schools and hospitals would follow. Turkana's generations of poverty and neglect in Kenya's arid north would end. But it was not to be: five years after the discovery of oil, and four since a giant aquifer was found, drought has struck again, shattering the ...
Cotonou (AFP) - Benin's parliament on Tuesday narrowly rejected a proposal from President Patrice Talon to amend the constitution, including introducing a single presidential term, down from the currently permitted two. After a day of heated debate, 60 deputies voted in favour of the bill, with 22 against and one abstention. Any change in the co ...
Bamako (AFP) - Authorities in Mali charged four men Tuesday over the kidnapping of a Colombian nun, whose whereabouts remain unknown, judicial sources told AFP. Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, a Franciscan nun in her fifties, was seized by armed men on February 7 in the southern Malian village of Karangasso, near the Burkina Faso border, where sh ...
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