Africa rsquo;s leading Rating, Media and PR firm, Avance Media and Foundation for Youth Health and Malishamba (FOYOHEMA), Tanzania has launched the search for 2017 rsquo;s 50 Most Influential Young Tanzanians, an initiative which is highlighted to become the most comprehensive ranking for young people in Tanzania. The initiative which will rank ...
Africa rsquo;s leading Rating, Media and PR firm, Avance Media and Youth Employment Creation Initiative-YECI Project, Zambia has launched the search for 2017 rsquo;s 50 Most Influential Young Zambians, an initiative which is highlighted to become the most comprehensive ranking for young people in Zambia. The initiative which will rank and honour ...
The Hague (AFP) - The Dutch government voiced concern Tuesday over a visit by an Eritrean presidential advisor to The Netherlands, where large numbers of refugees have sought shelter after fleeing the repressive nation. The visit by Yemane Gebreab, advisor to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, is awkward, the Dutch cabinet said. Gebreab is ...
Nairobi (AFP) - Drought and conflict have pushed the Horn of Africa, Nigeria and Yemen to the brink of famine, and a lack of aid funding means many could starve to death, the UN said Tuesday. More than 20 million people are at risk of famine in Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria, a tragedy already affecting 100,000 people in war-torn South Sudan. Wor ...
Tataouine (Tunisia) (AFP) - More than a thousand people demonstrated Tuesday in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine during a general strike to denounce marginalisation and demand development and jobs, an AFP correspondent said. The city some 500 kilometres (200 miles) south of Tunis on the edge of the desert has been the scene of several pro ...
Lusaka (AFP) - Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, who has refused to accept the result of last year's presidential election, was detained Tuesday on treason charges, his lawyer said. Police were not immediately available to confirm the charges, which came after a dispute over Hichilema's vehicles allegedly obstructing President Edgar ...
Algiers (AFP) - The goalkeeper of Algeria's first division club MC Alger, Faouzi Chaouchi, was sentenced Tuesday to a suspended six-month prison term for an attack on a policeman, media reported. Chaouchi, 32, a former keeper of the national team, was charged with aggression against a policeman who was searching players at a match in Algiers o ...
Geneva (AFP) - African migrants trying to reach Europe are being sold into slavery in Libya, including for sex, for as little as $200, international monitors said Tuesday, citing testimony from victims. Having paid human traffickers in the hope of finding a better life many instead were held hostage and their families extorted for ransom. The ...
bull; ldquo;They see us as cannibals; they see us as prostitutes; they see us as drug addicts. rdquo; Ghanaian student Mina Wumbey bull; ldquo;If you are black, they consider you as trash. rdquo; Nigerian student Sadiq Bello bull; ldquo;My experience is that it rsquo;s everywhere. rdquo; Ind ...
London (AFP) - Training with Jamaican athletics legend Usain Bolt gave Wayde van Niekerk the self-belief he could break Michael Johnson's 400 metres world record, he told The Times on Tuesday. The 24-year-old South African duly delivered in perhaps the performance of last year's athletics at the Olympics in Rio posting a time of 43.03 in the fin ...
Lusaka (AFP) - Armed police on Tuesday held Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema after raiding his house overnight, an AFP correspondent witnessed. No official reason was given for the arrest, but Hichilema is suspected of having obstructed President Edgar Lungu's motorcade when he was travelling to the Western province for a traditiona ...
Geneva (AFP) - The United Nations warned Tuesday of a growing risk of mass deaths from starvation among people living in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria. An avoidable humanitarian crisis... is fast becoming an inevitability , as the UN faces a severe funding shortfall to help people affected by famine, ...
LAGOS, Nigeria, 11 April, 2017-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Africa Finance Corporation ( 39;AFC 39;), a leading pan-African multilateral development finance institution and project developer, has issued a US$500 million 7 year Eurobond. The senior, unsecured Eurobond which carries a coupon of 3.875% was priced to yield 4.000% and matures in A ...
Famine is stalking Africa, threatening unprecedented levels of starvation. Famine has already been officially declared in parts of South Sudan rsquo;s Unity State, Somalia, and sections of the Borno State in Nigeria. Somalian officials reported 110 human beings perished from hunger in forty-eight hours in one region in the first days of March. O ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is proposing a new diplomatic push to end the decades-old dispute over Western Sahara, possibly by holding a referendum on Morocco's rule over the territory, according to a confidential report obtained by AFP on Monday. Guterres said in the report to the United Nations ...
Washington (AFP) - El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing an early warning that could save lives, scientists said Monday. During the years when El Nino is warming the eastern Pacific, East Africa has about 50,000 additional cholera cases a year, new research from ...
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