Tataouine (Tunisia) (AFP) - A young protester was killed Monday after a national guard vehicle accidentally ran him over in south Tunisia, raising fears of more social unrest in a region already rocked by weeks of protest. The death comes as tensions have risen between protesters and security forces outside the El Kamour oil and gas pumping st ...
Al Hoceima (Morocco) (AFP) - Morocco's interior minister led a large government delegation Monday to the northern city of Al-Hoceima which has been rocked by months of protests demanding jobs and economic development. Al-Hoceima is in the Rif -- a long-neglected ethnically Berber region that was at the heart of a 2011 movement for reform that sa ...
Ahmedabad, India, May 22, 2017 ndash; India is the perfect place for the African Development Bank to focus on the transformative power of agriculture, Bank President Akinwumi Adesina has told the African, Indian and international press. ldquo;India is an inspiration to Africa, in that its Green Revolution took just three years. That was in lar ...
Tataouine (Tunisia) (AFP) - A young protester was killed Monday after a national guard vehicle accidentally ran him over in south Tunisia, raising fears of mounting social unrest in a region rocked by weeks of protest. The death comes as tensions have risen between protesters and security forces outside the El Kamour oil and gas pumping statio ...
Cape Town (AFP) - South Africa's Western Cape region which includes Cape Town declared a drought disaster on Monday as the province battled its worst water shortages for 113 years. Boreholes will be drilled at hospitals in Cape Town, a popular international tourist destination, a mobile desalination plant will be tested and the natural aquifer a ...
Germany is in negotiations with Namibia about the phrasing of the first official apology for General von Trotha rsquo;s extermination orders that led to the murder of around 100 000 Ovaherero and Nama people between 1904 and 1908 in the German colony of then South West Africa. These negotiations have been criticized for excluding the vict ...
Women are making an invaluable contribution to the power and water industries as reflected by the many ladies amongst the winners of the 2017 African Utility Week Industry Awards that were announced at the CTICC in Cape Town last week. Three of the awards, namely Lifetime Achievement, Outstanding Contribution to Power as well as Young Energy ...
Ahmedabad, India, May 22, 2017 ndash; African governments need to integrate entrepreneurship more fully into their industrialisation strategies, according to the African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2017 released Monday, May 22 at the African Development Bank Group rsquo;s 52nd Annual Meetings. In 2016, Africa rsquo;s economic growth slowed d ...
Abidjan (AFP) - Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing world averages, says a wide-ranging report out Monday on the continent's future. While large portions of the continent's 1.2 billion people live in poverty, many of Africa's 54 nations have made significant progress in health, ...
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