The Cameroonian army on Saturday rescued five individuals who were kidnapped in the country’s English-speaking region of Northwest where an armed separatist conflict is in progress. The freed hostages including three women and two men [Read More]
The China-aided Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) headquarters serves as an important platform for African countries to contain pandemic in a well-coordinated manner, a senior African Union (AU) Commission official has [Read More]
Commander of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo on Sunday stressed his forces’ commitment to merge into the Sudanese army as stipulated in the framework agreement signed by civilian and political leaders [Read More]
A senior World Bank official has called for the Ghanaian government to create more equal opportunities for girls in science education. Jaime Saavedra, a global education director for the World Bank, made the call during [Read More]
The volume and quality of this year’s tobacco leaf is expected to be significantly higher due to the good rains the country received this farming season, an industry officialhas said. George Seremwe, president of the [Read More]
Lebanon has started to receive the first shipment of 33,000 tons of wheat financed by the World Bank via a 150 million-U.S. dollars loan. The shipment is sufficient for about one month-worth of Arabic bread [Read More]
The United Nations with the support of national and international partners has provided 900,000 Kenyans with food safety nets to tackle hunger that is affecting the East African nation. United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kenya [Read More]
The Ethiopian government has invited interested parties in the partial privatization of the state-owned telecommunication firm, Ethio-Telecom. “The government of Ethiopia is proposing a partial privatization of Ethio-Telecom … by selling up to 45 percent [Read More]
Along a bustling street named “al-Mutanabi” in downtown Baghdad, pedestrians occasionally stop at roadside bookstores or bookstalls to look for books of interest. As a unique cultural area and a bookselling center, the street has [Read More]
The UN Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, has appealed for 272.3 million U.S. dollars to provide humanitarian services to 3 million people in Somalia, including 2 million children in 2023. The UN agency said the funds [Read More]
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