Enel Green Power (EGP) has been chosen to help expand electricity in Ethiopia through the building of 100 megawatt solar farm with a total investment of around $120 million. The Italian company will carry out the project...

The Namibian foreign ministry has lambasted claims by the coordinator of UN Panel of Expert on North Korea saying that, in April this year, Namibia submitted a report detailing its adherence to UN sanction against Pyongyang. “The...

Ethiopia has sent about 200 peacekeepers to protect civilians in South Soudan, State-run news agency Sudan Tribune reports. According to South Sudan’s Foreign Minister, the deployment of the troops was in line with a United Nations resolution...

The French government on Monday provided a boost to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, giving him a warm welcome to France, amid pressure and criticism from rights groups over Egypt’s human rights abuses. The visit of the...

Osman Mirgani, current editor-in-chief of Al-Tayar daily is waiting for police to haul him in jail for six-month after the judiciary Monday sanctioned the daily for publishing an article accusing President Omar Bechir’s family of corruption. Mirgani...

President John Magufuli has appointed chairman of the board of Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) to head country’s central bank; Bank of Tanzania (BoT). Prof Florens Luoga will assume office from January next year in replacement of outgoing...

Following the verbal accusations uttered by Algerian Foreign Minister, Abdelkader Messahel, during a meeting at the Algerian Business Leaders Forum, who accused Moroccan banks of laundering cannabis money in Africa, the Professional Grouping of Moroccan Banks (GPBM)...

Head of World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has scraped his decision to appoint President Robert Mugabe as the UN branch’s Goodwill ambassador after he faced global outrage following the appointment of the Zimbabwean President. “I...

At least seven people lost their lives Sunday outside capital Mogadishu after a bus carrying farmers, mostly women, was a hit by a roadside bomb, reports say. A minibus was the target of attack which occurred in...

Eleven Malian soldiers kidnapped in several operations in different location last year and this year, have appeared in a video in which they call on President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta to help secure their release. The video recorded...