Kenya’sPresident Uhuru Kenyatta made his maiden trip to North Africa last week, meeting with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in what turned out to be a search for another partner for the country’s nascent oil and gas sector and for an ally in…
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta last week made his maiden trip to North Africa, meeting with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Prime Minister Abdel Malek Sellal and other senior officials. Since taking office nearly two years ago, President Kenyatta has concentrated on cultivating strong…
POPULAR Zimdancehall chanter, Soul Musaka Muzavazi (affectionately known as Soul Jah Love), who has of late been hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons, was on Wednesday night arrested facing fraud charges. He allegedly defrauded show promoter, Isau Mupfumi of $750 after…
The announcement by Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf that children will be returning to school, and that borders with neighbouring countries will reopen, comes as a huge relief to everyone around the world alarmed about the Ebola outbreak. At one stage last year,…
Security challenges faced by Tunisia and the entire region including rising terrorism were discussed at a meeting Friday between Minister of National Defence Farhat Horchani and South Africa’s Ambassador in Tunis Mrs. Nonceba Nancy Losi-Tutu. The Minister of Defence stressed Tunisia’s commitment…
The World Bank is working with other development finance institutions to raise some $500 million to modernise weather and flood forecasting services in Africa. Daniel Kull, a disaster risk specialist with the World Bank, said it was talking to lenders, including the…
Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that the 4th Trading Africa Summit will take place on March 4th & 5th in Cape Town, South Africa. This year, the summit will debate Africa’s high…
The South African government has been showing signs that it wishes to take a more interventionist approach to inward foreign investment. Its view is that the current system is biased towards big multinationals and it wants more room to pursue the country’s…
