Ghana’s inflation rate fell for a second month in September as food-price growth cooled further. Annual consumer inflation slowed to 10.4% from 10.5% reported for August, Samuel Kobina Annim, government statistician, told reporters Wednesday in Accra, the capital. The median estimate of three economists in a Bloomberg survey was 10.5%. Prices fell 0.2% in the…
A group of foreign teachers has arrived in Rwanda under a “teacher mobility” programme aimed at revitalizing the French language in Rwandan schools. For a decade now, sustaining French in local schools has been a challenge following the adoption of the English language as a medium of instruction in public schools. The teachers come from…
The international community on Wednesday joined Somalis in mourning the deaths of 587 people who were killed and 316 others who were injured during one of the deadliest bomb attacks on October 14, 2017, in Mogadishu. The Somalis including government officials and lawmakers as well as officials from the African Union and the United Nations…
As the world is set to commemorate World Food Day on Friday in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Uganda says it is striving to balance the food systems that have been disrupted by the impacts of the COVID-19. Vincent Ssempijja, minister of agriculture, told reporters here that although Uganda produces more than enough food…
Namibia on Tuesday reported 207 new COVID-19 recoveries, bringing the total recoveries to 10,120. Namibia’s Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula said at a daily update that the southern African country has recorded a reduction in the positivity ratio for the past 16 days despite the increase in the number of tests performed. “This is encouraging in…
The United Nations Secretary General has urged the world to take lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen disaster risk governance in order to build a safer, more resilient world. Antonio Guterres made the remarks on Tuesday as the world marked the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention…
Kenya reported its first COVID-19 case on March 13. Since then, the East African country has reported more than 41,000 infections and is one of only nine countries on the continent to have surpassed the 40,000 mark. In efforts to curb the spread of the virus, the Kenyan government imposed various measures and restrictions, with…
Egypt confirmed late on Sunday 129 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total cases registered in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic to 104,516, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 12 patients died from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 6,052, while 45 others completely recovered, increasing…
Africa is the only region where COVID-19 cases are not increasing, according to the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom. Tedros made the remarks in his speech on Monday at the Financial Times Africa Summit. “One of the few encouraging trends is in Africa, which has been less affected than other regions and is now…
The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa as of Monday stood at 1,577,644 with 38,396 deaths, according to data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest figures come even as the World Health Organization noted that the continent was the only region globally that was not seeing an increase in its…
