Kenya plans to focus on the Chinese market in order to boost its exports in the next few years, an official said on Monday. Wilfred Marube, CEO, Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency (KEPROBA) told Xinhua in Nairobi that China offers the greatest potential out of the country’s current trading partners due to its huge…
As South Africa still faced with serious energy problems including electricity blackouts, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said measures were in place to ensure energy reforms that would address the crisis. “Our energy security is precarious and load-shedding imposes very high costs on our economy,” Ramaphosa said, adding that dealing with energy crisis would boost…
La Fondation Merck (http://www.Merck-Foundation.com), la branche philanthropique de Merck KGaA Allemagne a organisé son premier Sommet de Vidéoconférence de l’Initiative des Premières Dames de la Fondation Merck (MFFLI). Le Sommet VC MFFLI a réuni 13 Premières Dames Africaines, dont la Première Dame du Botswana, S.E. Mme NEO JANE MASISI, qui est également l’Ambassadrice de Merck Plus Qu’une Mère, pour discuter de…
South Africa reported 969 new confirmed coronavirus cases raising the total number of cases in the country to 669,498. A statement from the Minister of Health Dr. Zweli Mkhize said that the cases were reported from a total of 11,359 tests carried out in the last 24 hours. South Africa has so far carried out…
Egypt recorded late on Saturday 111 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections in the country to 102,736, said the Health Ministry. In a statement, the ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed said 16 patients died from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 5,869. The spokesman also said 834 others…
More than 36,000 Kenyans lost their jobs both in the formal and informal sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Labour and Social Services said, noting that the figure could be higher since most people who lost their employment failed to report the loss. The ministry revealed in a report tabled to the National…
Somali and Kenyan troops engaged in a minutes-long firefight on Saturday at the two countries’ shared border, local officials and witnesses said after the Kenyan side fired shots to deter Somali demonstrators from approaching. The incident took place at the frontier between the Somali town Bulo Hawo and Kenya’s Mandera, close to where the border…
The Democratic Republic of Congo drew lessons from its fight against Ebola to help it tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, said President Felix Tshisekedi. President Tshisekedi made the remarks in his pre-recorded virtual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. He noted that the government took swift action to contain the spread of the…
President Paul Kagame and the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, on Wednesday, September 23, announced the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) had been set for next year in June. The statement indicates that the new date agreed with member countries will be the week of June 21, 2021. The meeting was to have been held…
The Nigerian government has approved a sum of 1.96 billion U.S. dollars to construct a new rail line to link Nigeria to the Niger Republic. The decision was announced on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and attended by cabinet ministers in Abuja, the country’s capital….
