UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all political leaders in Guinea and their supporters to refrain from acts of incitement, inflammatory language, ethnic profiling, and violence, his spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday. “The Secretary-General urges political leaders and their parties to resolve any disputes that may arise through legal means,” the statement continued….
Uber Eats’ South African unit on Thursday expanded delivery offerings, launching an app-based over-the-counter medicines service as it seeks to claw market share in the fast-growing online shopping sector in Africa’s most industrialized economy. Uber Eats, a unit of U.S. ride-hailing service Uber Technologies already has a lion’s share in South Africa’s $600 million food…
Kenyan Daniel Wanjiru, the 2017 London Marathon winner, has been banned for four years due to an Athlete Biological Passport violation, the sport’s independent Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said. Wanjiru, who has denied any wrongdoing, was provisionally suspended in April. His ban was backdated to Dec. 9, 2019, and all of the 28-year-old’s results since…
Endeavour Mining, the biggest gold mining company in Burkina Faso, has restarted the Boungou mine in the east of the country which was shut last November after 39 people were killed in an attack on a convoy carrying employees. The mine was owned at the time by Quebec-based Semafo, which was acquired by Endeavour in…
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…
Kenya on Wednesday confirmed 604 new cases of COVID-19 from 5,832 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of confirmed positive infections to 42,541. So far Kenya has tested 601,623 samples since March. The health ministry said from the 604 cases, 583 are Kenyans and 21 are foreigners. The cases are made…
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…
