Bank of Botswana maintained its main interest rate at 2.40 per cent while reducing its projection for this year's average inflation, in a statement released on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Bank of Botswana Governor Cornelius Dekop said the (...)
Canada's Lucara Diamond has reestablished a gem sales agreement with Belgian HB Antwerp five months after cutting connections with them, Reuters reported citing the company's statement.
In September of last year, Lucara announced the end of its (...)
Diamond producer De Beers, a division of Anglo America, has inked three new contracts with Angola to support diamond processing in the nation while looking for new business opportunities, Reuters reported citing the company's CEO announcement on (...)
تحصيل حاصل بين Tunisia vs Botswana بالتصفيات الأفريقية، تفاصيل مباراة تونس وبوتسوانا اليوم 07-09-2023 في تصفيات أمم إفريقيا، بعد تأكيد تأهله لنهائيات كأس أمم إفريقيا في كوت ديفوار في بداية العام المقبل، يستعد المنتخب التونسي لمباراة استعراضية أمام (...)
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Thursday that it has received declarations of interest from six countries in the bidding process to select the host nation for the Africa Cup of Nations 2027, including Egypt.
The CAF has also (...)
The global mobility and urban services platform, inDrive has been ranked as the world's fastest growing global ride-hailing app in 2022, according to datat.ai. on Monday.
inDrive has witnessed a 45 percent surge last year, up from 42.6 million in (...)
Globe designer Kim Jones said on Monday that he will hold his next Dior men's show to Egypt on December 3 against pyramids' backdrop at Giza near Cairo.
Kim Jones
This will be the first time for Dior to stage a show in Egypt, following events in (...)
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has exceeded the 10 million mark with the rapid transmission of the Omicron variant, which has surfaced in at least 33 African nations.
Data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and (...)
The Cabinet's Media Center said that the state has developed a comprehensive strategy to improve the investment climate and encourage the business community to expand, in the framework of the economic and structural reform policies that helped (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population said on Saturday that social restrictions and protective measures are the first wall of defence in limiting the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) variants.
These measures include wearing a medical mask (...)
Rome- The "Ecomondo" and "Key Energy" conference and exhibition, organized by the IEG Italian Exhibition Group, wrapped up in Rimini, with the attendance of more than 1,000 companies working in the fields of renewable energy, waste recycling, (...)
The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution will come into sharper focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose populations have little to no access to the life-saving shots step to the podium to speak at the U.N.'s annual meeting of (...)
Malaysia says it will ease lockdown restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated as the government seeks to allay public anger against perceived mismanagement of the pandemic.
Daily infections breached 20,000 for the first time Thursday (...)
Rwandan troops have joined Mozambican forces to launch a major offensive against Islamic rebels in northern Mozambique as more troops arrive from South Africa and other neighboring countries to battle the insurgency.
Less than two weeks after (...)
Ahmed Youssef, CEO of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Board (ETPB) at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has participated in an international summit on the recovery of tourism, held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Youssef attended the event on (...)
Most people wouldn't volunteer to walk through a minefield. Princess Diana did it twice.
On Jan. 15, 1997, Diana walked gingerly down a narrow path cleared through an Angolan minefield, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket emblazoned with the (...)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a unique experience, having stormed the world in a specific moment, causing the numbers of causalities to soar, and creating an economic and scientific panic in many countries.
The next few lines will (...)
The African Union (AU) will not be "walking away" from AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine but will target its use in countries that have not reported cases of the variant dominant in South Africa, the head of its disease control body said on (...)
The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 12 on Monday, according to figures from authorities across south-eastern Africa, where heavy winds, rain and flooding have also destroyed buildings and crops.
A tropical cyclone when it made landfall (...)
Africa should see the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March from the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries obtain the shots, the World Health Organization's Africa chief said Thursday, as deaths on the continent are rapidly (...)
A Nigerian scientist has spent the holiday season in his laboratory doing genetic sequencing to learn more about the country's COVID-19 variant, as cases increase in the country.
Virologist Sunday Omilabu says the information he gathers about the (...)
Billionaire South African businessman Patrice Motsepe entered the race to be president of the African soccer confederation on Monday.
Motsepe, who owns South African club Mamelodi Sundowns, announced he was standing and was backed by South African (...)
The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the government announced Monday.
The elephants in the Seronga area died from a (...)
Raino Bolz quickly diversified when his tourism business in South Africa's winelands crashed to a halt in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. He sold a minibus _ useless without tourists to ferry around _ and bought a herd of pregnant (...)
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has announced the launch of the NINJA Business Plan Competition, aimed at startups emerging during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The NINJA Business Plan Competition will target startups (...)