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 (...)
The perception that footballers do not live up to their social responsibilities has been debunked by their "incredible initiatives" during the COVID-19 pandemic, the global players' union FIFPRO said in a report published Thursday.
The report, which (...)
The message was dropped into a WhatsApp group used by suburban moms in South Africa. Amid the grumblings over homeschooling during lockdown, one mom went off topic: ``Does anyone know where to get illegal cigarettes? I just need a few. I'm (...)
تزامنًا مع الهزائم المتتالية لقوات حفتر، كشفت صحيفة نيويورك تايمز عن فرار فريق «كوماندوس» مكون من 20 فردًا من مرتزقة أجانب من ليبيا إلى جزيرة مالطا، بعد فشلهم في مهمة مولتها الإمارات ب80 مليون دولار لدعم حفتر، استهدفت خطوط الإمداد التركية إلى حكومة (...)
Some professional soccer players in Latin America and Africa are relying on food packages during the novel coronavirus stoppage while elsewhere others are being pressured into returning to play, sometimes without testing, FIFPRO said on (...)
A green economy is the means to salvation for the global economy after the coronavirus pandemic has affected 81 per cent of the world's workforce. After millions of people had been infected and thousands had died due to the virus, the tourism and (...)
African countries have adopted different measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The majority of the continent's countries have enforced traditional measures, such as the closure of schools, imposing curfews and banning religious, (...)
Some lawmakers in Botswana have been moved to supervised quarantine after failing to observe an instruction to self-isolate as the country tries to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government said on Friday.
All of the country's (...)
Some African countries will have more than 10,000 coronavirus cases by the end of April, health officials projected Thursday, as the continent least equipped to treat serious infections has an "enormous gap" in the number of ventilators and other (...)
