Senegal became the first country to secure its place in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations that will take place in Cameroon after claiming a 1-0 away win over Guinea Bissau on Sunday.
Liverpool winger Sadio Mane scored the winner eight minutes from (...)
All times are Cairo time (GMT+2)
Wednesday 11 November
18:00 Senegal v Guinea-Bissau
18:00 Guinea v Chad
18:00 Kenya v Comoros
18:00 Mauritania v Burundi
18:00 Cape Verde v Rwanda
21:00 Libya v Equatorial Guinea
Thursday 12 November
15:00 Uganda (...)
Senegal maintained their 100 percent record in the Nations Cup qualifiers on Wednesday after defeating Guinea-Bissau 2-0 at home to top Group I with maximum nine points.
Liverpool winger Sadio Mane converted a penalty one minute before the break and (...)
One of the lessons learned thus far from the Covid-19 pandemic is how health issues and the political stability of different countries are interrelated. Not only has the pandemic wreaked havoc on the world's economy, but the very fact that some of (...)
Africa loses $90 billion to corruption annually. The amount is equivalent to the sum industrial countries give to the continent in the form of development assistance and direct investment.
These findings were released in a United Nations Conference (...)
“There is a famous saying that every Egyptian knows — Egypt is the gift of the Nile. However, the point of my book is that it goes both ways because I want to argue that the Nile is also the gift of Egypt,” says Nezar AlSayyad, author of The Nile: (...)
A new president has taken power in Burundi two months early after the abrupt death of his predecessor, whose 15-year rule ended in deadly repression and a sharp rejection of outside scrutiny. Now the country waits to see if more of that will (...)
أعلنت حكومة بوروندى فى بيان نشرته على تويتر أن رئيس بوروندى بيير نكورونزيزا توفى، أضافت الحكومة في بيان أنه توفى إثر إصابته بأزمة قلبية.
وتشرت الحكومة البوروندية بيانا على حسابها في "تويتر" قالت فيه: تعلن حكومة جمهورية بوروندي ببالغ الحزن عن الوفاة (...)
أعلنت حكومة بوروندى فى بيان نشرته على تويتر أن رئيس بوروندى بيير نكورونزيزا توفى، أضافت الحكومة في بيان أنه توفى إثر إصابته بأزمة قلبية.
وتشرت الحكومة البوروندية بيانا على حسابها في "تويتر" قالت فيه: تعلن حكومة جمهورية بوروندي ببالغ الحزن عن (...)
LIBYA: A possible breakthrough is in the works for one of the most pressing issues facing Cairo.
Following a tripartite meeting this week with Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar, and Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh, (...)
Burundi has expelled the national head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to a letter written by the country's foreign minister, which gave no reason.
Despite the coronavirus outbreak, Burundi is in the middle of campaigns for a (...)
Burundi's domestic season is to resume on May 21, more than a month after Africa's last remaining football competition was suspended to allow political rallies to be held in stadia ahead of general elections, authorities have confirmed.
While the (...)
Both before and after Addis Ababa began to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egypt was untiring in its efforts, first, to promote consensus between countries at the sources of the Nile and downstream countries, and, second, to (...)
Almost a month after walking out of US-brokered tripartite negotiations, Addis Ababa is working on another proposal for an agreement it said it will deliver to Egypt and Sudan soon.
“We won't subscribe to an agreement just because the US and the (...)
The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) joined the Africa Economic Zones Organization (AEZO) in a bid to strengthen cooperation with African and international organisations.
SCZone Chairperson Yehia Zaki said in a Sunday statement that the authority (...)
Niger hailed on Friday Egypt's efforts in the past years to reach an agreement over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
During a meeting between Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received on Tuesday a phone call from his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, where the two leaders exchanged views on the latest developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) after the (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry explained to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Cairo's position on the negotiations regarding the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
In an official statement, Egyptian foreign ministry (...)
Egypt has taken several diplomatic initiatives in the last two weeks to explain to the world the present situation concerning negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia failed to reach a final agreement on (...)
Kenya supports Egypt's “positive stance” on the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), President Uhuru Kenyatta told Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in a phone call on Tuesday.
El-Sisi's spokesman Bassam Rady said the president (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza to deliver a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Tuesday, as Cairo attempts to garner international (...)
Egypt Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed on Tuesday to Bujumburathe, the capital of Burundi, at the beginning of hisAfrican tour that includes South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo, South Sudan, and Niger, according to a Monday statement.
He will (...)
In Sudan, dozens of youth formed three groups wearing three different colour outfits, blue, white, and yellow. The blue and white groups went in intersection lines and the yellow one met them in the middle, representing the convergence of White and (...)
Sudanese Ministries of Water, Irrigation, and Electricity have coordinated this year's Nile Day celebrations, on Saturday 22 February in Khartoum, which is meant to commemorate the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) under the theme of Joint Investments on (...)
This week witnessed the end of Egypt's one-year rotational chair of the African Union (AU). Several political pundits agreed that Egypt contributed, during that period, to reforming the continental body and enhancing coherence among its members in (...)
