The little girl ran up to her, wide-eyed and giddy.
``Are you Charisse Davis?'' the fourth grader asked.
Davis was stunned. A former kindergarten teacher and librarian, she was more accustomed to shuttling her two sons to basketball practice than (...)
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a ``serious funding gap'' to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The $1.75 million raised so far will only last for a few (...)
Egypt said on Monday that the talks brokered by the African Union (AU) between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had ended without an agreement.
At the end of 10 days of negotiations differences between (...)
Ebola is spreading in western Democratic Republic of Congo, with nearly 50 known cases across a large region bordering the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
Since authorities (...)
Celestin Tunda, Minister of Justice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) officially resigned from the government on Saturday morning.
This resignation follows his arrest two weeks ago in Kinshasa by the judicial police and then (...)
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, on Wednesday, that his country has proposed an offer to Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to provide technical assistance regarding the Ethiopian dam crisis.
The Russian proposal came following a meeting of (...)
Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases.
The continent-wide total is now at least over 504,000 after South Africa recorded another day of more than 10,000 confirmed cases as a new global hot spot.
The true number of cases (...)
Egypt will not accept incomprehensive deal on Ethiopian dam that does not take into account the former's concerns or defers solving disputing issues, Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation has stressed.
The ministry's statement came out (...)
The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET), organised by Egypt's Ministry of Culture, will kick off its 27th edition online on 1 September.
The festival's new management announced that this year's edition will be held online (...)
Egypt's state-run construction firm Arab Contractors studies executing a number of projects in four foreign countries within the current year, a senior official said on Sunday.
The projects will include the implementation of three drinking water (...)
If the recent initiative undertaken by the current African Union chair succeeds in resolving the outstanding differences between Egypt and Sudan, on the one hand, and Ethiopia, on the other, over the rules for filling and operating the Grand (...)
For the first time in Belgium's history, a reigning king expressed deep regret Tuesday for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In a letter to the president of the (...)
For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps (...)
أعلن وزير المياه والري الإثيوبي سيليشي بيكيلي، السبت، أنه سيكون هناك اتفاق بين مصر وإثيوبيا والسودان فيما يتعلق بملء سد النهضة في غضون أسبوعين إلى ثلاثة أسابيع.
وكتب بيكيلي عبر تويتر أنه "تم التوصل إلى توافق لوضع اللمسات الأخيرة على اتفاق سد النهضة (...)
"More than 90% of issues in the tripartite negotiations on the giant Nile dam between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have been resolved," the African Union (AU) Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat said in a statement on Saturday.
There are two (...)
Ethiopia is scheduled to begin filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the next two weeks, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced in a statement on Saturday.
The statement added that, during this time, the remaining construction (...)
Eastern Congo marked an official end Thursday to the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which killed 2,280 people over nearly two years, as armed rebels and community mistrust undermined the promise of new vaccines.
Thursday's milestone was (...)
Statues and other monuments have always been powerful symbols expressing people's sentiments and aspirations and at times their desire for immortality. Some have been crafted to glorify figures from official history or have been of people considered (...)
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded up to 17 Ebola cases in a new outbreak of the deadly virus in the western province of Equateur, and 11 of those infected have died, medical authorities said on Monday.
The authorities had reported 12 (...)
The World Health Organization hopes to work "side by side" with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo, its chief said on Wednesday, despite their differences over the new coronavirus.
President Donald Trump said last month he (...)
The Paris Club of creditor nations have so far waived $1.1 billion euros of debt servicing payments due this year from some of the worlds poorest countries under a G20 deal and more relief is on the way soon, the group said on Wednesday.
The Paris (...)
Moody's expects a continued depression in oil prices that will exacerbate pressures on oil exporters, despite recent increases in prices.
In its report "Credit Risks in Turbulent Times", Moody's assumes that Brent will average $35/barrel (bbl) in (...)
Addressing the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi commented that “the Nile is a matter of life and existence for Egypt, and we urge the international community to persuade (...)
Egypt's Zamalek are close to signing Primeiro de Agosto's Angolan international winger Ary Papel in the summer to bolster their squad ahead of the next season, Ahram Online reported.
Primeiro de Agosto's Angolan international winger Ary Papel
"Ary (...)
قدمت مصممة الأزياء الكونغولية، أنيفا مفويمبا، نوعا جديدا من عروض الأزياء الافتراضية وهو عرض ثلاثى الأبعاد لمجموعتها الجديدة، دون استخدام عارضات.. أصدرت مفويمبا أحدث مجموعة لعلامتها التجارية للأزياء Hanifa، على انستجرام، حيث ظهرت التصاميم كنماذج (...)
