The Apple Music streaming platform announced Thursday that “Africa Now Radio with Cuppy” will debut Sunday and will feature a mix of contemporary and traditional popular African sounds, including genres like Afrobeat, rap, house, kuduro and (...)
كشفت شركة Feet ‘N' Tricks الدولية، أكبر مروج لكرة القدم الحرة في إفريقيا، النقاب عن النسخة الأولى من بطولة إفريقيا المفتوحة لكرة القدم الحرة 2020، وهي البطولة الأولى من نوعها على مستوى القارة.
كشف فالنتين أوزيغبو، رئيس Feet ‘N' Tricks الدولية، في (...)
Nigeria's film industry is creeping back to work after lockdown, and one of the first productions to resume is a new television series about a highly infectious disease that has ravaged the world.
Cameras stopped rolling weeks ago due to the (...)
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, (...)
African Reinsurance Corporation's (Africa Re) total investment portfolio in Egypt climbed to around 2.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($158.7 million), said its regional director Omar Gouda on Wednesday.
The company's investment portfolio in the Egyptian (...)
The 21-year-old Nigerian comedian Maryam Apaokagi has joined a line-up of the nation's top performers working health tips into their routines to spread the word about COVID-19.
In one of her online videos, she plays the role on an all-knowing, (...)
Egypt will operate on Thursday three flights from Cairo International Airport to bring home stranded Egyptians from the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Nigeria, state-owned new agency MENA said on Wednesday.
Egypt has suspended international flights (...)
Two dozen Lagos healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks rushed outside the isolation tents and, making sure to keep six feet apart on the bright green grass, danced and swayed as a saxophone and trumpet struck up the band.
Inside the tents, some (...)
Tech startup founder Ebun Okubanjo watched with dismay as his home city of Lagos entered a coronavirus-containment lockdown, knowing well that millions of Nigerians on the margins could be left with nothing, Reuters reported on Thursday.
So he and (...)
The African continent, with a population of over 1.2 billion, has recorded more than 30,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and close to 1,500 deaths. The figures may seem less threatening when compared to those in Europe and the United States. But the (...)
Nigerian state governors have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the compulsory use of face masks in public as confirmed coronavirus cases rise, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday.
The 36 governors believe Buhari's approval (...)
Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections have continued to grow across Africa, with the total number of infections reaching 15,249, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these cases, 816 have died, and 2,895 have recovered so (...)
Nigeria will extend lockdowns in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states for an additional 14 days to combat the new coronavirus, President Muhammadu Buhari said in an address to the nation on Monday.
Initial 14-day lockdowns in the three areas began on March (...)
In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which cannot be collected due to the lockdown in force to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
"This lockdown came upon us suddenly. I used (...)
Until a month ago, Diana Leticia Hernandez sold face cream door to door in Miami. Her husband painted houses. The money fed their family and at least six relatives in Honduras.
Hernandez has sold nothing since last month due to fear and (...)
Since the coronavirus outbreak took a serious turn at the onset of the year, the world has been fearing the spread of the disease in Africa, largely due to its humble capacities and deteriorating healthcare and development plans.
Africa has been (...)
A pipeline explosion on Sunday killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, emergency services said.
Several people were injured and taken to hospital, (...)
An Egyptian documentary film titled Flox will participate in the upcoming anniversary edition of iREPRESENTInternational Documentary Film Festival (IREP), which will take place between 19 and 22 March in Lagos, Nigeria.
In its tenth edition, the (...)
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Google Maps came out with a new look along with a slightly redesigned app and some new features.
In a video conference, Senior Vice President of Google Maps Jen Fitzpatrick and Vice President of Google Dane Glasgow (...)
The dream and vision of the great founding fathers of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) led to the formation of regional economic communities in Africa including the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and others.
COMESA's (...)
Egypt's state-owned flag carrier airline EgyptAir announced on Monday it will increase the number of flights to several destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and the Middle East in the summer of 2020.
The move is a part of the (...)
Egypt's flag carrier airline EgyptAir announced on Monday it will increase the number of flights to several destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and the Middle East in the summer of 2020.
The move is a part of the company's efforts (...)
Two short films by Egyptian filmmakers will take part in the upcoming 4th edition of the Africa International Film Festival, taking place between 13 and 20 November in Lagos, Nigeria.
Both films – Intense Practice To Improve Performance and Doors Of (...)
Egyptian transport technology start-up Swvl will expand into two cities in Pakistan in the next two weeks and begin operations in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos before the end of the year, its chief executive told Reuters.
The firm, which (...)
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has told the central bank to stop providing funding for food imports, his spokesman said in a statement on Tuesday.
The move has raised questions about the bank's independence.
Nigeria, which has Africa's biggest (...)
