Egyptian filmmaker Hala Lotfy will be on a jury panel of the upcoming 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), scheduled to take place between 20 February and 1 March.
Lotfy will be deciding on the winner of the Best First (...)
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 (...)
Defeating Tunisia's Esperance 3-1 on 14 February gave Egypt's Zamalek their fourth African Super Cup.
As winners of the 28th edition played in Doha in Qatar, the Egyptian White Knights received first place prize money worth $200,000 (in 2018, the (...)
The European Film Market platform Berlinale Africa Hub is taking place for the fourth time at the Berlin International Film Festival. It offers an international forum for communication and networking to African filmmakers and creatives or filmmakers (...)
Nigeria have appointed former captain Joseph Yobo as assistant coach of the men's national team, the Nigeria Football Federation has announced.
The 39-year-old will work with manager Gernot Rohr and replaces Imama Amapakabo in the technical crew of (...)
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria is the current president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A professor and diplomat, Muhammad-Bande is most concerned with resolving the development challenges Africa faces, tackling poverty, (...)
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 (...)
Raya Holding for Financial Investments said that it had received a non-binding purchase offer from the British Logistics Company Limited (LCL), for a share of 31% of Ostool Transportation Company. This would be in addition to the 62.3% stake LCL (...)
Nigerian national Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon has held the post of assistant director-general and regional director for Africa at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) since November 2017. Based in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, she has been a member (...)
The indirect economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak is hitting Africa, with the sharp decline in commodity prices "battering" economies across the continent, said Capital Economics on Tuesday.
Much of the international ripple effect from (...)
Africa shouldn't have to beg for help in addressing climate change, the president of the African Development Bank said Tuesday, adding that polluting global powers "have to pay.''
Akinwumi Adesina told The Associated Press in an interview on the (...)
Enhancing the cooperation between the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (UN), Egypt's Permanent Representative to the UN Mohamed Edrees co-chaired, along with Norway, the first meeting of a cooperative group, called the Group of Friends of (...)
Female genital mutilation (FGM) remains as prevalent as it was 30 years ago in a handful of countries, thwarting global efforts to eradicate it, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for (...)
It was a victorious week for Egyptian football clubs, with four earning qualification to the next stage of Africa's two biggest club competitions, the Champions League and the Confederation Cup. What made the advance all the better was that Ahly, (...)
Nigeria has begun working on the security and information sharing requirements for the lifting of a US travel ban on prospective immigrants from the African nation, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a joint news (...)
Following deep shortfalls in national budgets, African governments are turning to public-private partnerships (PPPs) to bridge the financing gap. Foreign investments supported by collaborative co-financing with development finance institutions offer (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump issued on Friday an expanded version of a travel ban targeting prospective immigrants from Nigeria and five other countries
The move is expected to affect thousands of people and reignite debate on whether the policy is (...)
It is only natural that the steep decrease in oil prices throughout the last two weeks, after the US assassinating top Iranian general and El Quds forces leader Qassim Soleimani and Iran's retaliation by bombing an American military facility in (...)
Egypt deservingly beat its Tunisian counterpart to win the African Cup in handball in Tunis. The Pharaohs beat their North African rivals 27-23 (15-11) in the final.
The final pitted two teams which had won all their previous six games, making it a (...)
The AfricInvest Fund is planning to invest $80m- $100m in the Egyptian market 2020 and 2021.
The investments of the company may come through the new fund to be launched by the end of next June, with an initial closure of $250m, or through other (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Health announced that all quarantine departments at air, sea, and land ports are on alert after the World Health Organization's (WHO) warning against a potential spread of a new coronavirus (CoV).
The new coronavirus is believed (...)
Egypt's Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Hala El Said and Chairperson of Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) Yehia Zaki will participate in the UK–Africa Investment Summit starting 20 January.
El Said explained that the 3-day summit will (...)
Egypt's sovereign wealth fund signed on Monday a partnership with UK-based private equity firm Actis to help allure and steer private investment into the North African country.
The two parties will also cooperate in a number of high-profile areas, (...)
Chairperson of Suez Canal Economic Zone (SC Zone) Yehia Zaki will participate in the UK–Africa Investment Summit starting 20 January for three days to promote the zone's investments opportunities, according to a statement from the SC Zone on (...)
