The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new push to expand business ties between U.S. companies and Africa, with a focus on clean energy, health, agribusiness and transportation infrastructure on the continent.
U.S. industry executives (...)
Supposedly, there is nothing worse than a war, but actually there is something worse – an incomplete war. An incomplete war is a war that has lost its purpose and deviated from its original mission and one that ends in massive compromises and (...)
Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release.
The attack on the Bethel Baptist (...)
Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and al-Qaida extremist groups and their affiliates spread their influence, boasting gains in supporters and territory and inflicting the greatest (...)
Egypt has accepted the UK's offer to develop the former's electricity grid by integrating the variable renewable energy needed to allow the electrification of the country's transportation sector.
Egypt has already started working towards a greener (...)
Patty Mills led Australia to a 91-83 win over the United States in an exhibition game on Monday but said the 'Boomers' still have a long way to go as they chase a first Olympic men's basketball medal.
The Australians handed Greg Popovic's team their (...)
The Africa Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge has been officially launched in Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, and Tunisia.
The challenge is currently being prepared to start in Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Ghana (...)
The second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2021) has been rescheduled to take place in Durban, South Africa from 15 to 21 November 2021.
The Trade Fair was previously due to be held in Kigali, Rwanda from 8 to 14 December 2021. The decision to move (...)
EFG Hermes Kenya launched, on Monday, its online equity-trading platform, EFG Hermes One, which will see the Firm offer retail investors seamless and convenient stock trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
The online trading platform was (...)
A group of fighters from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to rivals the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) weeks after the former group's leader died, according to a video seen by Reuters.
The video fuels fears that (...)
A United Arab Emirates ban on entry from India, South Africa and Nigeria remains in place, the federal aviation authority said on Sunday, after Dubai had announced it would ease entry restrictions from those countries.
Dubai, a business and tourism (...)
Hend El-Sherbiny, CEO of the leading healthcare company IDH, has participated in an International Finance Corporation (IFC) webinar on quality and patient safety as key drivers of growth and leadership in healthcare.
The webinar witnessed the (...)
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on Tuesday the schedule of the 2021/22 season of CAF Interclub competitions as both the Champions League and the Confederation Cup will kick off on 10 September.
According to the CAF's official (...)
On 6 June, CEO of the Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Hani Salem Sonbol paid a five-day official visit to Egypt, his first since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
During his stay, Sonbol (...)
In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack.
In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks.
In South Africa, which has the continent's most robust economy and its biggest (...)
As Cairo and Khartoum continued to push for a legally binding agreement regulating the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Ababa disclosed that this year's filling of the reservoir will be much less than it had previously, (...)
"They tied me up, as I was crying and screaming," one young victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) who preferred to stay anonymous told Al-Ahram Weekly. "I felt betrayed. My parents had betrayed me without even thinking of explaining the (...)
As Egypt and Sudan were scrambling to push forward negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) before the start of the flood season, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed chose to make the provocative announcement that Addis Ababa (...)
Integrated Diagnostics Holdings (IDH), a healthcare diagnostics service provider with operations in Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, and Nigeria, reported on Wednesday a record year-on-year growth of 230 percent in net profit for the first quarter of the (...)
Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi has concluded a tour of West African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Niger, to outline the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue.
As part of her tour, she also (...)
Integrated Diagnostics Holdings (IDH) is witnessing an increasing demand for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tests, which has boosted the company's profit growth, according to the company's Chairperson Hend El-Sherbiny.
There has also been a recovery (...)
Egypt's top female Greco-Roman wrestler Samar Hamza kept her winning streak alive by taking the gold medal at the Ivan Yargin Grand Prix, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in the women's seniors 76kg weight category. The 26-year-old skillfully beat (...)
Egypt's Zamalek became the first-ever champions of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) after beating Tunisian outfit US Monastir 76-63 in the final at Kigali Arena in Rwanda.
It was the Egyptian team's second continental trophy, having won the (...)
Thirteen coronavirus cases, eight players and five officials, were detected at the Egyptian Premier League club Pyramids FC after returning from their Nigeria trip , the club's Football Director Hani Said announced.
Pyramids FC booked their place in (...)
Egypt offered its deepest condolences to the government and people of Nigeria after the death and injury of scores of people when an overloaded boat ferrying passengers to a market sank in the Niger River.
In a statement by the Foreign Ministry (...)
