One hilarious joke once circulating in Iraq referred to an imaginary “anti-concern” medicine named after former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, known as much for his diplomatic clichés voicing concern over the tragic events in the country while (...)
As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived.
Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200 (...)
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, (...)
Rwanda's president has pardoned and ordered the release of 50 young women who were jailed for having or assisting with abortions.
Justice Minister Johnston Busingye said the women released Tuesday were the last to be freed. Last year, President Paul (...)
Cairo University's dorms received on Saturday three new groups of repatriated Egyptians from Kuwait for a 14-day quarantine, bringing the total number of groups returning from Kuwait to 13.
According to state-owned MENA, Cairo University President (...)
Egypt has repatriated around 12,000 stranded Egyptians from different countries since late April, an aviation ministry source told Al-Ahram on Friday.
Seventy Flights arranged by EgyptAir and Air Cairo airlines brought Egyptian nationals back to (...)
“It was very good news for thousands of Egyptians stranded in the Gulf that they will soon be returning home. The conditions they are facing, in the Gulf in general and in Kuwait in particular, are difficult.
All the uncertainties have led to (...)
To prevent Ethiopia from completing construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and begin operations without first reaching an agreement with Egypt and Sudan, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has appealed to the UN Security Council to (...)
Students at the British University in Egypt's (BUE) Faculty of Communication and Mass Media have created a unique graduation project aimed at creating awareness on Egypt's plastic consumption.
The impacts of plastic pollution on the world's water (...)
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday that the authorities will return more than 16,000 nationals stranded abroad in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The flights, quarantine and the medical tests from May 3 to May 9 have cost (...)
South Sudan's fragile government and the peace agreement that formed it are in jeopardy after the country's president and vice president disagreed on how to share out regional states between them.
South Sudan ended five years of civil war in 2018, (...)
Metito provides customised, comprehensive and advanced solutions from desalination and re-using water, industrial solutions, investing in water and wastewater assets, and structuring Greenfield and Brownfield schemes under project finance (...)
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the African Union (AU) and the Government of Rwanda have decided to postpone the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2020) due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The trade fair, which was (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on Wednesday attended with his African counterparts a virtual mini-summit held by the African Union (AU) to discuss joint efforts to combat COVID-19 pandemic in the continent, the Egyptian presidency said.
“In (...)
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 (...)
Egypt's exports of iron, steel and cement declined in the first quarter (Q1) of 2020 to $169m, according to a monthly Export Council for Building Materials report.
The Q1 figures indicate a 32.7% decline on the same period last year, when Q1 of 2019 (...)
Alibaba's founder Jack Ma announced on Tuesday that he is donating millions of masks and test kits to the World Health Organisation (WHO) amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ma said in a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, that he and Alibaba (...)
Apple Inc on Tuesday said it would expand its App Store, Apple Music and other services to dozens of new markets in Africa, the Middle East and beyond in the biggest geographical expansion of its services in almost a decade, Reuters reported.
Apple (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved $500 million to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so they can help them tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The IMF executive board approved the (...)
President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday extended Uganda's initial 14-day lockdown by an extra three weeks, until May 5, as part of efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Uganda and Rwanda have imposed a total lockdown in their fight (...)
The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?
Lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus' spread have put millions of women in Africa, Asia and (...)
Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday.
"During the last four days we can see that the numbers (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has doubled its emergency lending to $100bn to meet demand from countries in need of financial assistance while tackling the novel coronavirus.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that the IMF (...)
Latest World Health Organization (WHO) statistics reveal that 42 countries in Africa have reported cases of the coronavirus. At the time of writing, there are currently 6,579 confirmed cases across the continent, according to the WHO. The death toll (...)
Some of Uganda's poorest people used to work here, on the streets of Kampala, as fruit sellers sitting on the pavement or as peddlers of everything from handkerchiefs to roasted peanuts.
Now they're gone and no one knows when they will return, (...)
