Sudanese Ministries of Water, Irrigation, and Electricity have coordinated this year's Nile Day celebrations, on Saturday 22 February in Khartoum, which is meant to commemorate the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) under the theme of Joint Investments on (...)
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 (...)
The African Union (AU) has taken two inseparable and seemingly intractable issues as the focus of its work in 2020. The Silencing the Guns initiative is a drive to end the incessant conflicts that plague the continent and is essential to creating (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Air Forces Hall which hosted the Special Olympics 1st Pan African Games closing ceremony was full of applause and cheers as three Special Olympics athletes took off their gold medals from around their necks to adorn Egypt's Minister of Youth and (...)
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 (...)
The five largest economies in Africa namely Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa contributed more than half of the continent 's growth in 2019, with Egypt contributing the most, accounting for about one-third of the aggregate growth (...)
Basketball in the first Special Olympics Pan-African Games started heating up as Morocco won their match against Egypt 23-12 in the first basketball divisioning match while Egypt's women's team answered back by beating Morocco 39-17.
A divisioning (...)
Youssef M Hamada, a professor of agricultural economy, is a member of the Centre for Agricultural Economics Research Institute in Cairo. He published The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, its Impact on Egyptian Agriculture and the Potential for (...)
Egypt's Engineering Export Council (EEC) is organising two trade missions to Africa and Gulf countries during the first six months of 2020 in the frame work of EEC plans to enhance exports.
EEC has been keen on organising trade mission to promising (...)
Japan and the world as a whole recently lost a prominent Japanese woman who had had a national and global impact for over five decades in the person of the late Dr Sadako Ogata who has passed away at the age of 92. I had the great privilege of (...)
Egypt is anticipating several important sports events in 2020 after last year's great local, regional, and international achievements. The first major sports event in Egypt this year will be hosting the 2019 CAF Awards, to be held in January in (...)
Egypt topped Forbes' "Where to Go Next" list, in which the world-renowned magasine recommended 27 countries for adventure-loving readers to visit in 2020, according to Egypt Independent on Thursday.
Each country selected in the list was chosen by a (...)
في نوفمبر الماضي، صدر للروائي المصري ممدوح الشيخ، كتاب بعنوان “الممر إلى السماء (رواية نصف وثائقية)”، وذلك عن دار “لوسيل للنشر والتوزيع”، بدولة قطر. وبحسب "تنويه" يتصدر الرواية فإن الجانب الوثائقي منها اعتمد على كتاب:
A PEOPLE BETRAYD: The role of (...)
Conflicts are one big reason for the lack of food security in Africa, reports Reem Leila. Food security is one of the main pillars of economic growth, development and stability of any society. The World Youth Forum in its third edition dedicated an (...)
A number of economic reports were recently released assessing the performance of African countries, particularly those south of the Sahara. The reports revealed marked improvement in those African countries' economic performance, despite political (...)
Qatar Airways has agreed to take a 60% stake in a new $1.3 billion international airport in Rwanda, the state-run Rwanda Development Board said on Twitter on Monday.
The board said a first phase of construction would provide facilities for 7 million (...)
The United Nations has sent a contingent of peacekeeping forces to an area of central South Sudan. This move was taken following the death of about 80 people in a bout of fighting between two ethnic communities, the UN and a local official said on (...)
Rwanda signed a deal on Wednesday with French soccer club Paris St Germain to promote tourism in the east African nation, its second such agreement since last year.
“We invest part of our tourism revenues in strategic collaborations such as the one (...)
The 2019 African Economic Conference (AEC), held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh between 2 and 4 December and organised by the African Development Bank (AFDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations (...)
It was the year 1994 when the Falcon 50 jet carrying Rwanda's long-serving president Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down by a surface-to-air missile near the capital city Kigali.
No one could have imagined that the assassination of Habyarimana along (...)
Members of the G20 and African Union had a chance to hold meetings, strike deals and exchange opinions during the three-day Compact with Africa (CwA) summit.
CwA was launched in 2017 as a means to promote investment in Africa, support economic (...)
Two people were killed during clashes with police in eastern Congo on Monday after protesters in Beni town set fire to the mayor's office and several UN buildings. They set fire in anger at a new round of violence by suspected Islamist (...)
