The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has exceeded the 10 million mark with the rapid transmission of the Omicron variant, which has surfaced in at least 33 African nations.
Data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and (...)
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announced on Saturday the winners of the Tourism Video Competition 2021 for the best destinations harnessing the power of tourism for sustainable development.
Launched ahead of the 24th UNWTO General Assembly, (...)
After two years of lockdown due to COVID-19, the Embassy of India in Cairo has resumed its cultural activities by hosting contemporary dance performances.
The 12-member Anveshana Dance Theatre group, led by Sangeeta Sharma, performed twice on 2 (...)
The 2Africa consortium announced, on Tuesday, the addition of a new segment – the 2Africa PEARLS branch – to its subsea cable network, extending to the Arabian Gulf, India, and Pakistan. This extension will bring the total length of the 2Africa (...)
The 2Africa consortium announced, on Monday, that it will extend the subsea cable that serves the African continent and Middle East region to four more branches.
The consortium includes China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, (...)
The World Health Organization said Thursday that any COVID-19 vaccines it has authorized for emergency use should be recognized by countries as they open up their borders to inoculated travelers.
The move could challenge Western countries to broaden (...)
France is adding Russia to its "red list'' of countries from which travels are banned unless imperious motives because they are struggling with virus surges and worrisome variants.
French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said Wednesday that (...)
When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of 3,500, the (...)
On 16 January, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world's largest adult immunisation drive across India.
Launching the country's vaccine drive in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), PM Modi said, "A vaccination drive (...)
“Africa doesn't need strongmen; it needs strong institutions. Nobody should be president for life. Your country is better off if you have new blood and new ideas.”
A strong warning issued by former US president Barack Obama 11 years ago during his (...)
Africa loses $90 billion to corruption annually. The amount is equivalent to the sum industrial countries give to the continent in the form of development assistance and direct investment.
These findings were released in a United Nations Conference (...)
The United Nations marked 1960 as the Year of Africa when 17 African countries gained independence in the largest wave to get rid of European colonialism since the 15th century.
However, none of the 17 countries were in a celebratory mood to mark 60 (...)
Gulf airline Emirates has resumed its Airbus A380 services to Cairo this week, with four weekly flights from Dubai, a press release by the airline read on Tuesday.
According to the release, the flagship A380, initially introduced in October 2019, (...)
Gulf airline Emirates has resumed its A380 services to Cairo this week, with four weekly flights from Dubai, a press release by the airline read on Tuesday.
According to the release, the flagship A380, initially introduced in October 2019, will be (...)
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 (...)
Africa is expected to reverse an economic contraction linked to fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic next year, according to the International Monetary Fund, but the impact will be felt for years to come.
Sub-Saharan Africa's gross domestic product is (...)
Several African countries on Sunday closed borders, canceled flights and imposed strict entry and quarantine requirements to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, which has a foothold in 26 nations on the continent as cases keep rising.
“The (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Mohamed Berrada, Rasael Min Emraa Mokhtafia (Letters from a Woman Who Disappeared), Almutawassit Books, 2019, pp158
After she disappears, we read the old letters of a woman journalist, Jazibia Abdel-Aziz, to her secret lover Himan Al-Sebti, a (...)
Fruttella for Food Industries seeks to increase the volume of its exports by 10-15 percent during the Agricultural export season ( September 2019- August 2020).
Ahmed Sarhan, managing director of Fruttella told Amwal Al Ghad that his company has (...)
Masry vs. Cote d'or of Seychelles
Stay tuned as match is due to start at 15:00 Cairo time (GMT+2)
Venue: Borg El Arab stadium (Alexandria)
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Ahmed Gomaa scored either side of the interval to lead Masry to a 2-0 victory against Cot d'Or of Seychelles and send them to the Confederation Cup group stage on Sunday.
It was an easy ride for the Port Said-based side, who had a comfortable 4-0 (...)
Egypt's Pyramids FC and Masry are likely to seal smooth passage to the African Confederation Cup group stage on Sunday after claiming comfortable first-leg advantages in the first legs of the competition's playoff round.
Masry host Cote d'or of (...)
Egyptian side Masry have all but sealed their place in the CAF Confederation Cup group stage after crushing Cote d'or 4-0 in Seychelles in the first leg of the competition's playoff round on Sunday.
Ahmed Yasser opened the scoring as early as the (...)
