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 (...)
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 (...)
(All times GMT+2)
Sunday 17 November
15:00 South Africa vs. Sudan (Group C)
15:00 Chad vs. Mali (Group A)
15:00 Eswatini vs. Senegal (Group I)
15:00 Benin vs. Sierra Leone (Group L)
15:00 Uganda vs. Malawi (Group B)
15:00 South Sudan vs. Burkina (...)
Nigeria's rising star Victor Osimhen scored twice as the Super Eagles claimed an easy 4-2 away win over Lesotho in the 2021 Nations Cup qualifiers on Sunday.
Masoabi Nkoto netted an early goal for the hosts after 11 minutes but Alex Iwobi leveled (...)
Nigeria opened their 2021 Nations Cup qualifying campaign with a narrow 2-1 win at home to Benin on Wednesday.
The Super Eagles came from behind to score twice and go top of Group L with three points.
Benin attacking midfielder Stephane Sessegnon (...)
Andrei Slipov, director of the Russian Export Centre, tells Sara Eissawi the Russian-African economic forum that kicked off yesterday in Sochi will see the launch of the Russian Industrial Zone in Egypt as well as a new mechanism to finance (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to hold several bilateral meetings with Arab and African leaders as well as leaders of international organisations on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
A source (...)
Wednesday 4 September
15:00 Burundi vs Tanzania
15:00 Ethiopia vs Lesotho
15:00 Eritrea vs Namibia
16:00 South Sudan vs Equatorial Guinea
16:30 Mauritius vs Mozambique
17:30 Sao Tome vs Guinea Bissau
20:00 Liberia vs Sierra Leone
Thursday 5 (...)
Burundi has commenced vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday.
Burundi has had no reported cases of the (...)
Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever as two experimental drugs showed survival rates of more than 90 percent in a clinical trial in Congo.
Two experimental drugs – an antibody cocktail named REGN-EB3 (...)
The draw for the first round of African qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup was made in Cairo on Monday:
Ethiopia v Lesotho
Somalia v Zimbabwe
Eritrea v Namibia
Burundi v Tanzania
Djibouti v Eswatini
Botswana v Malawi
Gambia v Angola
Liberia v Sierra (...)
FIFA has banned another African soccer official for taking bribes to help match-fixer Wilson Perumal.
FIFA says former Sierra Leone federation official Abu Bakarr Kabba has been banned for five years and fined 50,000 Swiss francs ($50,400).
In a (...)
World soccer body FIFA has handed a life ban to former Botswana Football Association general secretary Mooketsi Kgotlele for accepting bribes in relation to the manipulation of international matches.
FIFA said in a statement on Monday that the (...)
Egypt have been paired with Kenya, Togo, Comoros Island in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers during the draw conducted at the CAF headquarters in Cairo on Thursday.
While Togo and Comoros Island couldn't reach the 2019 Nations Cup, Kenya (...)
Egypt participated in anti-terror military exercises on Friday held at the Mohamed Naguib Military Base in Marsa Matrouh, the largest military base in the Middle East and Africa, according to the Egyptian armed forces spokesperson, Tamer (...)
Cameroon face an inquiry and possible disciplinary action from soccer authorities after a series of incidents in their 3-0 defeat by England in the last 16 of the women's World Cup on Sunday.
Cameroon players furiously protested refereeing decisions (...)
The African Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) — the largest free trade bloc in the world — has at last become a reality.
“The African continent has taken a giant step towards prosperity and sustainable development as 22 countries, including Egypt, ratify the (...)
Chairperson of the Commercial International Bank (CIB), Hisham Ezz Al-Arab, Egypt's largest private sector bank, said it was now time for everyone to invest in the continent, as the main driver of global growth, stressing the importance of (...)
شارك هشام عز العرب، رئيس مجلس إدارة البنك التجاري الدولي CIB، في قمة Transform Africa لعام 2019، تحت شعار "تعزيز الاقتصاد الرقمى لأفريقيا"، في كيجالي، عاصمة رواندا، لبحث سبل دفع الابتكارات الرقمية المتقدمة في أفريقيا، وتشجيع الاقتصاد القائم على (...)
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) must be green and sustainable, President Xi Jinping said in opening a summit on his grand strategy, adding that the massive infrastructure and trade plan would deliver "high-quality" growth for all.
Xi's plan (...)
China aims to make the Belt and Road initiative sustainable and prevent debt risks, its finance minister said on Thursday, seeking to allay criticism that the infrastructure plan to boost trade and investment creates a heavy burden for some (...)
Twenty-four teams were qualified for the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019 which will be held in Egypt during the period from 22 June to 20 July.
The upcoming edition is the first to include 24 teams in the history of the tournament, including (...)
قال هشام عز العرب رئيس مجلس إدارة البنك التجاري الدولي CIB خلال مشاركته في قمة Transform Africa لعام 2019، تحت شعار "تعزيز الاقتصاد الرقمى لأفريقيا"، في كيجالي، عاصمة رواندا، إن "بلوك تشين" هي التكنولوجيا الأكثر أمانًا إلى الآن، وقد بدأ البعض في (...)
Congo's Ebola epidemic has now exceeded 1,000 cases, the country's health ministry said on Monday, with a death toll of about 629 in the world's second worst ever outbreak.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid group, cautioned that case (...)
Three investment experts agreed that Egypt's interest rates are still relatively high, despite the latest decision of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to cut interest rates by 1%. The Monetary Policy Committee of the CBE cut the overnight deposit (...)
