The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution will come into sharper focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose populations have little to no access to the life-saving shots step to the podium to speak at the U.N.'s annual meeting of (...)
قال موهوزي كاينيروجابا، القائد العسكري، ونجل رئيس أوغندا، إن بلاده تواصل العمل مع مصر لضمان الاستقرار في حوض النيل.
وأشاد كاينيروجابا عبر حسابه بموقع تويتر، بتجربة دراسته لمدة 6 أشهر، خلال دورة تدريبية قائلا لم أواجه أي مشكلة مع أي مصري.
إنفوجراف.. (...)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Uganda and Rwanda following regional calls for mediation in order to bring the warring parties in Tigray to the negotiating table. Seeking regional supporters, he had already visited Turkey, South Sudan (...)
Under the patronage of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, Egypt is well placed to host the 2021 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships for the first time and with much government support.
Over five days of intense competition, the new (...)
Egypt received a new shipment of 299,680 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the UK through COVAX initiative, according to the World Health Organization.
The shipment is part of a plan to share 80 million Covid-19 vaccines with COVAX by (...)
At a COVID-19 vaccination site in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, tempers flared among those waiting for scarce AstraZeneca jabs, with some accusing others of trying to jump the queue.
Nurses intervened, telling them the accused had been waiting since (...)
There are some things track fans are used to: Nobody stops the Jamaican women at these Olympics and the tireless Sifan Hassan is a contender for a medal in every distance race she enters.
Other things might take some getting used to: Italy is a (...)
The interest of Egyptian companies and international firms headquartered in Egypt in the African market has been growing, with many of them now wanting either to venture into the African market or to increase the volume of their operations across (...)
Selemon Barega won the first track and field gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday and claimed the 10,000-meter title back for Ethiopia after nearly a decade of dominance by Mo Farah.
Barega broke clear on the last lap and won in 27 minutes, (...)
Serbian coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic has been appointed as Uganda's new coach for a second stint, the Ugandan Football Association announced on Tuesday.
Micho previously took charge of Uganda in 2013, helping the Cranes qualify for the African (...)
Ahmed Youssef, CEO of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Board (ETPB) at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has participated in an international summit on the recovery of tourism, held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Youssef attended the event on (...)
There is a river that has gently flowed for 30 million years, six times older than previously thought.
It could have been just another river, on the face of the earth, like the hundreds of thousands flowing across the globe. No one has really (...)
Egyptian Parliament Speaker Hanafy Gebaly stated on Sunday that Egypt has never stood against its brothers' right to development, however, it rejects any infringement of its Nile water rights.
Gebaly was referring to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance (...)
Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea has announced that a customs duty exemption on Egyptian exports to Kenya will continue for a period of a year starting from July.
Gamea said that this exemption comes as part of the comprehensive (...)
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 (...)
Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and deaths are increasing.
South Africa is leading the new surge in Africa, where case numbers are doubling every (...)
Egypt and South Sudan have signed a protocol for technical cooperation in water resources, which includes a project preparing feasibility studies for the construction of the multi-purpose Wau Dam in South Sudan.
The protocol was signed by the two (...)
As he struggled to breathe earlier this month, Dr. Nathan Tumubone was tormented by thoughts of hospitalization as a COVID-19 patient. Thinking of the costs involved, he knew he wanted to stay home.
He and his wife ``steamed'' up to five times a (...)
Hati Maronjei once swore he would never get a COVID-19 shot, after a pastor warned that vaccines aren't safe.
Now, four months after the first batch of vaccines arrived in Zimbabwe, the 44-year-old street hawker of electronic items is desperate for (...)
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 (...)
Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation announced, in 2020, the clear allocation of its financing development portfolio, which encompasses 377 projects amounting to $25bn.
The financing is to ensure the spread of projects across the UN's 17 (...)
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Banque du Caire signed an agreement, on Saturday, formalising Afreximbank's $200m Intra-African Investment Finance Facility.
The facility, which was signed in Cairo, is designed to finance Banque du (...)
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 (...)
The historic visit by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to Djibouti is the decisive step in tightening the screws on Ethiopia.
It was the first official visit of an Egyptian president in over 40 years. During the visit, the two sides discussed (...)
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, (...)
