Britain's Standard Chartered is planning to exit its operations in seven countries in Africa and the Middle East, the mass exodus move aims to narrow its focus to the region's faster-growing markets, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
In a statement (...)
كشفت مجلة "فوربس" الشرق الأوسط في قائمتها المليارديرات في أفريقيا أغنى مما كانوا عليه منذ سنوات، رغم الجائحة العالمية. يقدّر إجمالي ثروات المليارديرات في القارة، والبالغ عددهم 18 مليارديرًا، بنحو 84.9 مليار دولار، بزيادة قدرها 15% عن الاثني عشر (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population said on Saturday that social restrictions and protective measures are the first wall of defence in limiting the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) variants.
These measures include wearing a medical mask (...)
The Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet has released a study on the trade relations between Egypt and the COMESA community, whose membership comprises 21 African countries.
The centre said that COMESA is among the most (...)
أعلنت جنوب إفريقيا قائمتها المكونة من 24 لاعبا استعدادا لمواجهتي زيمبابوي وغانا في تصفيات كأس العالم 2022.
وضمت القائمة المهاجم بيرسي تاو المنضم حديثا إلى الأهلي.
وغاب تاو عن القائمة النهائية لفريق بافانا بافانا مطلع أكتوبر الجاري بسبب الإصابة بعدما (...)
Representatives from governments, enterprises and non-governmental organizations around the world are gearing up for a landmark event hosted by China to negotiate a once-in-a-decade consensus on protecting global biodiversity.
The 15th meeting of (...)
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 (...)
The Ghana Football Association fired Charles Akonnor on Monday, the third coach to lose his job in Africa after a shaky start to World Cup qualifying.
Akonnor and assistant coaches David Duncan and Richard Kingson were dismissed a week after Ghana (...)
Tunisia maintained their perfect start to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers after beating Zambia 2-0 on Tuesday in Lusaka to go top of Group B with six points.
Veteran striker Wahbi Khazri opened the scoring as early as the ninth minute from the spot (...)
Tunisia, Cameroon and Ghana kicked off their World Cup qualifying campaign with convincing victories on Friday.
In Group B, Tunisia's Dylan Bronn, Ellyes Skhiri and captain Wahbi Khazri scored in the second half to deliver a 3-0 victory over (...)
A double from Kelechi Iheanacho gave Nigeria a winning start to their World Cup qualifying campaign as they beat Liberia 2-0 on Friday.
The Leicester City striker opened the scoring midway through the first half before ensuring the win with a (...)
Malaysia says it will ease lockdown restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated as the government seeks to allay public anger against perceived mismanagement of the pandemic.
Daily infections breached 20,000 for the first time Thursday (...)
Rwandan troops have joined Mozambican forces to launch a major offensive against Islamic rebels in northern Mozambique as more troops arrive from South Africa and other neighboring countries to battle the insurgency.
Less than two weeks after (...)
South Africa's resurgence of COVID-19 is setting record numbers of new daily cases, centered in Johannesburg and driven by the delta variant, health officials said Sunday.
More than 26,000 new cases were reported on Saturday, up from 24,000 the (...)
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 (...)
قالت السفارة الروسية في زيمبابوي، اليوم الجمعة، إن سلطات زيمبابوي استلمت من موسكو الدفعة الأولى من لقاح "سبوتنيك V" المضاد لفيروس كورونا المستجد.
وذكرت السفارة - في بيان نقلته قناة روسيا اليوم الإخبارية اليوم الجمعة - أنه "في 9 يونيو، تم تسليم (...)
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 (...)
With more than a week of fierce fighting including beheaded bodies in the streets, the battle for the northern Mozambique town of Palma has highlighted the southern Africa country's insurgency and threats to its multibillion-dollar (...)
South Africa have fired coach Molefi Ntseki after the team's surprise failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations finals that will take place in Cameroon early next year.
The 1996 champions finished third in the qualification pool behind Ghana (...)
The 10th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) will take place from 26 March-1 April, under the slogan "Ten Years of Imagination".
This year's event, which will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Egyptian actress Madiha Yousry's birth, (...)
The African Union is backing calls for drugmakers to waive some intellectual property rights on COVID-19 medicines and vaccines to speed up their rollout to poor countries, the head of its disease control body said on Thursday.
South Africa and (...)
The World Health Organization's global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world's poorest people and tame the pandemic accelerates.
A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the (...)
In his policy statement before Egypt's new parliament on 31 January, Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir said that it had been planned to implement 2,173 projects at a total cost of LE1,522 billion from 2014 to 2024 in the sectors for which the (...)
A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived in Robert Mugabe International Airport in Zimbabwe's capital here on early Monday morning.
The 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines are the first batch that Zimbabwe has received as it steps up (...)
