Aid agencies have suspended their operations in an area of Tigray in Ethiopia after 56 civilians were killed in an airstrike , the United Nations said Sunday. “Humanitarian partners suspended activities in the area due to the ongoing threats of drone strikes,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement. According to the…
The threat of the resurgent coronavirus will hang heavily over the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament when it opens on Sunday in Cameroon. Still, organizers are pressing ahead with the monthlong championship, which features 24 teams, from defending champion Algeria in the far north of the continent to the tiny island nation of Comoros out in the Indian…
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this press briefing as we conclude one of our planning meetings in preparation for the General Elections scheduled for 9th August 2022. The Commission is on course in planning and putting in place measures and mechanisms to ensure free, fair, credible, verifiable, accountable and transparent General Election. Towards this end, multiple…
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this press briefing as we conclude one of our planning meetings in preparation for the General Elections scheduled for 9th August 2022. The Commission is on course in planning and putting in place measures and mechanisms to ensure free, fair, credible, verifiable, accountable and transparent General Election. Towards this end, multiple…
China’s foreign minister says his country will appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa region NAIROBI, Kenya. China’s foreign minister says his country will appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa region, where Ethiopia and Eritrea have been fighting forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region and Somalia is in the grip of a political crisis caused by a…
Before sunrise in a quiet village in Gran Canaria, an island off the coast of northwest Africa, a team of scientists shuffles along the port’s wooden boardwalk toward a row of nine containers floating in the ocean. “Hurry up, it’s going to get light soon,” says one bleary-eyed researcher to another, as they submerge a hefty, cube-shaped device for…
Before sunrise in a quiet village in Gran Canaria, an island off the coast of northwest Africa, a team of scientists shuffles along the port’s wooden boardwalk toward a row of nine containers floating in the ocean. “Hurry up, it’s going to get light soon,” says one bleary-eyed researcher to another, as they submerge a hefty, cube-shaped device for…
The online application system re-opened yesterday, 28 December 2021, and will close at midnight on 28 January 2022 CAPE TOWN, South Africa. The Delegated Authority has announced the re-opening of the Online Application System for the Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) for registered users and current applicants only. The reopening of the system does not apply to new applicants. The…
The awards, announced during an online event on 23 December 2021, aim to encourage the use of new technologies in Islamic economics and finance JEDDAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) (www.IsDBInstitute.org) and the Islamic Financial Engineering Laboratory (IFE Lab) have announced winners of the second edition of the International Award for the Best Application…
The aim is to enlist the collaboration of all parties concerned for a coordinated control and management of transboundary pests and diseases of plants and animals PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, A workshop focusing on Plant Biosecurity Awareness and two video clips in English and Mauritian Creole on the topic, were launched this morning by the Attorney General, Minister of Agro-Industry…