AFRICA

Disney’s latest anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, showcases some of the young African creatives now giving African animation a global footprint. SPECIAL FEATURE | BIRD AGENCY | Disney’s ‘Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire’ is an anthology series blending various mythologies with sci-fi and fantasy. It consists of ten episodes created by …

The S&P Global Ratings assigned a AA-rating to the debut transaction, the highest rating for hybrid capital Abidjan, Ivory Coast | THE INDEPENDENT |  The African Development Bank Group has received global recognition for its inaugural hybrid capital issuance, positioning the Bank as a pioneer in innovative sustainable financing. The …

NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDETN | The Kenya Shilling has steadily been declining against most currencies, including global leaders like the US Dollar and regional currencies, mainly the Uganda and Tanzania Shilling. For so long, the Uganda Shilling traded at an average of 30 to the Kenya Shilling and one …

UN, New York US | Xinhua | In a short statement released by his spokesperson, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the coup in Niger. “The secretary-general is following closely the situation in Niger. He condemns in the strongest terms any effort to seize power by force and to undermine …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The business community is teaming up with the governments and the East African Community to promote Contract Farming as a way of boosting the food sector and farmers’ incomes in the region. Whether the idea will be successful and how long it will take, is …

Addia Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | China and the African continent, under the umbrella of the African Union (AU), have vowed to strengthen the already fruitful military cooperation so as to realize their common aspirations toward securing peace and stability in Africa and beyond. This came during a reception marking …

Kinshasa, DRC | Xinhua | At least 13 civilians were killed from Saturday to Sunday by a soldier of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in the village of Nyamamba in the eastern province of Ituri, a local military spokesman said on Sunday. According to …

  Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | At least nine people were killed on Sunday in a civilian plane crash at Port Sudan airport in the country’s eastern Red Sea State, the Sudanese Armed Forces said. The evening crash of an Antonov plane at the airport was due to “a technical …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen here on Friday. China and Ethiopia are good brothers going through thick and thin, good friends …

Corporations in Africa are at the forefront of a transformative revolution aimed at addressing the challenge of rising education costs, particularly in tertiary education, by providing essential resources to foster innovation across the continent. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | One example of a growing trend in Africa is splashed …