AFRICA

Johannesburg, S.A | Xinhua | The International Trade Centre (ITC) said on Tuesday that it has launched a training program for small businesses on how to export within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). “The How to Export with the AfCFTA training program is crucial in empowering African small businesses …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | African Union (AU) on Tuesday condemned the twin bomb blasts in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, which left six people dead including three suicide bombers. The continental body in a tweet said it stands in solidarity with the people of Uganda following the terrorist attacks …

Arusha, Tanzania | Xinhua | Member states of the East African Community (EAC) have been urged to expedite the comprehensive review of the EAC Common External Tariff (CET) in order to promote trade and industrialization in the region, the EAC said in a statement released on Monday. Betty Maina, chairperson of …

Cape Town, South Africa | Xinhua | FW de Klerk Foundation, established by South Africa’s last apartheid president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, on Sunday announced that the late president’s cremation and funeral will take place on Nov. 21 in a private manner for family members. The ceremony will not be …

Mogadishu, Somalia | Xinhua | Two Ugandan soldiers accused of killing seven Somali civilians in August while serving under the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) have been sentenced to death while three others to 39 years each in jail after being found guilty by a court-martial. AMISOM said the Court Martial …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | At least five protesters were killed on Saturday during mass demonstrations in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and other cities, the health ministry in the dissolved Sudanese government announced. The capital Khartoum and other cities on Saturday witnessed huge demonstrations in protests against measures recently …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua |  Kenyan anti-terrorism police officers said Saturday they are interrogating a terror suspect who was arrested at a shopping center in Nairobi. The police said the suspect, identified as Ali Abdullahi Hussein, had approached a police officer on patrol at around 2:00 a.m. and wanted to …

Dar, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Friday 10,361 villages out of the country’s 12,317 villages have been connected to electricity by October 2021. Adjourning a two-week parliamentary session in the capital Dodoma, Majaliwa said the number of villages connected to electricity was equivalent to …

Frontline communities ask investment banks to stop financing climate crisis Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | As the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, came to a somewhat disappointing close on Nov.12, indigenous community rights activists gathered outside the offices of banking giants, JPMorgan Chase, in Glasgow, to demand …

De Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa and key actor in the country’s transition to democracy, has died Cape Town, South Africa | Xinhua | The presiding officers of the parliament of South Africa on Thursday extended their condolences to the family of South Africa’s last apartheid president, FW …