AFRICA

CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | Egypt seeks to establish power interconnection with Europe to export electricity to European countries, Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker said Tuesday. Shaker made the remarks during a meeting with Gordon Dickie, chairman of IM Power, to discuss ways to boost cooperation …

North Kivu, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations  (UN) Humanitarian Aid Department has condemned last week’s bombings in Mweso town, North Kivu province that left 19 civilians dead. The bombings happened during heavy fighting between the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels and the Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of …

 IMF tracking shows that no African state has sought comprehensive debt relief in over a year indicating a trend of growing fiscal hygiene across the region. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY |  Countries in Africa are showing signs of improving fiscal management, as they navigate through a cascading set of global …

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ALGIERS, ALGERIA | Xinhua | Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday reiterated his country’s unwavering support for Sudan. Tebboune made the remarks at a joint press conference in Algiers with visiting Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. The president emphasized Algeria’s commitment to “stand alongside the Sudanese …

BAMAKO, MALI | Xinhua | Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are no longer members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), military officials of the three countries decided in a joint statement read this Sunday in the television news of Malian television (ORTM). On the Malian side, the …

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA | Xinhua | The African Union’s high-level delegation arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Saturday evening to assess the ongoing troop withdrawal, whose second phase began in December 2023. The African Union Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) said the AU team, which is led by Alhaji Sarjoh Bah, …

LUSAKA, Zambia | Xinhua | About 1.8 million Zambians in cholera hotspot areas have gotten the oral cholera vaccine as the exercise comes to a close, health authorities said on Saturday. Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo said in an update statement on the cholera situation that the vaccine was administered …

TEMA, Ghana | Xinhua | Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday commissioned the completion of the first phase of a Chinese-built oil refinery in Tema, a port city in southern Ghana. The Sentuo Oil Refinery, which was built by a private Chinese company, is expected to provide thousands …

KIGALI, RWANDA | Xinhua | The remains of nearly 120 victims of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi have been retrieved from mass graves in a village in southern Rwanda’s Huye District, roughly 30 years after the genocide, an official of the association of genocide survivors group (IBUKA) said Wednesday. Over …