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Gaborone, Botswana | Xinhua | African countries have been urged to treat football as a business since it has got the potential of solving unemployment amongst the youths, a continental football leader said Monday. Due to the importance of football and the young people of Africa, there is need to interact …

Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict resulting in the disruption of wheat exports has pushed wheat prices higher by 60 percent in Africa, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwunmi Adesina said in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Tuesday. Adesina, in a meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Abbott, a global healthcare leader, this week hosted a media round table to discuss the prevalence and impact of hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of the round table was to raise awareness around a disease that …

  Why it is the world’s poor – 70% of whom live in Africa – who will bear the brunt of Putin’s war COMMENT | ROBAH AREZKI AND MAHMOUD MOHIELDIN | The world’s breadbasket is being wrecked by war. Ukraine and Russia together account for 30% of global wheat and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Virus Research Institute has started a study to investigate why the country and some of its neighbors are reporting low COVID-19 cases. The study is expected to last four years and will look at what contribution the different COVID-19 variants have played in the …

Experts say true infections on the continent are 97 times larger than reported confirmed cases | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 65% of Africans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, a World Health Organisation (WHO) analysis finds. The study finds that true infections on the continent …

Sanctions by the United States and its allies against Russia have worsened food inflation across the African continent Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is felt internationally, but it affects wheat and oil importing African countries worst, a business leader has said. “The Russia-Ukraine conflict …

As the conflict drags on, African countries with trade ties with Russia and Ukraine face wheat and fertilizer supply shortages Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The Russia-Ukraine conflict has rocked several countries in Africa, particularly net importers of commodities, a senior economist has said. Tewodros Mekonnen, an economist at the …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The World Bank on Wednesday projected the economy in Sub-Saharan Africa to slow down to 3.6 percent in 2022 from 4 percent in 2021. The World Bank said the region’s economy is struggling to pick up momentum amid a slowdown in global economic activity, continued supply …

Africa needs to tap into Beijing’s commitment to win-win co-operation for her socio-economic development COMMENT | JOHN PAUL RUGABA | It’s January 2012, and under the intense sunshine of the Addis Ababa sky, the then African Union Chairman, Teodoro Obiang Nguema; president of Equatorial Guinea, among other leaders opened the …