(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry will travel to Nigeria and Senegal to engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The special presidential envoy will arrive Abuja […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kaltum Rufa’i, Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, says the government is determined to end the activities of commercial sex workers in the state. Rufa’i, in an interview, noted that there were state laws against such activity. She added that the government would investigate the report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gambia’s government is investigating whether the deaths of dozens of young children from kidney failure in recent months are linked to a paracetamol syrup, the head of the country’s health service said on Thursday. A spike in cases of acute kidney injury among children under the age of five was detected in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali has appointed an interim prime minister to act in place of leader Choguel Maiga, who is resting amid media reports he had been hospitalised. Col. Abdoulaye Maiga, currently government spokesman and minister of territorial administration, is the new acting prime minister, a government statement said. Earlier this month, Paris-based Jeune Afrique […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The rotation of peacekeeping troops in and out of Mali has resumed after a month’s suspension by the Malian government, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. The rotations began Monday with a contingent from Bangladesh, said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. No fewer than 400 soldiers from Senegal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the President-elect of Kenya, William Ruto, on his victory in the general elections The President also commended the people of Kenya for the peaceful and transparent outcome of the elections, which once again demonstrated that the democratic process, values and principles remain the best way for the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A frontline Pan-African social enterprise, Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has chided the Government of Sierra Leone over its recent shutdown of the internet in the West African nation, following political protests that erupted. PIN essentially builds ICT-enabled support systems and advocates for digital rights to improve the livelihoods of under-served young Africans. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Six police officers were killed in anti-government protests in northern and western Sierra Leone on Wednesday, the head of police said on Thursday. Two officers were killed in the capital, Freetown, three in the northern town of Kamakwie and one in the northern city of Makeni, police inspector general William Fayia Sellu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has refuted claims of writing a letter to the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, tasking him to give the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, a chance in the forthcoming 2023 presidential elections. Akufo-Addo also noted that he never informed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Guinea Bissau has experienced four coups since independence from Portugal in 1974 and is currently in turmoil. Nigeria Peacekeeping force used to illustrate the story [Photo Credit: Premium Times Nigeria. The Nigerian navy shipped military hardware and contingent to Guinea Bissau on Saturday on a peacekeeping mission under the auspices of ECOWAS. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has announced a new $25 million catalytic seed funding to roll out a first-ever Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Cameroon. ECW supports quality education outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and other crisis-affected girls and boys, so no […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a grant of $2 million to boost food production in Sierra Leone. The programme falls under the AfDB’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility, a response to the global food crisis that resulted from the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank Group has approved a grant of $3.5 million from the African Development Fund’s Transition Support Facility as additional financing for a rice value chain transformation project in Gambia. The Rice Value Chain Transformation Programme was started in December 2018, with total grant financing of $7 million from the African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Equatorial Guinea, says increasing storage capacity of refined oil and gas products is a viable solution to resolving the challenge of fuel scarcity. Mr Gabriel Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea, made this known on Wednesday, while responding to questions from journalists, during a Media briefing organised by the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced the death of two persons from the country’s first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus disease. The development was announced in a statement issued on Monday. According to the statement, two deaths have been recorded and at least 98 contacts have been traced and quarantined. African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $66.39 million support package for Guinea to enable the West African nation increase access to electricity. The funding package consists of a $4.17 million grant and a $9.37 million loan from the African Development Fund, the concessional arm of the AfDB and a $24.13 million […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $400,000 technical assistance grant to the Deposit and Consignment Office of Côte d’Ivoire (CDC-CI), a State bank handling official deposits. A public financial institution serving the general interest, the CDC-CI was created in June 2018. Its goals include mobilizing and managing public and private funds […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a €121 million loan to Senegal for implementation of an emergency agricultural programme that will boost food production and cushion impacts of war in Ukraine. This loan is the first approved under the AfDB’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility, an initiative to avert a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria and Portugal on Friday in Lisbon signed several Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) for cooperation in different sectors. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said the signing ceremony was done by cabinet level officials from the two countries as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s State Visit to the European […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday strongly condemned an attack in Kidal, a city in northern Mali, against a convoy of UN peacekeepers that claimed the life of a blue helmet. The Guinean peacekeeper was killed by an improvised explosive device, which detonated during a UN Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) mine […]
