AFRICA

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya’s state-owned National Housing Corporation (NHC) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector lending arm, on Thursday signed the financial advisory services agreement to boost the supply of affordable housing units in the east African nation. Amena Arif, IFC country manager for …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Thursday demanded the return of over half a million liters of fuel seized by armed men in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. In a press statement, Executive Director of the WFP David Beasley said a group of armed …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenya Airways (KQ), the country’s national carrier, said Wednesday it reduced its loss to 9.86 billion shillings (about 82.22 million U.S. dollars) in the first six months ending June from 95.75 million dollars recorded in a similar period in 2021. Allan Kilavuka, the chief executive officer …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | The Fifth Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation took place on Thursday in a combined online and offline mode, with delegates from the two sides agreeing to further strengthen media cooperation. Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central …

Kigali, Rwanda | Xinhua | A forum of internet stakeholders opened Wednesday in Rwanda’s capital Kigali to discuss how to improve local and regional network interconnection. The Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) was organized by the Internet Society (ISOC) and the African IXP Association (AFIX) in collaboration with the Rwanda …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | A team of Kenyan lawyers on Tuesday filed a case against the British government at the European Court of Human Rights seeking compensation for historical injustices committed during the colonial period. Lawyer Joel Kimutai Bosek, who is based in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, told Xinhua …

Tanzania on Tuesday began conducting its National Population and Housing Census with President Samia Suluhu Hassan being among the first persons to be counted at State House in Chamwino in the capital Dodoma Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzania on Tuesday began conducting its National Population and Housing Census …

The Japan-Africa conference in Tunis from August 27 to 28 will give Japan a chance to get relations back on track after the upheavals of the pandemic | NEIL FORD | Japan’s relations with the African continent are again in the spotlight as the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African …

  Nairobi, Kenya  | THE STAR KENYA |  Leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party Julius Malema has yet again asked Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga to concede defeat. He has told the ODM leader not to go down in history as one who was desperate for power. Raila has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Raila Odinga, the runner-up in the 2022 general elections in Kenya has explained that his move to petition the Supreme Court of Kenya is aimed at not only making him president but saving Kenya from criminal cartels. Odinga as 1st Petitioner and Martha Karua, 2nd …