AFRICA

The bank’s cautiously optimistic economic outlook is partly based on the expectation that China will continue to re-open after three years of strict Covid-19 policies Kampala, Uganda | Leo Komminoth | The African Development Bank predicts the continent’s growth will be a stronger-than-expected 4% this year, with China’s ending of strict Covid-19 …

Algiers, Algeria | Xinhua | Algeria and Italy agreed on Monday to build a new pipeline to carry Algeria’s gas and electricity to Europe. At a joint press conference with visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said the project will make Italy “a key distributor of Algerian …

Ouagadogou, Burkina Faso | Xinhua | The government of Burkina Faso has terminated the agreement for the presence of French troops in the country, the state-owned news agency AIB reported Saturday. This termination made Wednesday gives, under the terms of the agreement of Dec. 17, 2018, one month period for the French troops …

Windhoek, Namibia | Xinhua | COVID-19 is blamed as one of the causes of the poor results of the 2022 senior secondary certificate ordinary level and senior secondary certificate advanced subsidiary in Namibia due to the loss of face-to-face teaching and learning time at the pandemic’s peak. Out of more than 38,000 …

FT: Uganda 🇺🇬1-3 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast ⚽ GROUP STANDING Senegal 🇸🇳➖ 6 points Ivory Coast 🇨🇮➖ 4 points Uganda 🇺🇬➖ 4 points DR Congo ➖ 2 points Algiers, Algeria |  CAFONLINE  | Uganda Cranes exited yet another TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament, falling 3-1 to Ivory Coast on Sunday night. …

  Africa’s fintech space continues its pandemic-induced growth with a 25% jump in new finance app installations in 2022, energised by the rapid adoption of mobile banking solutions. Accra, Ghana | BIRD AGENCY | A new report by AppsFlyer and Google analysed more than 140 million installs across 3,000 finance …

United Nations | Xinhua | The armed militia group CODECO reportedly killed seven people in a displaced persons camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN spokesman said on Thursday. The UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, known as MONUSCO, reported the attack took place at the Plaine …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian Vice President Philip Mpango on Thursday called for the protection of water sources that flow into Lake Victoria, one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. Mpango made the call shortly before he laid the foundation stone for a 24.4-billion-Tanzanian-shilling (about 10.4 million U.S. …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua | Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has strongly condemned the abduction of more than 50 women and girls in Burkina Faso. The AU Commission chairperson “condemns in the strongest terms, the abduction of more than 50 women and girls on …

Windhoek, Namibia | Xinhua | The Bank of Namibia, the central bank, said Thursday that it will conduct checks on politically connected people’s wealth and businesses to avoid conflicts of interest. The bank released Thursday the revised Determination on the Appointment, Duties, and Responsibilities of Directors, Principal Officers, and Executive …