AFRICA

Dar, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzania on Saturday expressed disappointment over a decision by Denmark to close its embassy in the east African nation by 2024. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Liberata Mulamula, said in a statement that Tanzania looks forward to continued bilateral cooperation with …

Bamako, Mali | Xinhua |  The Local Committee for Monitoring the Transition in Mali (CLST) welcomed the transitional government’s decision to lift restrictive measures on former Malian transitional president Bah N’Daw and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. In a statement, it also welcomed the measures taken by the government to …

✳  FIBA Afro Basketball 🇺🇬Uganda 80  🇨🇲Cameroon 66 Kigali, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Basketball team, the Silverbacks have defeated Cameroon 80-66 in the FIBA Afro Basketball finals at Kigali Arena in Rwanda. The silverbacks looked more organized Friday both defensively and offensively compared to their opener against …

BioNTech affirmed its intention to manufacture any vaccines arising from its development of vaccine candidates to fight malaria and tuberculosis on the African continent Berlin, Germany | THE INDEPENDENT | President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission and …

Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping to get 10 percent of people in Africa vaccinated against the COVID-19 by the end of September, a WHO regional official said on Thursday, calling for enhanced COVID-19 vaccine cooperation. “We are still hopeful that 10 percent of people …

Johannesburg, S.A. | Xinhua | The South African Airways (SAA) will resume operations on September 23, more than 15 months after it was grounded by COVID-19 and business rescue, the company said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon. “After months of diligent work, we are delighted that SAA is resuming service …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Kenyan regional bank, KCB Group, has completed the acquisition of Banque Populaire du Rwanda (BPR) from Atlas Mara Mauritius and Arise. Joshua Oigara, CEO of KCB, said the purchase follows the securing of the requisite regulatory approvals in Kenya, and Rwanda making the lender the majority …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda and South Sudan are in talks over a growing number of deadly ambushes on South Sudanese territory targeting transit trucks. Okello Oryem, Uganda’s minister of state in charge of international affairs, is in South Sudan’s capital Juba, to discuss stopping the ambushes with his …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday urged police to beef up the fight against organized crime, including terrorism, human and drug trafficking. “There is a tidal wave of cross-border organized crime that needs to be seriously addressed before the situation gets out of …

Kampala, Uganda | Ronald Musoke | Eng. Sylvester Anthony Matemu of Tanzania has begun his two-year rotational role as the head of the Nile Basin Initiative. He takes over from Prof. Seifeldin Hamad Abdalla of Sudan. The Nile Basin Initiative whose headquarters are in Entebbe, Uganda, is a regional inter-governmental partnership …