More investment needed from Japanese businesses into Africa – Adesina
August 29, 2022 President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has said Japanese businesses should invest more in Africa, where investment opportunities and returns on investment were…
AU decries reports of ill treatment as Africans try to flee Ukraine
March 1, 2022 The African Union (AU) said on Monday that it was disturbed by reports that African citizens in Ukraine are being refused the right to cross borders to…
U.N. chief slams COVID-19 ‘travel apartheid’ as unacceptable
Dec. 2, 2021 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that travel restrictions imposed over COVID-19 that isolate any one country or region as “not only deeply unfair and…
AU restates demand for unconditional removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe
Oct. 27, 2021 The African Union Commission (AU) has reiterated its demand for the immediate and unconditional removal of sanctions imposed against the Republic of Zimbabwe, and in support of…
African Union chair calls for release of Sudan’s political leaders, respect of human rights
Oct. 25, 2021 The African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat, has called for the release of all arrested political leaders and the necessary strict respect of human rights. Mahamat…
Mali crisis deepens as President Keita resigns, dissolves parliament after detention by military
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests…
It is untrue that African countries are boycotting WEF over xenophobia – SA govt
Presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko of South Africa told The Citizen that she was “quite sure” there was “absolutely no truth” to “rumours” that Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
Foiled Coup: Gabon Arrests Four Military Officers
President Ali Bongo of Gabon Gabon foiled an attempted military coup on Monday, arresting several plotters just hours after they took over state radio in a bid to…