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Nigeria will on Monday launch a digital currency, the eNaira, the central bank said, months after it barred banks and financial institutions from dealing in or …
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed at least one person in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Saturday night. The group said that some of its members detonated an explosive device in a bar where “members and spies of the Crusader Ugandan government were gathering” in Kampala on Sunday. The bomb, packed with nails …
A handover ceremony for Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccines is held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 24, 2021. /Xinhua The latest batch of Chinese-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines, totaling 800,000 doses, arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on Sunday, giving a boost to the East African nation’s vaccination efforts. China has …
Kenya’s UN Ambassador Martin Kimani (L) meets with Mali’s Transition President Colonel Assimi Goita (R) in Bamako on October 24, 2021. /AP Mali’s interim authorities will confirm a date for post-coup elections after national reform consultations in December, a representative of a U.N. Security Council delegation said after talks …
Imad Al-Sayah (R, Rear), the head of Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC), speaks during a press conference in Tripoli, Libya, on October 24, 2021./Xinhua Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC) on Sunday announced a plan for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. According to the plan, the polling day …
