Tags GENERAL Nigerian steel plant to start production 40 years after being built Nigeria’s largest steel plant will finally start production, four decades after it was built. The Ajaokuta mill has cost the
Tags NEWS Kenya pledges improved land-use practices to halt desertification Kenya’s ministry of environment will enact new policy and regulatory tools to promote sustainable land-use practices and halt rapid desertification
Tags GENERAL Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain A migrant rescue boat turned away by Italy and Malta arrived at the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, ending
Tags NEWS Bemba can return to DRC ‘if he wants’: govt Former Democratic Republic of Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba “can return” home if he wants to, following his acquittal
Tags GENERAL Blasts kill 31 people in northeast Nigerian state of Borno – residents Blasts killed at least 31 people in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, two residents said on Sunday, marking the
Tags GENERAL Dragon Boat Festival in Uganda bridges peoples and cultures As people in China celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on Monday, thousands of miles away in Uganda, there was a
Tags GENERAL Ugandan wins top prize for developing bloodless malaria test A young Ugandan software engineer has won a top innovation prize for developing a device which can detect malaria without
Tags GENERAL Sudan central bank chief dies of heart attack in Turkey Sudan’s central bank governor Hazem Abdelqader has died of a heart attack while on a visit to Turkey, the Sudanese
Tags GENERAL Libya warns of environmental disaster after clashes in oil crescent region Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Saturday warned of an environmental disaster after clashes in its eastern Libya’s oil crescent
Tags GENERAL Nigeria gov’t authorises production of herbal medicine for sickle cell anemia Nigeria’s health ministry has given the go ahead to a local pharmaceutical company to commercially produce medicine that could manage