Tags GENERAL AfDB launches $3 billion “Fight COVID-19” social bond The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced that it had raised $3 billion in a three-year bond to help ease the
Tags GENERAL Mali holds election despite COVID-19 concerns and kidnapping of opposition leader Mali held its long-delayed parliamentary election on Sunday despite an insurgency in its central and northern regions, concerns about coronavirus
Tags GENERAL Economist weighs in on G20 Virtual Summit The virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit was convened to discuss the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the meeting, all
Tags GENERAL Rwanda to downgrade genocide commemoration amid outbreak: official Rwanda’s 26th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi will take place, but with limited events to be held
Tags GENERAL More South Africa health workers infected with COVID-19 A 70-year-old doctor in Free State province in South is now under intensive care as the country witnessed a
Tags GENERAL Nigeria reports 16 new COVID-19 cases, total up to 97 Nigeria on Saturday reported 16 new confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus, according to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control
Tags GENERAL July 23, 2021 is the tentative date for start of postponed Tokyo Olympics The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese organisers are in final stages of talks to set the opening date for
Tags GENERAL Two week lock-down to begin in Ghana to curb COVID-19 Ghana is set to go into a lock down in two of its main metropolitan regions from Monday, in efforts
Tags GENERAL Uganda coronavirus cases rise to 30 The COVID-19 cases in Uganda more than doubled within two days after rising to 30 on Saturday. On Friday, the
Tags GENERAL COVID-19: Minimal genocide commemoration events expected in Rwanda Rwanda’s 26th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi will take place, but with limited events to be held