Africa emerges as new market for Vietnamese rice
October 16, 2025 | 18:10
As the Philippines and Indonesia tighten rice imports, Vietnamese exporters are expanding into Africa, where demand for the grain is rising rapidly.
Mombasa summit demands Africa owns its AI future
August 27, 2025 | 00:10
As coders debated open-source versus data colonialism, startups pitched Swahili LLMs—will servers stay on African soil?
Digital Finance Africa returns July 3 with bold fintech agenda
June 11, 2025 | 09:00
Africa’s leading finance event explores digital innovation and financial inclusion for 2025.
45 CEOs, 6 ministers and One Head of State Take the Stage at Future Investment Initiative Institute Pre Summits on Investing in Africa, and Women in Finance
October 29, 2024 | 02:57
The Future Investment Initiative Institute annual conference begins today in Riyadh , bringing together world leaders, CEOs, and executives from various sectors including finance, energy, technology, and entertainment.
France to invest in efforts to produce more Covid vaccine in Africa: Macron
May 29, 2021 | 10:47
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday vowed to invest in the production of more vaccines in Africa, a continent where less than two percent of people have been immunised against Covid-19.
Vaccine studies offer new hope as WHO warns on Africa
July 21, 2020 | 10:00
Two studies offered new hope of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned about a possible acceleration of the disease in Africa.
Virus surge sparks SAfrica curfew and Spain local lockdown
July 13, 2020 | 08:42
South Africa re-imposed a nationwide curfew on Sunday while Spain's Catalonia region forced hundreds of thousands of residents back into lockdown as coronavirus cases accelerated in many parts of the world.
COVID-19: WHO warns pandemic accelerating in Africa
June 12, 2020 | 08:28
GENEVA: The speed the new coronavirus jumped from 100,000 to 200,000 confirmed cases in Africa shows just how quickly the pandemic is accelerating on the continent, the World Health Organization said on Thursday (Jun 11).
Coronavirus could infect more than 200 million in Africa: WHO modelling
May 16, 2020 | 09:14
PARIS: The new coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a WHO modelling study that says nearly a quarter of a billion people will be infected.
First coronavirus death in Sub-Saharan Africa as WHO warns 'prepare for worst'
March 19, 2020 | 13:46
Sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday (Mar 18) recorded its first coronavirus death, a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso, as the head of the World Health Organisation urged the continent to "prepare for the worst".
Nigeria confirms COVID-19 case, first in sub-Saharan Africa
February 29, 2020 | 09:35
Nigeria on Friday (Feb 28) announced the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa.
Big dreams in Africa for Russian businesses
October 18, 2019 | 17:19
From diamonds and arms to nuclear power and oil, Russia has major business ambitions in Africa, even if it is coming late to the party.
Huawei turns to Africa to offset US blacklist
June 10, 2019 | 06:00
As the US leads a drive for the West to shun Huawei over security fears, the Chinese tech giant has sought to strengthen its position in Africa, where it is already well-established.
Child marriage costs countries billions in lost earnings: World Bank
December 06, 2018 | 19:52
Respect Ruvimbo Topodzi was 15 and walking home from school in her native Zimbabwe when a 22-year-old man asked her out. She turned him down but it was too late.
Siemens takes the world on the “digital silk road”
June 25, 2018 | 13:20
The Belt and Road Initiative is China’s ambitious project to boost trade and infrastructure investment in about 90 countries along the ancient Silk Road trade routes from Asia to Europe and Africa.
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