Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday celebrated Africa’s biggest football tournament and toured a US-funded port, hoping to prove the United States is “all in” for the continent despite global crises.Blinken is touring four democracies on the Atlantic Coast — Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola — as Russia and China make inroads …
Ivory Coast slipped to the brink of a humiliating exit from the Africa Cup of Nations as the hosts suffered a 4-0 thrashing by Equatorial Guinea in their final Group A game in Abidjan on Monday.Emilio Nsue scored a double to follow up his hat-trick against Guinea-Bissau as Equatorial Guinea finished top of the group …
The inauguration of Liberia’s new president Joseph Boakai, who succeeds former football star George Weah, was on Monday marked by the 79-year-old leader’s brief spell of exhaustion due to soaring temperatures, his party’s secretary general told AFP.Boakai, whose age and health are the source of much discussion in the West African country, had to pause …
Cameroon on Monday launched the first malaria vaccination programme to be offered nationwide and as a matter of routine, in a step the WHO has described as “historic”.The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people a year — 95 percent of them in Africa — according to the World Health Organization.Children under five years old …
Cameroon launches historic large-scale malaria jab campaignMon, 22 Jan 2024 18:00:47 GMT Read More »
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday the United States was committed to deeper relations with Africa despite global crises as he opened a trip in the shadow of coups and the rising influence of Russia and China on the continent.Blinken is touring four democracies on the Atlantic Coast — Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria …
US ‘all in’ for Africa, Blinken says opening coastal tourMon, 22 Jan 2024 17:29:43 GMT Read More »
Imane Ayissi is on a mission to put authentic African textiles in the spotlight but faces an uphill battle as a pioneer African couturier at Paris Fashion Week. The bark of the Obom tree, kente cloth from Ghana and kapok fibres from Burkina Faso are some of the textiles — little-known in Europe — that the …
Imane Ayissi brings African tradition to Paris coutureMon, 22 Jan 2024 17:11:28 GMT Read More »
Thick layers of melted wax from candles and flowers bore silent tribute Monday as colleagues marked a year since the discovery of the mutilated body of an abducted Cameroon reporter.Co-workers of Martinez Zogo created the shrine to the journalist, who dared to speak out against corruption and cronyism before his abduction and brutal murder last January.The …
A year on, colleagues remember slain Cameroon journalistMon, 22 Jan 2024 17:00:57 GMT Read More »
While the explosion of debt is throwing a shadow over global economic growth, experts warn that sub-Saharan Africa, where several countries are already in default, is experiencing its worst-ever crisis.The rise in interest rates and over-indebtedness is already crimping the ability of countries to finance their development, as a number of African leaders emphasised at …
Africa in debt spiral as restructuring efforts drag onMon, 22 Jan 2024 15:52:07 GMT Read More »
Nigeria’s Lagos State, which includes the country’s sprawling economic capital of more than 20 million people, has announced a ban on styrofoam and single-use plastics to curb pollution.The state government said in a statement Sunday the ban would take effect immediately but environmental experts said implementing and enforcing it could be complicated.Many street vendors and …
