Ethiopia has requested the United States to restore its status under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that allows the East African nation to access the U.S. market with duty free goods.

Automatic gunshots were heard on Tuesday morning near the gendarmerie school in Faladié, a suburb of Bamako in an apparent terrorist attack which has been quelled. According to witnesses, the shots ...

The Presidency in Nigeria has announced the take-off of the $550m upstream gas project between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) and TotalEnergies on the development of the ...

This impressive performance, exceeding the previous year’s rate of 8.2%, underscores the country’s resilience amidst global economic headwinds. A key driver of this growth has been strong consumer ...

Brazzaville, Dar es Salaam, and Luanda of Congo, Tanzania and Angola respectively are also predicted to be hotspots by 2035, EIU’s report revealed on Monday. Traditional African megacities like Cairo, ...

Searches carried out at the homes of three suspected members of the Islamic State (EI) in Morocco have led to the seizure of electronic equipment, sharp weapons and a wooden plaque bearing the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana says that the new Jamestown Fishing Harbour will create jobs and empower the domestic economy. Inaugurating the facility, the President said that apart ...

The region, already grappling with a severe hunger crisis, is facing an even more dire situation as a result of the floods. WFP is working tirelessly to provide critical food and nutrition assistance ...

South Africa’s Minister of Energy and Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has expressed deep concern regarding the increasing threat posed by nuclear weapons to global peace and security. Presenting ...

As the countdown to the 2024 Africa International Investment Summit and Trade Exhibition (AITE), holding in September in New York and Atlanta, Georgia, begins, the confirmation that First Bank, ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has ranked Ghana as a Tier One entity on the 2024 Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) which was released last Friday. Ghana scored 99.27 per cent on the ...

Several districts of the Senegalese capital Dakar were suddenly cut off from the electricity supply in the middle of the day, with disturbances reported for several hours. Other parts of the country ...