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Kenya did not have well-structured channels for reporting, tracing and reuniting missing children with their love ones and this prompted individuals to step in to provide a remedy as well create a data base of missing children that is easily accessible by the public. Ndungu Nyoro the founder Affecto has also put his effort behind giving voice to missing children… Read More

Ethiopians in Bahir Dar, capital of the Amhara region have shared their thoughts and hopes the day after the country voted in legislative and regional elections. Some 38 million were registered to vote in Africa’s second-most populous nation. But many must wait until September, with elections postponed or cancelled in one-fifth of national constituencies because of war, insecurity and logistical… Read More

Sudan’s premier warned Tuesday of “deeply worrying” fractures within the country’s security forces and called for reconciliation between civilian and military political factions. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok made the comments as he announced an initiative to unify the factions guiding Sudan through a fragile transition following the April 2019 ouster of dictator Omar al-Bashir. Sudan has been led by a… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Ballot papers were still being processed at some polling stations in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday after parliamentary elections. At other polling centres, however, the votes had been counted and results were posted at the entrance. At the Kirkos polling station in Addis Ababa, the results went up at 0800 local time (0500GMT). Voters soon gathered… Read More

The lifting of financial sanctions by the European Union has been welcomed with relief in Burundi. Since 2016, the EU had suspended its aid after a political crisis triggered by former president Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term. For Jean Dieu Mutabazi, president of the National Observatory for the Prevention and Eradication of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against… Read More

Burundi’s presidency announced the European Union had lifted its sanctions on Monday after meeting with the EU ambassador to the country. This move, which comes one year after President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s coming to power, will mean the Central African country will no longer be subject to article 96, which suspended financial cooperation between the European Union and Burundi. The sanctions,… Read More

Building a bridge between the young African entrepreneurs and its Diaspora is the objective of Pass Africa, presented by the Coordinator of the Presidential Council for Africa, who joined the most innovative startups of the continent, gathered at Vivatech in Paris. For Wilfrid Lauriano Do Rego, CPA Coordinator; the transfer of knowledge and experience is essential to accelerate the transformation… Read More

Congolese Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso acknowledged on Monday the financial difficulties his country is facing, and promissed to reduce a debt that has recently increased. “Our financial difficulties, compounded by the health crisis, have increased our debt and reduced our ability to service it. We must therefore do everything possible to make the public debt sustainable. Our debt currently… Read More

The World Health Organization is in talks to create the first-ever technology transfer hub for Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa, a move that would boost supply to the African continent that’s desperately in need of doses. The new consortium will include drug makers Biovac and Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the Africa Centres for Disease Control… Read More

Africa’s modelling world withne ssed a turning point in 2010 when South Africa and Nigeria organised fashion weeks that were recognised on the international scene as “select” in fashion world. The recent Black Lives Matter movement and high-profile advocates for the beauty of black women are also helping to change trends around the world. “You didn’t have a modelling industry… Read More