Tag: Africaglobalvillage

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria raised $14.25 billion Wednesday at a donor conference attended by French President Emmanuel Macron, as decades of progress against the diseases are set back by Covid. It was the highest amount ever pledged for a multilateral health organization — but fell far short of the ambitious goal of $18 billion after… Read More

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 health crisis, the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2022 opened Wednesday at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria, South Africa. The Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2022 is an opportunity for companies from across the world to work together. Countries like The U.S., Belgium, and China will be present. Minister of Defense Thandi… Read More

Today’s edition of Business Africa is specially dedicated to the role that business can play in solving some of the continent’s biggest challenges. – Global Africa Business Initiative launched at UN – The Global African Business Initiative which brings together key stakeholders in the development of the continent was launched last week by the United Nations Global Impact. The initiative… Read More

The West African nation of Mali celebrated its 62nd anniversary of independence on Thursday. The country’s leader Colonel Assimi Goita, in charge since taking power in a coup two years ago, reviewed troops at a military parade to mark the occasion in the capital, Bamako. He was joined at the parade by the head of Guinea’s military junta, Col Mamady… Read More

Uganda on Thursday said it had detected six new cases of Ebola, raising the total number of confirmed cases to seven. A local daily reported on Wednesay that the death toll had risen to 12, citing authorities. On Tuesday, the east African country confirmed an outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever in the central district of Mubende, about 150 km west… Read More

Dozens of women holding babies rushed to take their places on wooden benches at a clinic in Zimbabwe while a nurse took a separate group of anxious mothers and their children through a back door and into another room. The nurse quickly closed the door behind them. The women were all at the Mbare Polyclinic in Zimbabwe´s capital, Harare, to… Read More

The leader of Tunisia’s Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, Rached Ghannouchi, greets his supporters after appearing before an anti-terrorism investigating judge in connection with the alleged sending of jihadists to Syria and Iraq, a case described as politically motivated by his movement. Rached Ghannouchi, a key player in Tunisian politics for over a decade, appeared before a judge after being questioned overnight… Read More

The ruling junta in Guinea has launched a violent attack on the current president of ECOWAS ahead of a summit of the organization, denouncing Wednesday’s remarks as a “disgrace”. In the attack on Thursday (September 22), the junta accused the ECOWAS president of practicing “clown diplomacy. “The crude lie and the remarks which are similar to intimidation are nowadays retrograde… Read More

Guinea’s military leader will attend Thursday Mali’s 62nd-anniversary celebrations. Mamadi Doumbouya landed Wednesday in Bamako. He was welcomed by Mali’s military ruler upon arrival.  The “goodwill and working visit” as stated by a Malian communiqué came on the eve of two major events.  Bamako’s 62nd independence anniversary and a high-stakes ECOWAS extraordinary summit on the sidelines of the UN general… Read More

Hundreds of people marched through Ivory Coast economic capital Abidjan Tuesday. It is the latest demonstration in solidarity with 46 soldiers who were arrested in Mali in July. To end the crisis Bamako has suggested a prisoner swap but Abidjan calls it “blackmail“. Members of the CONASU political organization and relatives of the troops insisted they are not mercenaries as… Read More