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Russia and Ukraine are major wheat, sunflower, aluminum or nickel producers. Both countries play key roles in the world’s supply of raw materials destined for industrial and food sectors. This episode of Business Africa focuses on the long and the short-term consequences the crisis may have on African economies. Russia-Ukraine conflict, how will it affect African economies? Since the crisis… Read More

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrated its 50 birthday at a special session in Kenya’s capital Thursday, calling for more action worldwide to overcome climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising levels of pollution and waste. On Wednesday, the agency passed a key resolution to start negotiating an international treaty to ban plastic pollution. Speaking at the ceremony, Kenyan President Uhuru… Read More

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, on Thursday to denounce what they describe as the abusive exploitation of the railways by French group Bolloré. The protestors demand the cancellation of the contract with Bolloré’s subsidiary Sitarail and the immediate departure of the French group from the country. “We do not agree. We want Bolloré… Read More

The Libyan parliament’s pick for prime-minister has accused his rival in Tripoli of blocking ministers-in-waiting from travelling to Tobruk, in the east of the country, seat of the Assembly. Former interior minister Fathi Bashagha was appointed last month by the war-torn country’s parliament.His administration was scheduled to be sworn-in this Thursday. Reports in the Libyan media suggest that two members… Read More

The Sankara trial was suspended yet again on Thursday, March 3. Some of the defendants’ lawyers asked for charges of crime against national security be dropped citing the Constitutional Council’s approval of Lt Col Damiba as President after he led a coup. As the trial of pan Africanist icon Thomas Sankara resumed on Thursday, a petition by some of the… Read More

The 4th of March marks 10 years since huge explosions rocked the neighbourhood of Mpila in the capital of Congo, Brazzaville. The blasts at an ammunitions and arms depot killed at least 282 people, and wounded over 2 300. The devastation caused by the explosions led to more than 25 000 displaced. Ten years have passed but many of the… Read More

Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was given a six-month suspended sentence according to reports from the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees. The journalist, who became a symbol for the fight for press freedom in Algeria, had been senteced in August 2020 to three years in prison accused of “inciting an unarmed group”. The sentence was later reduced to two… Read More

Last updated: 57 minutes ago Trains kept arriving to the Polish city of Przemysl on Thursday, bringing hundreds of refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a tearful goodbye at Przemysl train station, a Ukrainian woman had to leave her daughter behind because she had to go back to Ukraine and resume her job as a nurse in a military… Read More

James Harden saw the fake beards dangling from chins, oversized cutouts of his head waving above outstretched arms and heard 76ers fans shouting from the stands that they loved him. Harden knew from his first step on the court that his nearly 14-month, three-team journey – that he in large part orchestrated – brought him exactly where he wanted to… Read More

Ukraine is finding it hard to win attention in Southern Africa. Kyiv’s ambassador to South Africa says the region retains a lot of sympathy for Moscow dating from the apartheid era. In the 1970’s and 80’s, the Soviet Union supported several anti-colonial movements in southern Africa. “You will see that there is a very strong sentiment of South Africans about… Read More