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Africa Finance Corporation émet un Eurobond de 500 millions USD sur 7 ans
Andrew Alli, président et directeur général de l’AFC LAGOS, Nigéria, 11 avril 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), une grande institution multilatérale panafricaine de financement et de développement de projet, a émis un Eurobond de 500 millions USD sur 7 ans. Cette obligation senior non garantie porte un…
Read More »Niger: Thousands attend funeral of slain student
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a student killed in a protest in Niger’s capital of Niamey. Three police officers are under arrest following the incident last week, which saw at least 20 people injured. Al Jazeera’s Gerald Tan reports. The post Niger: Thousands attend funeral of slain…
Read More »The Gambia: Former president Jammeh accused of stealing millions
The Gambia’s new government says former president Yahya Jammeh stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the state. The government is launching an investigation and trying to get the money back. Al Jazeer’a Nicolas Haque reports from the capital Banjul. The post The Gambia: Former president Jammeh accused of stealing…
Read More »Congo: A dictator’s dilemma
Why has President Joseph Kabila chosen to cling to power beyond his constitutional term limit – which expired in December of 2016? Why has the man who organised Democratic Republic of Congo‘s only two multiparty elections since independence chosen to sow chaos and instability just when the country needs peace and stability the most?…
Read More »South African schools bar undocumented migrant children
Schools close to South Africa’s borders are refusing to admit hundreds of students because they do not have local documentation. The children are born to foreigners and are unable to get birth certificates in South Africa. Migrant families say the requirements have been ignored for years but schools are now…
Read More »US deploys ‘a few dozen’ troops to Somalia: Pentagon
The United States is deploying “a few dozen” troops to Somalia to assist the national army and conduct unspecified security operations, a US military spokeswoman said on Saturday – the largest such deployment to the Horn of Africa country in about two decades. Samantha Reho, spokeswoman for the US Africa Command…
Read More »Fighting in South Sudan’s Raga kills at least 14 people
At least 14 people have been killed in South Sudan after new fighting erupted between government forces and the main rebel group. Lam Paul Gabriel Lam, the SPLM-IO rebel group’s spokesman, told Reuters news agency on Saturday during the last two days the army has bombed rebel-held areas around Raga –…
Read More »Habib el-Adly: Seven-year jail sentence for corruption
An Egyptian court has sentenced former interior minister Habib el-Adly, who served under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, to seven years in jail for corruption. Adly was found guilty on Saturday of embezzling more than $110mn of public funds. The verdict can be appealed before Egypt’s top civil court, the court…
Read More »Frenzied rescues save more than 2,000 asylum seekers
More than 2,000 asylum seekers trying to reach Europe were plucked from the Mediterranean on Friday in a series of dramatic rescues. An Italian coast guard spokesman said 19 rescue operations by the coast guard or ships operated by non-governmental organisations had saved a total of 2,074 people on 16…
Read More »Three aid workers killed in restive South Sudan
The World Food Programme said on Friday it was “horrified” to learn that three of its South Sudanese workers were killed in violence that claimed at least 16 lives earlier this week. The three men, contracted as porters, appear to have been killed while trying to get to a WFP…
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African Chefs Unite to Defend Continent’s Food Sovereignty
The first African Chefs Gathering and Policy Convening, hosted by the Alliance for Food …
