Author: AfricaNews
Forty years ago, Lamine Touré, a native of Côte d’Ivoire and owner of the legendary Balattou club, and Suzanne Rousseau launched this ambitious …Read More
Africa’s richest person, the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote, has built the world’s largest single-train oil refinery in Lekki, on the southern outskirts of Lagos. With a crude processingRead More
There have been three recent contamination events inside the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, South Africa’s nuclear regulator said. No radioactive material leaked into the environment and there is no danger to the public, the National Nuclear Regulator said Thursday. The leaks — on June 30, July 2 and July 7 — were contained inside the station and happened during maintenance work, the regulator said. Koeberg, which is located near South Africa’s second biggest city, Cape Town, is Africa’s only nuclear power station and began operating in the 1980s during apartheid.Read More
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Massad Boulos, senior adviser to the US president on Arab and African affairs, discussed the conflicts in Sudan and Libya, developments in the Horn of Africa, and Egypt’s concerns over Nile water security during talks on Sunday, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said. The two officials reaffirmed the importance of continuedRead More
FREETOWN: West African leaders on Sunday signed an agreement approving the construction of a gas pipeline linking Nigeria to Morocco at a summit of regional bloc ECOWAS in Sierra Leone’s capitalRead More
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, July 20 (Reuters) – Asian share markets were hesitant on Monday as the escalating conflict in the Gulf lifted oil prices and fanned fears of inflation, while a packed week ofRead More
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, July 20 (Reuters) – Asian share markets were hesitant on Monday as the escalating conflict in the Gulf lifted oil prices and fanned fears of inflation, while a packed week of major tech earnings will further test investor faith in…Read More
During a two-day state visit to the DPRK in June, Leaders Xi and Kim reached a series of important common understandings, which Wang said charted a blueprint for China-DPRK relations in the new era and injected strong impetus into the socialist causes of both countries.Read More
The Chinese hit, which was filmed almost entirely in the Teochew dialect, tells the poignant tale of Nanyang migrants torn between working in Southeast Asia and longing for their hometowns in China.Read More
During their talks, the two senior officials exchanged views on the situation in Iran and coordinated their positions, with both expressing concern over the deterioration of the current situation.Read More