Three labour unions in Gabon on Tuesday began a nationwide strike action in protest against COVID-19 restrictions and the cost of PCR tests. The unions —…
Author: Olorunwa Lawal
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Tuesday, urged Tunisian authorities to immediately release – or properly charge – former justice minister…
A flare-up of attacks on medical facilities seen during an uprising in Sudan three years ago has recurred during protests against an October coup, further inflaming…
Standard Chartered Plc is closing about half of its branches in Nigeria in a move toward digital banking as mobile money providers make inroads in the…
Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) has shortened the period of Home-Based Care for coronavirus infected patients from 10 days to a minimum of seven days, followed by…
The Central Bank of Kenya has said it will hold its Monetary Policy Committee will hold the next lending rate setting meeting on January 26. On…
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has approved a set of rules under which it would be able to provide emergency liquidity to local lenders. Banks…
In a drive to register new members, the Atheists In Kenya Society (AIK) is offering medical and funeral coverage. The group suffered a blow recently when…
Kabanga Nickel, a UK-based private company, announced on Monday that Anglo-Australian mining company, BHP Group, has invested $40 million in a Tanzania nickel project, the first…
The annual inflation rate for urban consumer prices in Egypt increased to 5.9% from 5.6% in November, the country’s state statistics agency, Central Agency for Public…