Lars Laestadius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Chris Reij, World Resources Institute, and Dennis Garrity, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is about to take…
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Abiodun Odusote, University of Lagos Two states in Nigeria – Edo and Ondo – recently announced compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations for adults. Even after a court restrained…
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a $137 million loan to support Botswana’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Sylvaine Castellano, EM Normandie – UGEI; Insaf Khelladi, Pôle Léonard de Vinci – UGEI, and Rossella Sorio, ICN Business School Many people have responded to the…
Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will inject $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights into the global economy. It will allocate them…
Sudan and Chad on Sunday emphasized the need to enhance cooperation between them to confront common challenges of terrorism and extremism and protect the joint border.…
Zanzibar has announced plans to build sub-Saharan Africa’s tallest skyscraper at a cost of $1.3 billion, an amount that exceeds the semi-autonomous archipelago’s annual budget by…
Facebook Inc. in partnership with some of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers, China Mobile Ltd., and MTN Group Ltd. announced it plans to build a wider-than-earlier giant sub-sea…
News Central travels to ancient Oyo town to understand and share the almost forgotten history. https://youtu.be/EoILpr5FYXU
The world’s two largest cocoa suppliers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, on Thursday, agreed to better cooperate on pricing and combating child labour in the industry. Even…