AfEEC provides a crucial dashboard to assess Member States’ progress toward the continental benchmark, a 50% enhancement in energy productivity by 2050, escalating to 70% by 2063. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Continental energy leaders are set to converge at the African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters for the inaugural Africa Energy Efficiency Conference (AfEEC), a strategic…
“We were held incommunicado, tortured and starved at Kasenyi Military Barracks in Entebbe for 39 days,” says Njagi and Oyoo. MBALE, Uganda, 9th November -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed that the country’s security authorities had arrested two Kenyan human rights activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo. The two, he said, are ‘experts in riots’…
JOHANNESBURG, November 2025 — A lack of access to affordable, quality childcare cost the economies of Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria billions in lost income in 2022, as millions of employable mothers were unable to participate in the workforce. This is according to research from Economist Impact’s Childcare Dividend Initiative (CDI), which reveals that investing…
DODOMA, Tanzania, November 1st -President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been announced as the winner of the Tanzanian presidential election after bagging 97.66 percent of the total votes cast (32,678,884) against her 16 challengers. Making the announcement, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) led by Chairman and Court of Appeal Judge Jacobs Mwambegele said that Chama…
He rose to power in 1982 and is set to serve an eighth consecutive term of seven years after receiving 55 percent of the total presidential votes cast. YAOUNDE, Cameroon, October 29th –President Paul Biya of Cameroon has been declared the winner of the presidential polls amidst protests across the central African nation. Biya, 92…
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, October 29th –President Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner in the Ivory Coast’s presidential elections. The country’s Independent Electoral Commission announced on Monday that the 83-year-old sitting head of state had won a fourth term with 89.77 percent of the ballots cast. Nearly nine million Ivorians were eligible to vote on…
Prof Mutharika will join a list of octogenarian leaders who are still in power KISUMU, Kenya, September 25th – The election of Prof Arthur Peter Mutharika as the 7th President of Malawi ominously represents a growing list of leaders in Africa who are not yet ready to relinquish power to the younger generation. Making a…
“I have done this because I accept the results of the presidential election that the Malawi Electoral Commission has already validated and released,” President Chakwera declared. LILONGWE, Malawi, Wednesday, September, 24th – In a dignified and definitive address to the nation, President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has formally conceded defeat in the presidential election, congratulating his…
KISUMU, Kenya, September 20th –The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in partnership with the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR), will convene the 2025 Afreximbank Compliance Forum (ACF2025) in Kigali from 12–14 November 2025. Themed “Better Compliance – Better Trade: Embracing AI to Promote and Secure Trade Through a Modern Compliance Framework, the forum seeks to leverage…
Solomon Waliaula, Maasai Mara University Nollywood, Nigeria’s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century. These low-budget, high-output films and TV series immediately struck a chord with ordinary people in lower income brackets. Although new Nollywood productions can be slick, high…