Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday named a scholar who served as a Vatican diplomat as the US envoy to Africa's Great Lakes region, filling a position aimed at encouraging stability in the conflict-ridden area. J. Peter Pham, now a vice president at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, will focus on strengthening democratic inst ...

Thousands of students protested Friday in Morocco for the third consecutive day against a government decision to keep its clocks at summer time year round, local media reported. Pupils who now have to get up before sunrise to get to school denounced a shameful decision and a farce , demonstrating in several cities, according to newspapers and ...

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Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 November 2018 -. The first of its kind transaction-based investment Forum in Africa, on Friday unveiled the conclusions of the boardroom sessions at the heart of the Forum, which brought together over 1,000 participants from government, the private sector, development finance institutions, commercial banks, and inst ...

Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 November 2018 ndash;The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) has acquired an equity stake in the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, formerly known as PTA. BADEA CEO nb ...

Johannesburg Zoo is under mounting pressure to send a lonely elephant to an animal sanctuary after her male companion died last month. Protestors dressed in elephant costumes have been demonstrated at the zoo entrance, while online petitions have garnered over 100,000 signatories, clamouring for 39-year-old Lammie to start a new life in the comp ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday accused France of ignoring UN resolutions and illegitimately holding the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte. Situated between Madagascar and Mozambique, Mayotte is the only island in the Comoros archipelago which did not split from France after an independence referendum in 1974. Even though M ...

Tunisian police deployed more than 6,000 officers as well as drones and canine units for a hotly anticipated CAF Champions League final on Friday after a controversial first leg. Between 50,000 and 55,000 fans are expected to pack Rades stadium in a southern suburb of the capital for the battle between Tunisia's Esperance and Al Ahly of Egypt. ...

EU election observers said on Friday that Madagascar's presidential election this week had very minor irregularities after candidate Hery Rajaonarimampianina alleged the vote was mired by fraud. The irregularities were very minor and won't have any impact on the election's outcome, said the head of the European Union's monitoring mission Cri ...

Johannesburg, South Africa, 08 November, 2018 - Lusophone countries have identified a pipeline of more than US$5 billion in private sector and private-public partnership (PPP) projects to accelerate growth in their economies. The projects form part of a development finance compact between the Bank, the government of Portugal, and the six ...

Soaring birth rates in developing nations are fuelling a global baby boom while women in dozens of richer countries aren't producing enough children to maintain population levels there, according to figures released Friday. A global overview of birth, death and disease rates evaluating thousands of datasets on a country-by-country basis also fou ...

Partial results in Madagascar's presidential race showed former presidents Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana neck and neck as election officials counted ballot papers on Thursday. Rajoelina won 43.5 percent of votes cast in Wednesday's vote, while Ravalomanana secured 42.44 percent, according to results from 147 polling stations out of 24,85 ...