Month: March 2024

A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Jose Gijon, Mission Chief for Guinea Bissau, held videoconferences and meetings in Bissau during February 28– March 11, 2024, to discuss macroeconomic policies in the context of the Fourth and Fifth Reviews of the ECF arrangement [[1]]. The initial arrangement was approved by the IMF Executive Board on January 30, 2023 , for a total amount of SDR 28.4 million (about US$ […]

Eskom CFO Calib Cassim will speak at the upcoming Invest in Africa Energy (IAE) forum in Paris, affirming the South African utility’s commitment to upgrading and expanding its national energy infrastructure with the participation of private investors and developers. Uniting African and global investors for two days of networking and dealmaking, IAE 2024 will showcase Africa’s leading energy prospects. Eskom – South Africa’s main energy supplier – is seeking private […]

Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. The new wave of displacements is taking place against the backdrop of a protracted cholera outbreak, heightening the risk of infectious diseases for displaced families and host communities, who share crowded accommodations with poor sanitation. "It is heartbreaking to see so many […]

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is today warning that life-saving programmes in Chad will grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding. The stark warning comes as thousands of Sudanese refugees continue to stream across the border from Darfur, and as the rainy season looms, threatening to cut off road access for humanitarian deliveries to the camps in the east of the country – […]

The High-Level Panel for Sudan (HLP-Sudan) has concluded its first shuttle diplomacy mission. The HLP-Sudan is chaired by H.E. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, AU High Representative for Silencing the Guns, and includes Dr Specioza Wandira-Kazibwe, former Vice President of Uganda, and Ambassador Francisco Madeira, former AU Special Representative of the Chairperson to Somalia. On its first stop in Port Sudan, the HLP-Sudan engaged with senior officials of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, […]