Staff Writer

 This morning, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi cast his vote in the 2025 Senate elections, which are taking place in Egypt today and tomorrow. The President voted at his polling station in the Martyr Mustafa Yousry Emeira School in Heliopolis.Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt.    

 The  Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST Africa) (https://Meltwater.org/) today opened applications for the 7th edition of the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC 2025), a pan-African pitch competition that equips high-potential startups with funding and hands-on support. This year’s edition is dedicated exclusively to FinTech startups, spotlighting founders who are reimagining how money is moved, managed, and insured across the continent. Applications run 30th July – 26th September 2025, after which […]

 The second group of members of the 38th round of national service from the Central Region departed today for Sawa to continue their 12th-grade education. The students are from 22 high schools in the region, with female students comprising 56% of the participants. The students expressed their readiness to focus on their education during their stay in Sawa and to fulfill their national responsibilities through exemplary performance and conduct. It […]

 The Eritrean community festival in Germany was colorfully conducted on 2 and 3 August in Frankfurt. Mr. Yohannes Woldu, Chargé d’Affaires at the Eritrean Embassy, noted the significance of the timing of the festival, stating that it attests to the strong unity between the Eritrean people and Government as well as the resilience of the citizens. The festival featured seminars, awards to outstanding students, youth-centered programs, interactions with foreign friends […]

 President John Mahama will on Tuesday, 5 August 2025, host Africa’s political leaders, policymakers, and global health stakeholders at the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit. The landmark initiative will explore bold steps to raise adequate funding to bridge the huge infrastructure gap in the wake of dwindling donor support and policy interventions to subsidise the treatment of deadly chronic diseases, as well as emerging health threats. According to a statement signed […]

 On 5 August 2025, Accra will host a landmark gathering of African Heads of State, policymakers, and global health stakeholders at the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit. Convened by His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, this summit will serve as a call to reimagine global health governance amid a rapidly shifting geopolitical and economic landscape. It aims to foster a new era of health sovereignty rooted […]

  Oyo SAPZ will host up to 40 agro-processing industries, create over 100,000 direct and indirect jobs, and benefit half a million farmers. A great honour to do this on my last official visit to Nigeria as President of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) – Adesina Nigeria has launched a new Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in Oyo State, marking a major milestone in the country’s efforts to boost […]

 On August 1, Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania H.E. Chen Mingjian attended the official launch of the East Africa Commercial and Logistics Center (EACLC) in Dar es Salaam. President H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, Minister of State in President’s Office Planning and Investment Hon. Kitila Mkumbo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Hon. Mahmoud Kombo, Minister for Trade and Industrial Development Zanzibar Hon. Omar Shaaban, Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Hon. Albert Chalamila and over 4,000 people were present at the event. The EACLC is invested by China’s Weihai Huatan Company, with a total investment of over 170 million US dollars. It is expected to create over 50,000 local jobs, generate significant tax revenue and reduce regional trade costs by a large margin. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United Republic of Tanzania.    

 Development of 380 technology centers in local municipalities, villages, cities, and new urban communities has been completed. 156 government services are available through the fixed "Khadamat Masr" centers in Sharm El Sheikh, Mokattam, Aswan, and Alexandria; citizens have completed over 300,000 transactions as of the end of June 2025. The development and delivery of 276 centers within the Mobile Technology Centers project for providing government services to citizens has been […]