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On February 22, 2024, Chargé d'Affaires Wang Sheng met with Ms. Cissy B. Kabasuuga, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director in Zambia. Ms. Kabasuuga gave a brief introduction of WFP’s implementation of agricultural projects in Zambia. She said that taking into account of the extended dry spell which certain parts of Zambia is suffering from, WFP is keen to cooperate with partners including China to work together to help Zambia overcome the difficulties.  Chargé d'Affaires […]

Oilfield service company Halliburton Senior Vice President of Europe, Eurasia and Sub-Saharan Africa Jean Marc Lopez will attend and participate as a speaker at the forthcoming Invest in African Energy (IAE) (https://apo-opa.co/3OOuX9t) forum in Paris. Lopez will highlight Halliburton's pivotal role in servicing Africa's oil and gas markets, emphasizing the company's initiatives to drive investment and cultivate partnerships aimed at fostering growth in African markets. Organized by Energy Capital&Power, IAE 2024 […]

This week, Dar es Salaam hosted more than 60 experts from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) missions across Africa and officials from the Tanzania Office of the Prime Minister to share best practices in using data to improve development programs, partnerships, and results. Under the theme “Progress Beyond Programs: Enhancing Accountability and Evidence-Based Decision Making,” the five-day program explored approaches that will help USAID and Tanzania monitoring, evaluation, […]

Guinea-based Dynamic Mining SAS has won the Mining Indaba Sustainability Award for its US$90-million Senior Debt facility financed by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), in partnership with the African Finance Corporation (AFC) and BADEA, to support Guinea to increase its bauxite production to 85,000 kilotonnes. With a participation of US$40 million by Afreximbank and US$25 million by AFC and BADEA, the facility was recognised at the 2023 Mining Indaba […]

The official football esports program of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) will be part of EA SPORTS FC™ Pro elite tournament program for the first time this season. In collaboration with Integral (www.Integralsande.com), Africa’s leading innovative sports management and marketing company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the all new eNPFL will give EA SPORTS FC 24 players the chance to represent NPFL clubs in the competition. This year, the action-packed […]

Over 135,000 people have been displaced by ongoing violence since January; Over 600 people have been killed in the last 90 days; Almost 800 people have been injured during continued violence; Almost 200 people have been abducted by non state armed groups.  The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is concerned about the escalating humanitarian crisis in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where 135,000 people have been displaced fleeing the intensification of […]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the adoption this week of a Protocol by the African Union (AU) Assembly of States to eradicate statelessness and advance inclusion for millions of stateless people on the continent. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights Relating to the Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa was adopted last weekend during the […]

Algerian authorities continue to clamp down on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly five years after the Hirak protest movement first began, said Amnesty International, by targeting critical voices of dissent, whether they be protesters, journalists or people expressing their views on social media. After the Hirak protest movement was halted due to Covid-19 in 2020, the Algerian authorities escalated their repression of peaceful dissent. Hundreds of people […]

With US$500,000 from Citi Foundation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up a ground-breaking initiative that seeks to strengthen resilience to climate crises and boost financial inclusion for 17,200 smallholder farmers in Zambia over the next two years. The grant from Citi Foundation is part of its Global Innovation Challenge awarded to World Food Program USA in support of WFP's resilience activities in Zambia. WFP USA is […]