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By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) From an African perspective, one of the most important things to come out of COP15, the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, was the formal recognition of the fact that lower-income countries were not in a position to bear as much of the cost of the energy transition as their higher-income counterparts. That recognition was spelled out in the […]

Meeting on 1 December in Abidjan, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of $252.83 million to Uganda, to fund the construction of the Laropi-Moyo-Afoji and Katuna-Muko-Kamuganguzi road. The financial support consists of two loans: $179.68 million from the African Development Bank and $73.15 million from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional loan window. "The Laropi-Moyo-Afoji/Katuna-Muko-Kamuganguzi road project is intended to improve rural transport […]

The African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Tanzania has been implemented over the last two years with the programmed operations during the period producing results that exceed expectations, according to the mid-term review of the CSP 2021-2025 (https://apo-opa.co/3sFaSLg) published on 9 November. The rate of access to drinking water in the project areas in Arusha, which was 60 percent of the population in 2019, is now 81 […]

Applicants can now submit their visa applications at the new Centre located at Office No 5, 2nd Floor, Hypnose Building, 826 Av. Mama Yemo, Lubumbashi from 29 November 2023. Commenting on the relocation of the Centre, HE Nosicelo D MBELE, Consul General, Consulate-General of the Republic of South Africa said, “On behalf of the Government of the Republic of South Africa, the Consulate-General takes pride in the presence of the […]

Samuel Kofi*, 19, from Takoradi in Ghana’s western region discovered he was HIV positive in November 2022. A situation that left him in shock and in complete denial as he thought death was staring him in the face. “I did not suspect I had HIV when I went to do the test that Wednesday,” Kofi recounts the day he knew his status. “But when it came out positive, even after […]

Tanzania has launched the Integrated Health Sector HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) National Strategic Plan (NSP) to contribute to ending the three epidemics by 2030. Statistics show that Tanzania has about 1.7 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) and over 2 million people infected by viral hepatitis B and C. Currently, there is limited funding to tackle viral hepatitis. Similarly, STIs are on the increase and there […]

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the World Climate Action Summit, held as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which kicked off on December,01, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On her arrival at Expo City Dubai, HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa was greeted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and HH Sheikh […]

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of congratulations to President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic on the occasion of his country's Republic Day. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, also sent […]

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri, who is in the Senegalese capital Dakar, met with the country’s Foreign Minister Madior Fall on Wednesday and held talks with him. The Iranian deputy foreign minister referred to the 9th meeting of the Peace and Security Forum in Africa and said, “The awareness of the African nations and the vigilance of the region's governments will not allow the Western colonialists […]