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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:56
The embattled Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has cried out over the picketing of its party secretariats by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), describing it as an abuse of power that must be stopped immediately.  Africa Today News, New York recalls that the NLC leadership had earlier...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:47
In a very strategic move to further deepen its root in Africa, Nigerian leading financial institution, Access Holdings has announced plans to acquire the National Bank of Kenya. According to a corporate disclosure on the Nigerian Stock Exchange website, Access Bank Plc, the leading subsidiary of...
Breaking News from Africa
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:23
With only three of the ten undersea cables that connect South Africa to the world still in operation, it is quite remarkable that the region remains as well connected as […]
Stay Smart About Africa
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:21
The Nigerian Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, is one of the confirmed dignitaries billed to speak at the Nigeria Development and Finance Forum (NDFF) […]
Stay Smart About Africa
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:00
FWilliam Jackson, M.Ed. Metaverse Education Program Director of the World Metaverse Council and Director Technology Education of One Africa Forum The ability of Africans to share their authentic voices has […]
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 11:51
What’s Unheard? The Yemen Listening Project 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 11:37

For more than a year, AI has been a subject of public discussion and debate, as the world begins to grapple with its potential to impact almost every aspect of our lives. The questions being asked vary from sector to sector and region to region. Across Africa, the types of questions I hear most...

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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 11:35
The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and Mozambique reinforced their partnership during a visit by Mr. Solomon Quaynor, the Bank’s Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization. This visit, held […]
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 09:51

Nigeria’s lead female presidential Obiageli Ezekwesili has withdrawn from the race with just 22 days left to the much hyped polls.

In a statement released Thursday (24 January) she said she was stepping aside from “to help build a coalition to defeat” the two main contenders –...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 19:25

Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. For decades he was not only a household name in Africa, but across the globe and appealed to a diverse audiences. However,  as we reported in the  archive piece below when Ish Mafundikwa caught up with him back in 2012, there was much much more to the affable  Tuku,...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 16:08

Perhaps for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the annual gathering of the world’s richest nations (and a fair sprinkling of those on the other side of the divide) for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos, Switzerland, will show more fissures than the proverbial Swiss...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 11:50

The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister could well prove to be a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Suddenly, everything is possible. By Mimi Alemayehou

Certain years in the life of a nation can be so pivotal that they represent a rebirth. Think of 1865,...

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Monday, January 21, 2019 - 17:15

Job Title Field: Chief of Section | Innovative Finance & Capital Markets Section (P5)

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Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is...

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