South Africa aims to attract more clients from China and India. A new Trusted Tour Operator Scheme (TTOS) will be launched in January 2025. Through TTOS, vetted and approved tour operators from these countries will be invited to register with the Department. 93,000 Chinese nationals visited South Africa in 2023. "At the moment, we are really ...
Ethiopian Airlines will fly to/from, the capital of Guinea. For the first time, flights will operate non-stop to/from Addis Ababa and extend to teh West African capital Conakry. Reports hint at least 3 weekly nonstop services with the 787-8 Dreamliner starting November 30. Due to the length of haul, travel time is estimated around 9 hrs 5 min...
Six months after he was elected as Senegal's President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye has announced that snap elections will be held on November 17th, after he dissolved the country's parliament. According to analysts, Faye, whose party does not currently hold a majority in parliament, stands a high chance of securing one. The move has been denounced...
An education bill that would give South Africa's government more control over white minority language schools is a threat to the country's new government of national unity, the second largest political party said Wednesday. The bill seeks to give the government the power to determine language and admission policies in schools. In the current ...
Congolese authorities said that 50,000 doses of smallpox vaccine from the United States arrived on Tuesday, a week after the first batch arrived from the European Union. Adults in Equateur, South Kivu and Sankuru, the three provinces most affected, will be vaccinated first, starting on October 2, Cris Kacita Osako, coordinator of the Congoles...
The robots on duty today at this new restaurant in Nairobi are called Nadia and Claire. They have become a local sensation as they smoothly glide between tables to deliver orders in the two-month-old establishment."At times we get really busy. More so on weekends. So when the house is packed, we have ten waiters on the floor and three robots....
The provisional voter turnout in Algeria's September 7 presidential poll stood at 48.03%. On Saturday morning, many polling stations sat mostly empty. The body overseeing elections eventually extended voting time by an hour and the polls closed at 8 pm local time. Hajj who voted in Algiers is one of the early birds who answered the call. "Thi...
Recent heavy rains and floods across Mali, Nigeria and Niger have forced nearly 950,000 people from their homes. NGO Save the children alerted Friday (Sep. 06) about the risk of disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to education that the situation incurs to the hundreds of thousands of children now displaced. While this is nor...
The first batch of 100,000 doses mpox vaccine officially reached Congo's capital on Thursday, three weeks following the declaration of mpox outbreak in 12 African nations as a global emergency. Western partners, including the European Union and the United States, have committed to providing around 380,000 doses of mpox vaccines. However, this...
The only deepwater port in Cameroon, Kribi Deepwater Port, which was constructed with the help of a Chinese company, has made local people's life much better. The port boasts an annual throughput of 250,000 twenty-foot equivalent units and 1.2 million tonnes of bulk cargo. In 2011, work began on Phase I of the Kribi Deepwater Port Project. Se...
African nations are losing up to 5% of their GDP every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, a new report said Monday after one of the continent's hottest years on record. The World Meteorological Organization said many African nations are spending up to 9% of their budgets for climate adaptation p...
African heads of state have begun arriving in the Chinese capital, Beijing, ahead of the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit which gets underway on Wednesday. This ninth gathering is expected to provide a framework for navigating China's evolving strategic partnership with the continent in the post-Covid era. It is taking place at...
In a classroom at Senegal's House of Urban Culture, tucked away in the narrow streets of Dakar's Ouakam neighborhood, Aminata Thiam clapped her hands in time with a beat she created on her computer. She is teaching a beatmaking class to five young women, each of them working intently on beats of their own on the computers in front of them. Th...
Despite strained relations following last year's coup in Niger, Nigeria and Niger have signed a new security cooperation agreement. Announced by the Nigerian army on Thursday, the accord aims to bolster regional stability and security. "Both parties reaffirmed their commitment to resuming and strengthening collaboration for regional stability...
Nigeria hired German coach Bruno Labbadia on Tuesday to lead the men's national soccer team in a bid to get its flagging World Cup qualifying campaign back on track. "The appointment is with immediate effect," said Mohammed Sanusi, the general secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation. The 58-year-old Labbadia has been out of work since Ap...
In Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, people are finding their reset button in a "rage room" where they pay to smash electronics and furniture with a sledgehammer as a break from the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. The Shadow Rage Room, apparently the first of its kind in Nigeria, offers "a safe space" for people to let out pent-up e...
The campaign for the general elections set for October 9 began on Saturday, August 24, in Mozambique. The ruling party since independence in 1975, Frelimo, will face the main opposition party, Renamo, which originated from a former anti-communist rebellion. However, an independent candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, might create a surprise. The iss...
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez travelled to the Canary Islands on Friday to meet with regional President Fernando Clavijo as the archipelago continues to face a high number of migrant arrivals and struggles to care for thousands of unaccompanied minors. Sánchez's minister for territorial policy and democratic memory Ángel Victor Torres,...
On Thursday (Aug. 22), trucks carrying vital food supplies crossed the Adre border between Chad and Sudan for the first time since February. Their load includes sorghum, oil and rice, according to the UN, and is destined to over 12,000 people who are at risk of famine in the Kereneik area of West Darfur. The delivery comes as war-torn Sudan g...
Africa's top public health agency says the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other countries on the continent could start vaccinating against mpox within days. The DRC is the epicentre of a more deadly strain of the virus that emerged last year and has subsequently spread to some 12 other African states, with confirmed cases in at least ...
