The best of African football was in Marrakech, Morocco, Monday (Dec. 11) for the CAF awards. Nigeria's Victor Osimhen won the best African male player of the year award. His exceptional season saw him win the Italian Serie A with Napoli. Osimhen edged Egypt's Mohamed Salah and Morocco's Achraf Hakimi. The last time a Nigerian shone on the continent...

The World Bank has issued a deadline for Tanzania to address the complaints of civil rights abuses concerning the $150 million natural resources the global lender is funding. Based on a motion filed by two unnamed Tanzanian citizens, the World Bank's board on November 15th authorized the investigation into the Resilient Natural Resource Management ...

Google has released its 2023 'Year in Search' for Nigeria showing top trending searches by Nigerians in 2023. Google Year in Search is an annual analysis by Google that reveals a compilation of the most popular search queries and topics throughout the year. It typically includes categories such as top searches, trending searches, people, news, movi...

Egypt's space agency chief has hailed cooperation with China in the field of space technologies, following the launch on Monday of a remote-sensing satellite into orbit from a launch centre in northwest China. In an interview with the China Global Television Network (CGTN), Sherif Sedky, CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), said that China has ...

The prestigious Etoile d'Or at the Marrakech International Film Festival found its home in a Moroccan film for the first time. Asmae El Moudir, the 32-year-old director, secured the coveted award for her documentary, "Kadib Abyad" (The Mother of All Lies), a unique exploration of her family's haunted past and the broader history of Morocco during t...

Didier Drogba, one of the biggest names in world football over the last two decades, and his partner Gabrielle LeMaire will become new team owners in the UIM E1 World Championship. The Ivory Coast striker, who won four Premier League titles, four FA Cups, and the UEFA Champions League with Chelsea between 2004 and 2015, and who also played for Mars...

Of nearly 25 million people in need, the United Nations has only been able to reach a fraction, according to the head of the UN's humanitarian response in war-torn Sudan. But assistance to even those four million could soon stop, Clementine Nkweta-Salami told AFP in an interview, if the chronic lack of funding continues. The UN's humanitarian Coord...

Despite Kenya's inflation, people in the country are using more cars now than they have in recent years, as indicated by the increase in the number of registered vehicles in the first nine months of 2023. Despite soaring vehicle and fuel prices, Kenya sees a remarkable 25% increase in registered automobiles.Kenyan car acquisitions surge, defying gl...

Broadcasting giant, Multichoice has decided to increase the price of its packages in Nigeria just days after the company experienced a substantial financial loss. The company recently lost $72m as seen in its Q3 report for 2023. Shortly after, MultiChoice's offerings shot up as high as 20%. Multichoice experiences a $72M Q3 loss.The company increas...

Tanzania has inked a deal for a land-based carbon credit project, which currently stands as one of the largest carbon deals in East Africa. Tanzania has secured one of East Africa's largest carbon credit projects.The deal is between Tanzania's National Park Agency (Tanapa) and Carbon Tanzania.Mohammed Dewji will contribute additional funding to the...

The Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Dele Alake, and the United States, through Assistant Secretary for Energy and Natural Resources Geoffrey Pratt, have initiated discussions on financing mining projects in Nigeria.  Both officials have agreed to establish a joint team to explore fu...

Burna Boy has emerged as the most streamed African artist in Sub Saharan-Africa (SSA) on Spotify for the second year in a row, according to Spotify Wrapped 2023, the annual data-led review of how people listened to music and podcasts on the platform. Burna Boy remains the most streamed African artist in Sub-Saharan Africa on Spotify for the second ...

Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe's richest man and the founder of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited, Strive Masiyiwa has taken a commendable step in advancing education for orphaned and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. Masiyiwa has granted an impressive 11,100 scholarships, with 5,300 distributed in the first half of this year alone.Higherlife Foundation, ...

The Labor ministry of Malawi disclosed on Monday that several of the country's men have left for Israel, despite Israel's ongoing conflict with Hamas, to work on desolate farms left empty because of the war. Israel and Hamas have been in a bloody conflict since October, and economic sectors in the region are beginning to bear the brunt. Malawians d...

Senegal's navy announced on Tuesday that the military has intercepted over three tonnes of cocaine from a ship anchored off the coast, marking one of the country's biggest drug hauls.  The cocaine was seized from a ship intercepted 150km off the Senegalese capital.The confiscated cargo contained 2.975 tonnes of pure cocaine.Traffickers frequen...

Nigeria's cabinet has approved a $1 billion concessionary loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to bolster budget financing in the country.  The AfDB loan will fetch an interest rate of 4.2% for 25 years with eight-year moratorium.Nigeria's cabinet also approved a cap of 2 trillion naira for refinancing expensive government debt, aimin...

Africa's healthcare systems are grappling with a severe shortage of African doctors due to the exodus of medical professionals leaving the continent in search for better career prospects and higher salaries in high-income countries of the Global North. Over 55,000 African doctors have left the continent to Global North countries, according to a rec...

Kampala has a price-to-income ratio of 79.4, topping global charts.This is according to Numbeo's latest report.Despite this Uganda's economy has been performing very well. As the bustling heart of Uganda, Kampala stands as a vibrant city with a growing economy and a rich cultural tapestry. However, amidst its prosperity, there exists a unique econo...

South African business confidence fell in the fourth quarter with new-vehicle dealers' confidence reaching its lowest level since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.The business confidence index fell to 31 points in the fourth quarter, from 33 points in the previous three months.Increased borrowing costs in Africa's third-largest economy have re...

The South African government has denied claims suggesting the implementation of new regulations aimed at limiting farm-export quotas based on race.Two media houses had reported that farms labelled as "too White" will face restrictions on exporting their produce to the UK and the European Union.The government says the reports misrepresented the gove...