Category: Africa News

Kenya’s Safaricom will start a joint venture worth $13 million with South Africa’s Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights of M-Pesa from Britain’s … source

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is the first African leader to publicly congratulate incoming Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Mohammed. Kagame said he had … source

Finding a single candidate to run against President Paul Biya in the October 7 presidential elections is a puzzle Cameroon’s opposition is working hard to solve. source

A SpaceX Dragon resupply cargo craft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Monday. It follows a two-day journey that began at Kennedy … source

Nigeria’s ruling party took a close lead in elections for powerful state governors on Tuesday, although the final results hang in the balance as six contests were … source

It is a busy day at the Notto farmers’ market, about 70 kilometers away from Senegal’s capital, Dakar. The fruits and vegetables sold here are mainly at wholesale … source

President of the African Development Bank AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina on Friday at the closing ceremony of the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Malabo, Equatorial … source

Out with the old, in with the new. Kenya has dropped the images of presidents from new cash coins. This is in line with the country’s 2010 constitutional … source

A soldiers’ mutiny in Nigeria. Troops from the special forces fired shots into the air on Sunday evening at the Maiduguri international airport, moments before … source

The seventh Tana high-level forum on Peace and Security in Africa came to a close on Sunday, April 22 in Ethiopia’s northern city of Bahir Dar. … READ MORE ……