Ethiopia is hailing the country’s invitation to join the Brics club of nations as a major diplomatic victory. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who was attending the Brics summit in South…
Kenya: Regulator fines steel firms for price fixing
Kenya’s competition regulator has fined nine steel companies a record amount for price fixing. The fines comes to a total of 338m Kenyan shillings ($2.3m, £1.8m) – with Corrugated Steel…
Russia: Wagner boss Prigozhin was just back from Africa
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken for the first time about the plane crash in which it is said that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin died. He said news of his…
Nigeria: Sharp unemployment rate drop recorded
Three in four Nigerians of working age were employed by the end of March, according to data released by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This contrasts sharply with…
Nigeria: Tinubu orders urgent resolution of Nigeria-UAE row
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has called for an immediate resolution to disagreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that affected flights and issuing of visas. The UAE last year stopped…
France: Airport to be renamed after Queen Elizabeth II in tribute
An airport in France will be renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II after receiving permission from the King, officials in the town have said. Le Touquet, in northern France,…
Haiti: Haitians flee homes in Port-au-Prince as gang violence surges
Thousands of Haitians have fled their homes in Port-au-Prince amid soaring gang violence that has killed more than 2,400 people so far this year. The UN said 5,000 fled the…
Dominican Republic: Blast kills dozens, including a baby
More than two dozen people, including a four-month-old baby, have died in an explosion which rocked the small town of San Cristóbal, in the Dominican Republic, on Monday. The death…
South Africa: Brazilian President Lula’s love for Africa
“Brazil is back on the continent it should never have left. Africa gathers many opportunities and a huge potential for growth.” These remarks were made by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio…
USA: FTX founder Bankman-Fried living on bread and water
Sam Bankman-Fried is struggling to prepare for his fraud trial due to a lack of adequate food in prison, the lawyer for the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX says.…