The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation today announced the 25 teams receiving finalist prizes for the Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech (agricultural technology), which will share $2 million award.
African Development Bank (AfDB) joins the $800 million program will help spur commercial and local currency investments to scale up the activities of decentralized renewable energy companies in Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya,…
United States Ambassador to Nigeria Mary Beth Leonard and Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed signed a bilateral cultural property agreement on January 20, 2022, in a ceremony in Abuja attended…
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – On Friday December 17, United Nations Human Rights Council held a special session on Ethiopia. The special session was called by the European Union (EU), which about…
With the objective of impacting the lives of millions of people in Africa’s most populous country, the African Development Bank’s Board of Directors on Monday approved a $210 million loan to the…
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – Most of the latest actions and decisions of the United States and its Western allies in some African countries, mainly in the Horn of Africa, shows how…
Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest pan African airline, has resumed weekly passenger services to Enugu, Nigeria from 09 October 2021. The flights are operated on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Several African countries leaders including presidents of Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Prime Minister of Congo, and Foreign Affairs Minister of Algeria, among others gathered in Addis Ababa to…
Ethiopia’s Government spending of $3.8 million over the next 10 years could save tens of thousands of lives, reduce healthcare costs, and raise the country’s productivity, stemming losses of $520 million a…
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work that has improved food security across 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia urges African leaders mainly Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, and Nigeria to cooperate pooling together their resources and knowledge to get out of poverty.
Nigeria’s Federal and State governments have expressed overwhelming support for an initiative to create Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ).
In the month of August 2021, air passenger traffic reached 46.8% compared to same month in 2019 while capacity was at 54.6%, according to African Airlines Association (AFRAA).
The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and NKC African Economics (an Oxford Economics company) launched today a joint report on “Best Practices in Job Creation, lessons from Africa.”