Aliko Dangote (pictured), Africa's richest man, has praised Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan, saying that the business environment in the country had changed "dramatically" under her leadership. "Things have opened up and I can assure you that wherever I go I will be the champion of Tanzania and will tell people
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Brazil’s Coffee Sector Faces Murky Future As Country Runs Out of Water
Severe drought has farmers worried they will not have enough water to get through the dry season/Courtesy photo Brazil, the world’s biggest exporter of coffee, sugar and orange juice, just had a rainy season that brought hardly any rain. Soils are parched and river levels are low in the nation’s
Read MoreThe World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidance saying that expired Covid-19 vaccines should now be destroyed. This contradicts earlier advice from the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr John Nkengasong. Last month, he urged countries to use out-of-date vaccines saying that they were
Read MoreWHO's Dr Tedros has warned that the second year of the pandemic is likely to be deadlier than the first Wealthier nations should postpone plans to give children and teenagers Covid vaccines and instead donate supplies to low-income countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Tedros Adhanom
Read MoreSeven African countries have so far detected the variant/Getty Images Kenya has confirmed 15 more cases of the Indian Covid-19 variant. Dr Rashid Aman from the health ministry says this now brings the total number of cases from this mutation to 20. "The new cases were confirmed from a genome
Read MoreMuseveni met US Ambassador and Uganda UN Ambassador Adonia Ayebare ahead of January 14th election. US slapped visa restrictions on unnamed Uganda government officials The Government of Uganda has hired an international public relations firm, Mercury International UK Limited, a subsidiary of Mercury Public Affairs, to improve its image on the
Read MoreThe impeached governor is the younger brother of former President Joseph Kabila/ AFP Zoe Kabila, a younger brother of the Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila, has been impeached as governor of the south-eastern province of Tanganyika. He was the only one of the country's 26 governors refusing
Read MoreDominic Ongwen A Ugandan former child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Dominic Ongwen, known as White Ant, was convicted in February of more than 60 crimes including murder, torture, rape
Read MoreThe couple - pictured here in 2018 - have given billions to charity Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying "we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple". "After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on
Read MoreHow Nigerian Teen Got 19 Scholarship Offers Worth Shs18bn From The US & Canada
17-year-old Victory Yinka-Banjo One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars' (UShs17.9bn) worth of scholarship money for
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