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The dam has strained Ethiopia's relations with Egypt and to some extent Sudan Ethiopia has banned flights in its airspace over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) for security reasons, according to the privately-owned Reporter website. "The director-general of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation, Col Wesenyeleh Hunegnaw, told Reporter that following

The ruling means President Yoweri Museveni is free to stand in the next election The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case which challenged the Constitutional Amendment Bill, removing the age limit to contesting the presidency in Uganda. This means President Yoweri Museveni is allowed to stand for

Uganda is the 3rd country with best coffee globally, if 1,229 professional coffee tasters from around the world are to be believed. According to beanpoet, the best coffee country in the world is Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s coffees, as a group, fell higher on the scale than those of any other country.

Operations of South African Airways (SAA), the country's national carrier, have been suspended with immediate effect. "This means SAA will complete repatriation flights that have already been scheduled but will not schedule any further flights," Business Day news site reports. Administrators said they were putting the struggling state-owned carrier under

The illegal outflow of money is related to the export of high-value goods such as gold Africa lost $836bn (£650bn) in illegal movement of money out of the continent in the 15 years to 2015, a new report by the UN agency for trade and development (UNCTAD) estimates. Compared with

A team of 10 Chinese doctors have arrived in Zimbabwe to join the country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic. They will be stationed at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals for the next 12 months, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. The head of the team, Dr Luo Weiqiang, is quoted as saying

US President Donald Trump (pictured) paid just $750 in U.S. income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, reported losing millions of dollars from his golf courses and has hundreds of millions in debt that will come due in the next few years, according to a report in the New York

Proposed new US immigration measures could leave many African students in the country having to reapply for visas in the middle of their degree courses. A plan issued by the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) that is now up for discussion outlines changes to student visas that have previously been

Gold accounted for about half of all Uganda's exports in July - and its biggest market is the UAE/AFP A human rights group has accused Uganda of channeling gold mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo that funds conflict, but the authorities insist that refiners are not processing metal from

Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, A global pandemic has changed everyday life drastically. From one day to the next, millions of people are infected and thousands die, even though life expectancy is longer thanks to development. Hospital systems with high-level services have collapsed and the