President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday rang the bell to kick off the trading of Kenya’s first green bond at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Speaking during the launch, the President urged UK investors to use Kenya as a gateway to investing into Africa and a bridge to the emerging market
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A tweeter in Sudan, who has been leading a campaign to save five starving lions being kept in cages in Khartoum's Al-Qureshi Park, says one of the animals has been moved to a clinic because of its serious condition. He tweeted: "The extremely sick female was loaded this morning in
Read MoreThe South African government said it’s working on solutions for the national airline after failing to pay 2 billion rand ($138 million) in funding by a Sunday deadline. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government said it continues to work with South African Airways’ lenders and business-rescue practitioners, “with the primary goal of
Read MoreBillionaires Double, Richer Than 60 Percent Of World’s Population: Oxfam
The world's billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 percent of the global population, the charity Oxfam said Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in “12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day,”
Read MoreChina, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use plastics across the country, BBC reports. The restaurant industry will also be banned from using single-use straws by the end of 2020. Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end
Read MoreUgandan academic, writer and feminist activist Stella Nyanzi has won the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2020. Ms Nyanzi is a controversial academic, who campaigns on a variety of issues, from sanitary pads for schoolgirls to gay rights. In a conservative society, where homosexual acts are outlawed,
Read MoreThe secretive world of naval underwater surveys rarely breaks the surface. Now recent events are briefly shining a light into the darkness. In the Adriatic a Croatian fishing vessel caught one of the U.S. Navy’s undersea sensor systems last week. That mysterious object has largely been explained. Meanwhile, China has
Read MoreThe billionaire daughter of Angola's ex-president, Isabel dos Santos (pictured), has said she would consider running for president in the next election in 2022. That's despite an asset freeze and accusations of diverting more than a billion dollars of state money, which she denies. In an interview with the Portuguese
Read MoreEgypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have reached an initial agreement on the filling and operation of a mega dam being built on the River Nile. A joint statement by the three countries, along with the US and the World Bank says negotiators had agreed to fill the reservoir of the Grand
Read MoreSudan's army has quelled a rebellion by former elite troops loyal to ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. Shooting broke out on Tuesday in the capital Khartoum and the city's airport was briefly closed amid the clashes. The violence was sparked by a row over severance pay for officers in a much-feared
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