AFRICA NEWS

By Rungano Dzikira

SADC health ministers have resolved to suspend face-to-face regional meetings until such a time when COVID-19 has been contained, at the emergence meeting held in Tanzania on the 9^th of March.

Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) says that the number of females in Egypt reached 47.5 million in January 2019. 

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that a slew of peaceful elections and truces in Africa were signs of a “wind of hope” on the continent.

The Republic of Rwanda and African Union Commission’s Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture will on Sunday February 10, 2019 host a high level side event on the Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS) at the margins of the February 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union.

Rwanda has confirmed that President Paul Kagame will attend the East African Community Heads of State Summit on Friday, erasing doubts that he would skip and opt to mark Heroes Day celebrations in his country.

An Ethiopian ex-minister was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of “mismanagement of public funds” while he was head of a regional public investment fund, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting said.

A group of soldiers sought to take power in Gabon on Monday while the country's ailing president was abroad, but the government declared the bid had failed and the rebels had been arrested.

Niger’s army says it has killed nearly 290 militants from the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group during an offensive near the country’s southeast border with neighboring Nigeria.

The US State Department has barred former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family from entry into the United States.

An Egyptian actress who wore a sexy dress faces five years in jail if convicted of public obscenity when she goes on trial in January.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that Kenya will increase its national budget allocation to education to reach 30 percent, making it among the highest in Africa.

African Ministers and delegates at the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) have concluded that in order to accelerate solutions to Africa’s infrastructure gaps, they must be taken seriously if Africa is to realise the aspirations of its people as enshrined in the continent’s blueprint for development, Agenda 2063 and the global agenda for sustainable development.