AFRICA

PRETORIA, South Africa | Xinhua | Chinese automaker Chery on Friday officially launched its manufacturing plant in Rosslyn, north of South Africa’s administrative capital Pretoria, marking its transition into a local manufacturer and deepening its long-term commitment to the South African market. Addressing the launch ceremony, Chery Chairman Yin Tongyue …

    Nairobi, Kenya | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Pan-African institution AGRA has been awarded the Norman E. Borlaug Medallion by the World Food Prize Foundation, in recognition of the institution’s two decades of contribution to advancing food systems transformation across the continent. Since 2006, AGRA has worked with its partners, …

  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | South Africa is in the news, unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. Imagine Black Africans chasing and lynching fellow Africans, who are seeking economic fortunes, out of their country. For some time, South Africa has been the number one economy in Africa because of …

GENEVA | TASS | The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could cause economic losses for African countries of up to $3.6 billion and threaten more than 300,000 jobs on the continent, according to Damien Mama, UN Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative and Acting Humanitarian Coordinator …

    Kampala, Uganda |  Xinhua | Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has endorsed a proposal to introduce a single East African entry visa for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), which Uganda will co-host with Kenya and Tanzania. Museveni, according to a State House statement issued on Thursday, directed …

Kinshasa, DRC | URN | The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has banned all land transactions in territories under the control of the M23/Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebels, in a move aimed at protecting the property rights of people displaced by the conflict. The ban is contained …

    DUNGA BEACH, Kenya | DAVIS J WEDDI – SciDev.Net |  For years, fish farmers at Dunga Beach, along Kenya’s stretch of Lake Victoria, lived with a dread that never really left them. They could end one day looking out at cages packed with healthy tilapia and begin the next …

  To improve the continent’s competitiveness, the bank calls for faster implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area   Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa has outperformed the global economy despite mounting geopolitical tensions, giving the continent an opportunity to accelerate industrialisation and deepen regional trade if governments …

  American sanctions on M23 networks target Gasabo Gold Refinery and its bosses   NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The growing alliance between the U.S. and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is piling diplomatic pressure on Rwanda as U.S. sanctions mount on Rwanda-backed M23 and its networks. …

    New American sanctions target the commercial networks that turn Congo’s conflict minerals into global business   NEWS ANALYSIS |  RONALD MUSOKE | For years, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s wars have been fought with rifles, rockets and militias. Increasingly, however, Washington believes the conflict is being sustained somewhere else …