World leaders pledged more than $3 billion on Thursday for the global fight against the pandemic, as the United States marked a grim point in its own COVID-19 battle – and without the billions of dollars in emergency funding Biden has sought from Congr…
Continue ReadingNAIROBI— Education ministers at the 21st Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) in Nairobi, Kenya, have issued a joint statement in which they recognised the urgent need to increase investment in education and skills at all ages, with pa…
Continue ReadingABUJA— The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict resulting in the disruption of wheat exports has pushed wheat prices higher by 60 percent in Africa, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwunmi Adesina has said.Adesina, in a meeting with Niger…
Continue ReadingBANJUI— The Central African Republic (CAR) became the first African country to adopt cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender.Globally, the country is the second country to do so after El Salvador.President Faustin Archange Touadera signed a bill into la…
Continue ReadingAfrican Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina says “Africa must prepare for the inevitability of a global food crisis.” He was speaking about Africa’s priorities, as a guest at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center on Friday.Fielding ques…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON— President Samia Suluhu Hassan and US Vice President Kamala Harris met on Friday at the White House in Washington DC, with the two leaders pledging strong ties between the two nations.But, perhaps, high on the agenda was the fact that the Pr…
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