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Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, James Cleverly, has said the UK will significantly step up its bid to help African countries fight climate change by supporting the African Development Bank’s Climate Action Window with £200m.…

Seventeen African countries have agreed to work together to curtail money laundering and terrorism funding in the region. The countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea…

Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and leading Pan-African Payments Company Cellulant (Cellulant.io) have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African…

Canada has lifted the travel ban on foreign travellers from Nigeria and nine other African countries. This was disclosed by the country's Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos, at a news conference on Friday. This is coming after it…

ECOWAS leaders have appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as the head of the COVID-19 response, in the region. Presidents of West African countries under the aegis of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government announced the…

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health in Uganda has disclosed that people living in institutional quarantine in the country have started having sex with each other. In a recent interview on Radio One talk show, Permanent…

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio, pictured here at a press conference in May 2018, last week declared rape and sexual violence a national emergency.CREDIT: AFP/GETTY IMAGES Sierra Leone government has recorded its first case of…