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The European Investment Bank and the Rwandan Development Bank have launched an initiative to back new investments by companies affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The new targeted financing scheme will include support companies in sectors most impacted by the trade, economic and health challenges triggered by COVID-19 and unlock investment …

The United States says it’s encouraged by Sunday’s deal reinstating the Sudanese prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok – but wants more progress before restoring aid, BBC News reported. The State Department repeated calls for all civilian leaders detained after last month’s coup to be released. Sudan’s governing generals have already released …

The coronavirus pandemic continues wreaking havoc in South Africa as the cases of contamination are on the rise , health authorities have announced. The country has recorded 1,886 new virus cases since Saturday and 22 deaths from coronavirus. Health Minister Joe Phaahla has urged more people to get vaccinated. “We …

Kenya’s health authorities have urged people to use other alternatives as the country experiences a shortage of condoms, local media report. Restaurants, hospitals and public facilities have not had free condoms in their toilets as has been in the past. The shortage has been attributed to high taxes imposed on …

A helicopter carrying Russian instructors crashed into the Oubangui River in the Central African capital Bangui on Monday, local media have reported. “Two people were seriously injured and the aircraft drowned in the river, right next to the Hotel Oubangui”, Central African journalist Fridolin Ngoulou told Anadolu Agency. According to …

At least nine people are known to have died in inter-ethnic revenge attacks in Jonglei state in eastern South Sudan, local media are reporting. According to governor Denya Jock Chagor, the killings were sparked by an ambush of two young men by attackers allegedly from the neighbouring Greater Pibor administrative …

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has asked men to play a greater role in preventing gender-based violence (GBV) in the country. “If each man gathers two men and the three pledge to never rape a woman, never lay a hand on a woman and hold each other accountable to this …

The Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has called on Afghan television stations to no longer broadcast series showing women, as part of new “religious guidelines” broadcast on Sunday. “Televisions should avoid showing soap operas and series in which women have played,” said a …

Dollar bills fell from the sky “thanks” to an armored van that was on a California highway and whose door opened on Friday, November 19. Faced with this treasure, motorists did not resist the temptation and rushed to the scattered bundles to pick them up. Unfortunately for the drivers, this …

France has called on asked Burkina Faso president to intervene after a French military convoy was blocked for nearly three days by protesters in the city of Kaya. French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said those he called “manipulators” had been stoking anti-French sentiment. There are unconfirmed reports that French …