The Africa Fintech Summit will be held Wednesday in Washington D.C., with speakers from top African startups like Flutterwave and a keynote address from Ethiopian investor and summit co-founder Zekarias Amsalu. The event, the latest of the Africa Fintech Summit series launched in 2018, will place partnership with U.S. officials…
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More than 500 leaders have gathered for the Munich Security Conference in Germany this weekend, among them the presidents of Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad to lead discussions on the situation in the Sahel. Yet this year, it’s the global coronavirus outbreak that has taken center stage. The latest numbers…
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The UK government has issued a travel warning for Egypt that coincides with the announcement Saturday that British Airways has canceled all flights to and from Cairo for a week. The airline said the decision was made as a security precaution that would allow time for a thorough assessment of…
Would local agriculture benefit if treated human wastewater from cities like Abidjan, Lagos and Kinshasa was applied to nearby fields? Yes, in some cases, say the authors of a new study published in Nature Sustainability. The research team from the University of Illinois in the United States looked at 56…
Libya’s Khalifa Haftar has returned to Benghazi, where he addressed the nation in a televised broadcast following weeks of speculation about his health and the future of his Libyan National Army (LNA). Haftar assured Libyans of his good health, while admitting that he needed to be seated to speak rather…
A South Sudan unification deal signed earlier this month in Cairo shows promise in ending the nation’s conflict and humanitarian crisis, but it’s already hitting snags on implementation when it comes to rebuilding the SPLM party split by President Salva Kiir loyalists and exiled opposition leader Riek Machar. Nhial Deng…
An emergency meeting of Arab-nation foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Jerusalem has been postponed until Thursday, in order to allow for the widest participation of nations. The League of Arab States said the meeting in Cairo, requested by the Jordanian government, will focus on the crisis at the…
Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive at 2 p.m. local time in Cairo Friday, on a two-day visit to Egypt focused on peace for the nation and solidarity with the oft-wounded Coptic Christian community there. His official reception will be followed immediately by a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah…
The United States plans a new ban on in-flight electronic devices aboard airplanes flying from at least 10 locations in the Middle East and North Africa, according to reports. American officials tell the Associated Press that the ban, which will be announced on Tuesday, covers nonstop flights from Egypt originating in…
It has been almost six years since the New Year’s Eve attack on a Coptic Christian cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, that claimed 21 lives – in a bombing for which no one has ever been held accountable. On Sunday, in a new attack on Cairo’s main cathedral and the heart…
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