East African Legislative Assembly adopts accounts committee report on previous years’ audits
According to the audited report, the Community operated with a budget of USD 105 million, but actual expenditure reached only USD 72.7 million, resulting in a budget absorption rate of 69 percent.
Africa launches single continent’s currency Marketplace saving USD 5 Billion in trade bottleneck
The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System’s African Currency Marketplace (PACM is a next-generation Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) out to solve the continent’s longstanding challenge of currency inconvertibility.
Anthrax kills 60 hippos, 27 buffaloes and affects 27 people in DR Congo
It all started in mid-May, when 57-year-old man called Pierre was admitted to a health center in the Lubero area after suffering from severe itching on his right hand, followed by pruritus and a swelling of his forearm.
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Rwanda’s Airplanes blocked from using DR Congo airspace
Elsewhere in Tanzania, DR Congo has filed a case against Rwanda, at the African Court based in Arusha, accusing the latter of fuelling the conflict in ​the former​'s Eastern Province of Goma and surrounding environs.
President Paul Kagame retraces Felix Tshisekedi’s footsteps in Qatar
President Kagame’s trip to Doha comes less than four weeks after his nemesis, that is the DR Congo President, Felix Tshisekedi visited Qatar, for what was described to be a brief working stay in Doha.
International Criminal Court now calls for witnesses in ongoing DR Congo Conflict
The investigations also bear on ‘the serious escalation of violence,’ in the eastern region of DR Congo particularly in Goma, the city which was recently annexed by a coalition of rebel forces.
Former DR Congo President Joseph Kabila wants Felix Tshisekedi to Resign
The former republican President Joseph Kabila through his party statement was quoted as insisting that Felix Tshisekedi must step down from power and allow the people of DR Congo to form their own preferred lineup of leadership.
DR Congo drags Rwanda to the African Court in Arusha
As regards reparations, the ​Democratic Republic of Congo requests the Court to order the Respondent State to withdraw its troops from the Applicant State’s territory and immediately halt all forms of support for M23 coalition.
Over USD 50 Million needed for emergency Health Response in DR Congo
Dire health and humanitarian crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo prompts escalation of efforts by the World Health Organization and partners, plus more funds
Lagos Free Zone gets investment boost from International Finance Corporation
Owned by Singapore based Tolaram, a diversified multinational group with operations across Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Lagos Free Zone is strategically integrated with the Lekki Deep Sea Port.
Sam Nujoma: The Namibian President with a Tanzanian Passport
Sam Nujoma who was also going under the alias of Samwel Mwakangale, acting as a teacher from Dodoma in Tanzania, was an activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president.
EAC rejects Military intervention in solving DR Congo conflict. Tshisekedi snubs Tanzania’s Summit
While the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame who is being accused by the West for aiding the rebels’ groups fighting in the DR Congo, managed to attend the meeting in Dar-es-salaam, the Congolese President, Felix Tshisekedi did not turn up.
UN expert lauds African Court ruling against Tanzania’s failure to protect persons with albinism
Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond supports the decision by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights holding the Tanzania liable for failures to protect persons with albinism.