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Nairobi — Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) has secured more than USD 4.3 billion in investment commitments to support the expansion of its smart-city model across Africa, as the company engages investors and government officials on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The commitments were finalised during…
Nigeria has demanded at least two permanent seats for Africa on the UN Security Council, with veto powers for as long as the privilege exists. Vice-President Kashim Shettima made the demand while delivering President Bola Tinubu’s national statement at the 81st UN General Assembly in New York. He also demanded five non-permanent seats for Africa,…
Mr Shettima said the Council’s present configuration no longer reflected contemporary geopolitical realities and weakened the legitimacy of global decision-making. Nigeria has demanded at least two permanent seats for Africa on the UN Security Council, with veto powers for as long as the privilege exists. Vice President Kashim Shettima made the demand while delivering President…
Being admitted to hospital is supposed to bring relief. But for thousands of patients across Africa, hospital care comes with another burden: severe pain. A landmark study led by the University of Cape Town (UCT) found that two-thirds of adults admitted to hospitals across Africa experienced pain, while one in seven suffered severe pain. The…
Ethiopia and Djibouti have described Dangote Group’s $660 million Damarjog-Dewele Oil Terminal and Pipeline Project as a strategic investment expected to strengthen energy security, improve regional trade and deepen economic integration in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh have commended Dangote Group‘s $660 million Damarjog-Dewele Oil…
For African governments, the significance of China’s humanoid-robotics programme is not that robots may one day appear on African battlefields. It is a diagnostic case of how a dual-use technology can move from commercial deployment to military relevance faster than the institutions responsible for assessing and governing it can adapt. Africa’s stake is therefore not…
Kenyan President William Ruto told the General Assembly on Wednesday that the sovereign equality the UN proclaims is contradicted by its own structures, urging Member States to reform the Security Council and an international financial system “built for another age”. Addressing the General Debate, Mr. Ruto said Kenya spoke “not from despair in this institution,…
Bandung, Indonesia — The chairs are still there. More than seven decades after Asian and African leaders gathered in Bandung to challenge colonialism and demand a greater voice for newly independent nations, visitors can still sit where delegates sat in 1955. The flags remain. So do photographs, furniture and some of the equipment used by…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has once again put an uncomfortable truth before the world: Africa remains the only continent without permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council. The imbalance is difficult to miss. The Council still revolves around five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — a…
The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Bishop Emanuel Kofi Fianu, has warned that the growing commercialisation of politics, misuse of technology and restrictions on civic participation could undermine democratic gains in Africa. He said electoral integrity and democratic stability across the continent were under increasing pressure from political money, disinformation and shrinking civic…
