World Bank announces $57 billion in financing for Africa
The World Bank has announced $57 billion in financing for sub-Saharan Africa over the next three fiscal years.
Of that total, $45 billion will come from the International Development Association, the World Bank fund that provides grants and interest-free loans for the world's poorest countries.
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Turkey’s president Erdogan defends his massive post-coup crackdown
Today, the Minister of National Defence announced 820 personnel were dishonorably discharged from the Army and Navy. Of those, 648 were already under arrest.
Turkey’s president has defended the sweeping crackdown that has seen the detention of thousands of judges and prosecutors following July’s failed...
US Congress Urges Pentagon to Deepen Security Partnership with Somaliland
By: African Report
Even as the White House denied Somaliland an invitation to last month’s US-Africa Leaders Summit, Congress was handing the de facto state a key diplomatic win in its annual Defence bill.
The dueling...
Seven Africans named in Time 100 influential list
By:BBC Africa
Time magazine has listed seven Africans among its list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2021, including figures from the world of academia, science, activism and economics.
The Nigerian head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, featured on the list,...
Campaigners fear famine in drought-hit Somalia
Somalia, a country hit by severe levels of drought, is facing huge risks of famine, an international aid group warns.
Save the Children said Thursday that life-threatening child malnutrition levels were alarming in Somalia, adding that the situation was “very critical” in two of six...
Munich attack: Suspect ‘obsessed’ with mass shootings
Horndiplomat-Teen gunman was "deranged" and "obsessed" with mass shootings, according to Munich police chief.
The 18-year-old suspect who opened fire at a crowded Munich shopping centre and fast-food restaurant, shooting nine people dead and wounding 16 others before killing himself, was obsessed with mass shootings,...
Iranian man who didn’t wash for half a century dies at 94
By: BBC
A hermit dubbed by media as "the world's dirtiest man" has died at the age of 94, just months after having his first wash in decades.
Amou Haji had refused to use soap and water for more than half a century, fearing it would...
U.S. woman shocked refuge-seeking friend walked to Canada
Saciido Shaie says something seemed to be weighing on her friend Mohamed Badal in the days before he vanished.
Badal, a Somali man who spent months trekking four continents before landing in the United States, had been preparing to appeal a rejected asylum application when...
What is the solution for failed state in S. Sudan
By Matai M. Muon
In the international legal prism, precisely under the declaratory theory, a state is an independent, political, and socio-economic entity, with a definite boundary, a permanent population, and a government. The most striking attribute as per the international law, however, is the...
Somalia’s Pirates Are Back in Business
BY JASON PATINKIN @JasonPatinkin
NAIROBI — After being all but stamped out by international naval forces following its late-2000s heyday, piracy has made a sudden return to the Horn of Africa. In the past month, there have been six suspected piracy incidents near Somalia, five of...
