APA
The Church of England has barred the daughter of South Africa’s late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu from officiating at her godfather’s funeral because of her involvement in a same-sex relationship, APA learnt here on Friday.
South Africa is ranked among the top 20 countries with highest crime rates in the world, according to the latest Global Organised Crime Index (GOCI) made available to APA on Friday.
Diamond-dependent Botswana is struggling to attract investors to diversify its economy away from the mineral, President Mokgweetsi Masisi has revealed.
Guinea’s ruling junta has mocked ‘clownish comments’ by the current chair of the West African regional bloc, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau criticising the duration of the transition to civilian rule.
The launch by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of a $1 million ‘One Tree Planted programme to plant five million trees by 2024 to restore degraded areas in the Black Volta landscape is one of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Friday.
The value of the SANUSI Currency Index shows a 0.68% depreciation of West African currencies against the US Dollar over the week (September 16-23, 2022).
An international conference on renewable energy will take place in Italy from 8 to 11 November, 2022, during which discourses will take place on fostering technology solutions to help roll back climate change.
The warning by the World Bank Group that Nigeria as well as other developing economies that simultaneous rate hikes in response to increasing inflationary pressure may trigger a global recession and a string of financial crises is one of the trending stories in Nigerian newspapers on Friday.
About ten kilometres on the eastern outskirts of Rundu is the Mayana village, an area characterized by flood plains. In fact, Mayana means flood plains in the local dialect and is named after the low-lying ground surrounded by water.
The West African regional grouping has announced what it calls gradual sanctions on members of the military junta in Guinea for refusing to back down on their 36-month transition timetable, APA can report on Friday.