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March 10, 2016
Power generation drops to record 1,580MW in Nigeria – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) yesterday confirmed that the power generation level has dropped to […]
March 10, 2016
Uganda unveils Africa’s first solar-powered bus – Ugandan Paul Isaac Musasizi, in his mid-thirties, is the CEO of technology company Kiira Motors Corporation and the brains behind […]
March 10, 2016
U.S. dispatches emergency aid for Ethiopian drought – The Obama administration is sending disaster response teams to northern Ethiopia to try to address a humanitarian emergency […]
March 10, 2016
Buhari: Nigeria Can’t Afford Forex Demand for Students Studying Abroad – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria cannot afford to sell forex to parents […]
March 10, 2016
Hunger intensifies in areas suffering from drought, flooding and conflict – UN report – Thirty-four countries, including 27 in Africa, are currently in need of […]
March 9, 2016
From Africa, an unexpected lesson in how to topple terrorists – After the self-proclaimed Islamic State swept in from Syria in 2014 and grabbed huge swaths […]
March 9, 2016
Women and girls should be at core of disaster risk reduction, UN human rights monitors told – Women and girls need to be at the […]
March 8, 2016
Large gender gaps remain across global labour market, UN agency reports – Despite some modest gains in some regions in the world, millions of women are […]
March 8, 2016
Women’s participation rate in parliaments slows, even as more gain top seats – IPU – Despite an increase in the number of women Speakers of Parliament, […]