Category: Rest of Africa

Unitel sued dos Santos’ Dutch company Unitel International Holdings (UIH) in 2020 over loans that were provided in 2012 and 2013, when dos Santos was a director of Unitel, to fund UIH’s acquisition of shares in telecoms companies.

They were speaking at an event to mark the anniversary of the creation of the AU's precursor, the Organisation of African Unity, on May 25, 1963.

President Buhari, who first came to power on May 29, 2015 and was re-elected in 2019, is to hand over to 71-year-old Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was declared the winner of the 25 February presidential election.

The one-week truce, the latest in a series of agreements that have all been systematically violated, was breached only minutes after it took effect on Monday night.

Espace TV and Kalac TV posted an image of two hands pushing apart steel bars against a backdrop of the national colours of red, yellow and green, with "A Day Without Press" written underneath. 

They reported combat in north Khartoum, and air strikes in the east of the capital shortly after 9:45 pm (1945 GMT) Monday night when the truce was to take effect, with the smell of smoke still lingering after gunfire and explosions rocked the city throughout...

Invictus Energy, a firm listed on the Australia Securities Exchange, announced last week that samples from its first test well near the Mozambican border with Zimbabwe had confirmed the presence of light oil, gas condensate and helium.

But then as now, 20 years since it transformed to the African Union in 2002, the continental bloc faces more failures than successes, analysts say.

President Afwerki, often shunned in the West this week met with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. He also toured Chengdu in Sichuan Province where he held “fruitful discussions” on investments in infrastructure, agriculture and tourism.

Just last week, the UN said more than 17,000 metric tonnes of food stored in a WFP warehouse in Khartoum had been looted, costing the agency about $13 million worth of losses in looted food items.