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China investors call it quits as Xi, ‘zero COVID’ sap confidence

Taipei, Taiwan – For months, Singaporean investor Anndy Lian has been selling off Chinese stocks to reduce his portfolio’s exposure to the world’s...

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Napoli owner: We will no longer sign AFCON players unless they agree to waiver

Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis said on Tuesday he would not sign any more African players unless they agreed to not take part...

Tshisekedi and Kagame at loggerheads

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Felix Antoine Tshisekedi has fired back to President Paul Kagame’s accusations that Kinshasa continued to...

Private Sector employs 90 percent of Africa’s working age

While address a session of the 14th African Union High Level Private Sector Forum at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi,...

Pakistan’s rupee sinks as uncertainties over IMF bailout loom

Pakistan’s rupee is poised for its biggest monthly decline in more than two years as deteriorating finances and uncertainty over the International...

Ten days ultimatum lapses for old bank notes

Billions of Burundian Francs were collected throughout the ten days of the ultimatum given by the country’s Central Bank to phase out...

Burundi general elections conducted amid tight security

One of the voters casting her vote in Nyakabiga polling station on May 20th. 2020. PHOTO|FILE. By 6 am...

U.S. approves possible sale of military assistance to Taiwan

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of military technical assistance to Taiwan worth an...

Patrick Day: Boxer dies in hospital four days after suffering brain injury in Charles Conwell fight

Boxer Patrick Day has died aged 27 - four days after suffering a brain injury in a fight against Charles Conwell.

Kenyan MPs in fresh row over iconic Nairobi Expressway

Kenya's legislators have kicked a fresh storm, calling for the audit of the iconic Nairobi Expressway that cost Sh87 billion. Kimani Ichung'wah the...

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POLITICS

Gitega detracts Catholic Church statement

Last week the Secretary General of the ruling party CNDD-FDD Evariste Ndayishimiye slammed the Catholic leadership statement, accusing the church of...

Burundi’s former Attorney General appointed to head Constitutional Court

Burundi’s senate has this Wednesday approved the new Constitutional Court president who was initially appointed by the country’s head of state Evariste...

Ndayishimiye receive hero’s welcome  

Burundi’s president Evariste Ndayishimiye received a hero’s welcome from Ethiopia after attending the 36th ordinary Heads of state summit of the African...

Guterres warns of terrorism in Afghanistan

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned of the effects of terrorism in Afghanistan, blaming it on a power vacuum.

Burundi travel document applications goes digital

Burundi’s Immigration Authority has announced an online website to apply for different travel documents including passports. “All the documents...

Burundi to receive $271 million from IMF

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved a 38-month arrangement under the

BUSINESS

ATIDI Backs $7.7 million Hydro Project in Burundi

The pan-African trade insurance agency, The African Trade Investment and Development Insurance (ATIDI), has supported Songa Energy's USD 7.7 million run-of-the-river hydro project...

Tanzania’s GDP growth to reach 6.3 percent in this year

Tanzania's real GDP growth is expected to reach 6.3% in 2024, this was revealed during the CEO Roundtable Meeting on East African...

Uganda to join single African air transport market

So far, only fourteen countries out of 29 that belong to the Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Community (IOC) have...

Burundi-DRC constructs 130m bridge to ease movement

Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo are constructing a 130-meter bridge with an estimated cost of approximately 24 billion Burundian Francs...

Ndayishimiye meets stakeholders to revamp the economy

Burundi’s president Evariste Ndayishimiye on Thursday March 14, 2024 met with stakeholders and those in Burundi’s ministry of trade, Transport, Industry and...
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Burundi travel document applications goes digital

Burundi’s Immigration Authority has announced an online website to apply for different travel documents including passports. “All the documents that...

Burundi Says 10 Troops Killed In Attack on AU Base In Somalia

Nairobi (AFP), May 4 – Ten Burundian peacekeepers were killed in a ferocious attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists on an African Union base in Somalia,...

China conducts military drill ahead of Tibetan Uprising Day

Ahead of Tibetan Uprising Day, China conducted a major military drill near Tibet bordering India. Authorities in the Shigatse Military...

Rwanda’s ace Buravan dies aged 27

Rwanda’s artist Yvan Buravan has died at the age of 27 succumbing to pancreatic cancer in India according to an announcement made by...

EABC: Market East Africa as a Single Investment Destination

East African Business Council (EABC) Chairperson Angelina Ngalula on Tuesday called on the governments of the East African Community (EAC) Partners States to...

UN Rights Council: Taliban Seek to Erase Women, Girls From Public Life

Delegates attending an urgent debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council on the status of women and girls in Afghanistan are urging the...

Vital’o loses two opening league games, rocks bottom of the table

As day 2 of the Primus League kicked off last weekend Vital’o locked horns with Inter Stars in Bujumbura with both teams having...

Top Chinese Diplomat meets Zimbabwe president to strengthen ties

Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa where both the leaders spoke of cooperation in expanding their partnership to...

COMESA hands over the Chair of Tripartite Task Force

The Tripartite brings together three RECs, including the East African Community into a cooperative framework on the implementation of the Tripartite Free Trade...