On 19 November, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven presented more measures to combat terrorism in Sweden. These measures focus on giving government agencies a new tool for information gathering, biometric passport controls and considering camera surveillance for buildings where there is a general threat and for particularly vulnerable places: Secret data interception The Government will task […]

Four years after it was first used in a mass vaccination campaign, the MenAfriVac vaccine has achieved an extraordinary outcome; cases of meningitis A have dropped to almost zero in the epidemic belt across Africa. But if it hadn’t been for an experimental partnership between the World Health Organization and the not-for-profit health organisation, PATH […]

Bharti Airtel Africa a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 17 countries across Africa, today announced its partnership with Facebook which will see the launch of Free Basics in Africa. Free Basics is a set of basic websites and services to introduce people to the internet and demonstrate how it adds value to their lives. They […]

The chairman and national coordinator of the Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Scandinavia Chapter Ayoola Lawal has strongly condemned Friday’s coordinated extremist attacks in Paris, France  and called on world leaders to urgently look for peace in the wake of senseless killings across continents. In a statement released in Stockholm, Sweden over the weekend, Mr. Lawal said “if the extremists […]

Togo’s former capital city, Aneho, and dozens of surrounding villages, along with the main road that links the west African country to Benin, are likely to disappear from the map by 2038, local authorities and international experts say, if nothing is done to reverse the erosion that is currently eating away between six and 10 […]

The commissioner of the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) Elfrieda Stewart Tamba says strategic management cannot be overlooked in this century of customs, general revenue administration as well as business management anywhere in the world. Customs today has moved away from the traditional gatekeeper concept to an approach which meets the growing demand of trade facilitation. It requires the implementation of […]

Fatima Beyina-Moussa, CEO of ECAir, Equatorial Congo Airlines,, the national airline of the Republic of Congo, chaired the proceedings of the 47th General Assembly of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA).  The event, under the high patronage of Denis Sassou N’Guesso, President of the Republic of Congo, was held from 8-10 November 2015 at the Complexe […]

Are European leaders forcing their own migration agenda on Africa? Why are they conflating development aid with migration policy? What is wrong with introducing more safe and legal migration routes? For refugee and migrant rights advocates, the action plan launched in Malta today at the end of a two-day meeting of 60 European and African […]

Western Union on Monday announced its support to the children of SOS Children’s Village ” Sanankoroba ” through the donation of school supplies. School kits were distributed to about 100 orphans for the academic year 2015-2016 . This initiative is part of the social responsibility program of Western Union, which aims to promote education as one […]

Africanstates provides information on the investment opportunities in all 54 countries in Africa. It also provides advice on where an investor can procure assistance to invest in every country in Africa. Africa has risen. Carpe diem. Seize the day. The information contained in Africanstates is intended for the use by investors who may largely be unfamiliar with […]