Essel Group Middle East (EGME) has acquired the Bada Potash Exploration License, located in Danakil Depression, Eritrea via its subsidiary Interu Mining and Trading. Earlier this year, EGME had also acquired oil reserves in the sub-Saharan region. Indian-based Essel Group is the promoter of Zee Entertainment, and is headed by Subhash Chandra Goel. The group’s primary […]

Power utility companies and stakeholders across Africa anticipate a brighter and different outlook for the sector in the decade ahead, according to a new report from PwC. Fifty one senior power and utility sector executives from 15 African countries took part in PwC’s Africa power & utilities survey. The report contained concern about some of the […]

Liberian senator Nyonblee Karngar-Lawrence is asking the country’s chief medical officer to explain how the free medical program of government is working across the country. A communication submitted Tuesday to plenary by the lawmaker, who represents Grand Bassa County, requested for Dr. Francis Kateh to appear before the body and also seeks the appearance of Health Minister Dr. Bernice Dahn […]

Public policy practitioners and students in Africa now have a chance to study a specialised masters course offered in twelve universities, and uniquely designed to meet the continent’s needs, which was launched in Nairobi, Kenya today. The Master of Research and Public Policy (MRPP) has been developed over the last three years through collaboration between […]

The Twin Cities of Minnesota are expected to host this year’s annual Liberian National Cultural Ambassadors’ cultural festival for the first time; James Kokulo Fasuekoi writes. The festival, named, ECHOES OF LIBERIAN CULTURE is now in its third year and was first launched in Boston, MA 2013. Rhode Island hosted it in 2014. Now Minnesota […]

Nigerians living in Scandinavia will be able to have their Bank Verification Number(BVN) registration done without traveling to Nigeria and when all is perfected, the details will be communicated across  to all Nigerians residing in Scandinavia, says Ayoola Lawal, the chairman/coordinator of All Progressives Congress Scandinavian Chapter. In a release to Nordic Africa News, Mr. Lawal […]

West Africa’s Ebola outbreak might be winding down, but the struggles facing survivors in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are far from over. Beyond psycho-social problems related to stigma and post-traumatic stress disorder, more than half of survivors say they are suffering from debilitating joint pain, headaches, and fatigue. At least 25 percent have experienced […]

Eritrea faces a number of challenges that require Eritreans to focus their energies on building up the country’s human resources, an Eritrean government official has said.   Yemane Gebreab, head of political affairs of Eritrea’s ruling party, the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), made the comment to Nordic Africa News (NAN) last week during the Eritrean […]

Akon Lighting Africa concluded its African road show Tuesday night in Benin. The three co-founders, Akon, Thione Niang and Samba Bathily inspected the new street lamps installed in the district of Pahou, near to the capital Cotonou with Prime Minister, Mr. Lionel Zinsou. Benin is the last stop on this two-week road show during which […]

When you say Black Lives Matter do you mean just Black American lives? What about the tens of thousands of black lives in Cuba that have been lost due to the covert war and the economic embargo still being waged against Cuba by the US government? Or what about the black lives that were lost […]