London-based risk and compliance consultancy Control Risks has released the November edition of its Africa Risk Reward Index, and predicts increased returns on investment for businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the near future, driven by economic growth and increasing political stability. Control Risks’ periodic Risk Reward indices for Africa provide an overview of the potential returns on investment in… Read more »
Women in Africa are at the greatest risk of anywhere in the world to experience violence. This is according to a UN report that also said almost a quarter of women in Nigeria have been victims of sexual or physical violence committed by a previous husband. This is just the reported incidences, they are many others that go unreported out… Read more »
THE US-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has rejected Zimbabwe’s application to annul an US$195 million award to a German family whose property was expropriated under the controversial land reform programme.
Rampaging Boko Haram insurgents overran a Nigerian Army battalion in Borno State on Sunday, killing the unit’s commander and dozens of soldiers, military sources have told PREMIUM TIMES.
Cameroon’s military says it has freed nine students and a teacher who were kidnapped this week from a school in one of the country’s restive English-speaking regions. It is the third time this month that students have been abducted from schools in the Anglophone regions.
Somalia Parliamentary Committee on Finance and Budget has released a new report alleging mismanagement of funds at the Ministry of Finance, Radio Dalsan reports.
As the United Nations launched its 16-day worldwide campaign to combat violence against women on Sunday, I was reminded of how, while it is a global problem, it is one that leaves women in developing countries particularly vulnerable. A UN report shows women in Africa are most at risk of violence. In Nigeria where I grew up, 23% of women have been victims of physical or… Read more »
Career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde has been appointed Ethiopia’s first female president. On the brink of retirement, she did not seem destined for a political career. Ethiopian parliamentarians unanimously appointed Sahle-Work Zewde as president on Thursday 25 October after the surprise resignation of Mulatu Teshome, who had held the post since 2013. This may have been a case of lucky timing. The… Read more »
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to more than 200, the health ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said it had recorded 201 deaths from the virus and that 291 cases have been confirmed since the outbreak began in August. About half of the cases were in Beni, a city of 800,000 people,… Read more »
Twenty-five separatists were killed Tuesday in fighting in a restive English-speaking region of Cameroon, security officials said Wednesday. “Twenty-five ‘Amba Boys’ were killed in three clashes in Mbot,” a village near the town of Nkambe, a source in the capital Yaounde told the AFP, confirming a security source in the troubled Northwest Region. “Amba Boys” refers to separatists who last… Read more »