Trump and his wife received coronavirus vaccine before leaving the White House.

WEST AFRICA : Faure Gnassingbé to review progress on transition in Lomé on 8 March

La deuxième réunion du Groupe de soutien de la transition au Mali se déroulera dans la capitale togolaise. Plusieurs ministres des affaires étrangères de la Cedeao devraient faire le déplacement. Source link

Zimbabwe: Aston Villa’s Great Wall . . . Nakamba Earns Rave Reviews After Monster Show

Just call him the Aston Villa lucky charm – SIX appearances, 375 minutes on the field, no goal conceded by the English Premiership side. No wonder why Marvelous Nakamba’s name has been trending, both on social and mainstream media, after his blockbuster show in his team’s impressive 1-0 win over Leeds United at Elland Road […]

Amanda Gorman: Publisher Faces Backlash After Selecting White Dutch Writer To Translate Her Poems

Amanda Gorman continues to win adulation after she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in January, 2021. But now, a Dutch writer has stirred a bit of controversy after rejecting an assignment to translate Gorman’s works. According to The Associated Press, Marieke […]

Africa: Botswana Wants to Comply With CAF Club Licensing Regulations

A support mission for the benefit of club presidents of the Botswana Football League (BFL) was held from February 20 to 25, 2021, in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, to initiate the BFL’s clubs on the best way to comply with CAF club licensing regulations. Accompanied by a CAF club licensing instructor Kabelo Bosilong, Muhammad […]

Africa: AU – Angolan Head of State Gets Award

Luanda — Angolan President João Lourenço was distinguished by the African Union on Friday with the Recognition Award of the Heads of State and Government, whose countries have ratified the Agreement for the Creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). This was during a ceremony that took place on Friday (February 26), at […]

Ex-president expected to declare himself leader of Republican Party

ORLANDO, Fla. – Less than 40 days after leaving office – and less than two months after an insurrection mounted by some of his supporters – former President Donald Trump resumes political life Sunday with a speech designed to claim continuing leadership of the Republican Party.Trump is not expected to declare a 2024 presidential candidacy […]

KENYA : KenGen to manufacture its own solar panels

The public Kenya Electricity Generating Co. (KenGen) is intending to build a plant for assembling photovoltaic solar panels that will be powered by the Tana power station in Muranga County to the north of the capital Nairobi. Source link

South Africa: Parliament Shortlists Eight Candidates for Lottery Chair

Parliament’s Trade, Industry and Competition portfolio committee has finalised a shortlist of eight candidates to be interviewed for the vacant post of chairperson of the board of the National Lotteries Commission. The vacancy opened up after the 11-year scandal-ridden tenure of former chairperson Alfred Nevhunda ended on 30 November. Zandile Brown, who represents the Trade, […]

Unity Proves Elusive in Democrats’ Fight for $15

Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday.If the Democrats have a problem, it’s with the working class. Their support from voters without college degrees (particularly white voters, but not exclusively) has been slipping in recent years.The Republican Party, meanwhile, finds its own base more heavily tilted than ever before toward […]

Africa: Biden Comes Calling As Kenya Prepares to Chair AU Peace and Security Council

Nairobi — US President Joe Biden wants Kenya to use its position as chair of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) to help end conflicts in Ethiopia and Sudan. In the first formal telephone call with President Uhuru Kenyatta since he took charge, Mr Biden pledged a lasting partnership, and a focus on […]

JAPAN/AFRICA : Afreximbank courts Nissan and other leading vehicle manufacturers

The pan-African Afreximbank run by the Nigerian Benedict Oramah is seeking to cultivate good relations with vehicle manufacturers and with the management of Japan’s Nissan in particular. Source link

Biden tours Houston following deadly winter storm in Texas

President Biden praised relief workers for doing “God’s work” while visiting Houston on Friday in the wake of the deadly winter storm over Valentine’s Day weekend that still has tens of thousands of locals without safe water. Biden’s trip to Texas marked his first to a major disaster area since taking office last month. At […]

South Africa: Mother Loses Two Children and Friend in Crossroads Fire

The remains of five-year-old Andikhusele Mhaga, her bother Alunamda, aged three, and 31-year-old Mzwamadoda Dwayi were found among the charred rubble after the shack they were sleeping in caught alight on Friday morning. The sibling’s mother, Nolukholo Mhaga, and two other siblings managed to escape the blaze but have nowhere to sleep tonight. Photo: Nombulelo […]

Africa: Gambia U-20 Arrives in Nouakchott Ahead of Africa U-20 Quarter-Final Clash With CAR

The Gambia U-20 team arrived at the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Tuesday ahead of their 2021 Africa U-20 Youth Championship quarter-final encounter with Central Africa Republic on Friday 26 February 2021 at the Stade Olympique at 7 p.m. The Young Scorpions played all their group matches in Nouadihibou before traveling to Nouakchott for their last […]

Biden Administration Working Hard on COVID – BillMoyers.com

President Joe Biden, joined by Counselor to the President and White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, receives a briefing from Director of the NIH Dr. Francis Collins and Chief Medical Adviser to the President and Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at the […]

South Africa: Public Urged to Help Locate Missing Woman

The public is urged to help police in locating Agreement Tumelo Molapo, aged 23 from Nkaning in Bushbuckridge who went missing on Monday, 22 February 2021. Reports received by police indicate that Molapo was at Bushbuckridge shopping complex, running some errands with her aunt on the day of her disappearance. She then informed her aunt […]

Africa: World’s Biggest Stars Come Out to Support Global Citizen’s Recovery Plan For The World

Cape Town — “The urgency to get a vaccine to everyone, everywhere cannot be underestimated. As a country, we will be joining efforts to help the world recover better by ending the pandemic as a priority, addressing food security and hunger, getting all our children back to school, addressing climate change, and protecting the most […]

Kemp suspends Paulding DA Donovan from office

In an executive order signed Wednesday, Kemp wrote that Donovan “has voluntarily authorized his suspension” as DA. Under Georgia law, Donovan will remain suspended until his legal case is closed or his term ends, whichever occurs first.Donovan was re-elected in 2014 and 2018, so his term would expire at the end of 2022. He will […]

MAURITIUS : Warner Music settles in Mauritius to market Punjab hits

The American entertainment colossus Warner Music decided to create a base in Mauritius’ financial centre at the end of February in order to enter the Indian market, partnering with South African firm Ziiki Media. Source link

South Africa: Treasury Projects the Economy to Grow By 3.3 Percent

As the country begins to roll out a massive vaccination programme, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to grow by a rate of 3.3 percent in 2021. Releasing the Budget Review for the next three years, the National Treasury said on Wednesday the COVID-19 shock is estimated to have led to a 7.2 percent […]

Rachel Maddow Unloads On GOP Senators For Inventing New Standards For Biden’s Cabinet Picks

During her program on Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow ripped into the Republican double standard being used to evaluate Joe Biden‘s Cabinet picks. Maddow blasted Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Richard Burr (R-NC), in particular, for inventing new requirements for Cabinet nominees, simply because it is now a Democratic president making the nominations.“So Senator Cruz is […]

Africa: More FDIs Forecast for Africa in 2021

Although 2020 witnessed unprecedented outflows of foreign direct investments due to the uncertainties created by Covid-19, 2021 looks promising with projections of significant volumes of FDI returning to emerging markets in Africa. According to Faizal Bhana, director of Jersey Finance in the Middle East and Africa, the African continent remains a highly attractive market, particularly […]

South Africa: Unemployment Rises to 32.5 Percent

South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.5% in the last three months of 2020, Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has revealed. The increase presents a 1.7 percentage point increase from the third quarter of 2020. Despite the grim picture painted in the fourth quarter (Q4) Labour Force Survey, released on Tuesday, Stats SA said the Quarter 4 […]

Perdue Will Not Challenge Warnock for Georgia Senate Seat

Former Senator David Perdue of Georgia has decided he will not run against an incumbent Democrat, Senator Raphael Warnock, in 2022, just a week after Mr. Perdue announced he had filed paperwork to kick-start a possible new campaign.Mr. Perdue, a Republican and former businessman who lost in a January runoff election to the state’s other […]

Africa: The Republic of Namibia Ratifies the Treaty for the Establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA)

The Republic of Namibia becomes the fifth African Union (AU) Member State to ratify the Treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) on 19 January 2021 in Windhoek, Namibia and deposited the instrument of accession, to the Commission of the AU on 18 February 2020 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. H.E. Amira Elfadil […]

KENYA : Tavaziva Madzinga gets off to a tricky start at the head of Britam

Executives at Kenyan insurance giant Britam were so put out by Zimbabwean national Tavaziva Madzinga being parachuted in to head the company that they forced the previous incumbent, Benson Wairegi, to postpone his retirement so as to ensure a smooth transition. Source link

Democrats march ahead with critical COVID-19 relief while Republicans whine

Campaign Action That would certainly ease passage of the bill, if the Senate didn’t have to take votes on overruling the Parliamentarian on whether that piece of the bill can stay in. If the Parliamentarian accepts it, it will stay in the bill on the House side. If she says it doesn’t stay in, the […]

Southern Africa: Leveraging EVs for Clean Mobility, Energy Access and Prosperity in SADC

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was established with the key objective of enhancing regional economic integration for the benefit of its inhabitants. It is home to an estimated 363 million people, of whom many still lack adequate access to both energy and mobility services. SADC member states are similarly characterised by inadequate and deteriorating […]

Africa: Macron Pledges to Share Covid Vaccines With Poorer Nations, Urges G7 to Join Him

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on rich Western nations to transfer 3-5 percent of their Covid-19 vaccines to Africa and developing countries elsewhere, ahead of Friday’s G7 summit. The presidency confirmed that France would share five percent of its stock with Africa – even if other rich nations do not join in. In an […]

Former Trump advisor says Texas power outages are consequence of electing Biden

The New York TimesCruz and Cuomo Face Scandal. Trump Can’t Save Them.Even by Washington standards, this has been a particularly shameless week. With millions of Texans freezing in their homes, Sen. Ted Cruz fled to a Mexican beach, offering his constituents little more than the political cliché of wanting to be a “good dad.” (Apparently, […]