Africa Business

[Citizen] Nairobi -- Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has called for the crafting of a joint European Union and Africa Covid-19 response strategy.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) is planning to operate a chartered flight to repatriate Tanzanians, with majority being students stranded in China.

[allAfrica] Covid-19 has changed the world, but African communities are working to innovate in the face of the crisis. One of the institutions participating in discussions with African partners is the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), an independent U.S. government agency established by Congress to invest in African grassroots organizations, entrepreneurs and small-and medium-sized enterprises. AllAfrica's Juanita Williams visited by video with USADF President and CEO C.D. Glin about the

[ANGOP] Benguela -- The Benguela-based Catumbela Industrial Development hub has since july a new factory of water and fuel plastic containers, its human resources director, Sérgio Rodrigues, told ANGOP on Thursday.

[ANGOP] Luanda -- At least 77 percent of the cyber attacks in Angola are caused by e-mails, said Wednesday the head of the legal office of the telecomunication company (Angola Cables),Nadia Ribeiro.

[ANGOP] Rome -- Angola and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed Wednesday a 26.2 million Euros financing agreement in Rome (Italy) to implement the project to improve the resilience projects of small producers.

[SAnews.gov.za] Gauteng Public Transport and Roads Infrastructure MEC, Jacob Mamabolo, has welcomed a court order aimed at keeping the peace in taxi operations in the Johannesburg CBD.

[Ethiopian Herald] Actively Taking Part in Basin Wide Initiatives and Signing the Comprehensive Framework Agreement (CFA), Ethiopia Has Been Playing a Constructive Role in Promoting a Win-Win Solution in the Utilization of the Nile Waters.

[Monitor] Despite an increase in all other parameters used in determining electricity, reduced international fuel prices have enabled the regulator to maintain the power tariff as it was the last quarter.

[Monitor] The sugar industry in Uganda is headed for a crisis after the Kenyan government last week ordered for an immediate ban on the importation of brown sugar and cane.

[Monitor] Anglo -- Irish Tullow Oil Plc shareholders yesterday afternoon voted by 99 per cent majority to sell the company's entire stake (33.33 per cent) in Uganda's oil fields and the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The transaction is expected to be completed in the coming months.

[Monitor] Insurance regulator has added mobile phone as a new payment platform for Motor Third Party Insurance to supplement walk-ins and bancassurance.

[Monitor] Manufacturers under Uganda Alcohol Industry Association and Uganda Water and Juice Manufacturers Association have said they have gathered at least 500 signatures in a process that seeks to petition President Museveni against the cost of digital tax stamps.

[The Patriot] Industry players within the construction industry have expressed shock at how Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) disregarded their own procurement rules and regulations, and even national policies when dealing with Khato Civils/South Zambezi Evolution Engineers JV for the construction of the 100km long transmission pipeline and associated works from Masama Wellfield to Mmamashia water treatment plant.

[The Herald] SCHOOLS should utilise arable land at their disposal to engage in horticultural projects to be self-reliant and to empower learners with requisite life skills which heighten their participation in the development of the country, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Ambassador Cain Mathema has said.

[The Herald] Zimbabwe is determined to re-engage the world and is doing everything it can to improve the economic welfare of its people but needs the albatross rock of illegal economic sanctions imposed by western countries in order to move fast, a senior Government official said.

[Nation] The race for the World Trade Organisation's Director-General's seat is once again testing the unity of African countries in fronting common candidates for international agencies.

[The Herald] Zimbabwe should continue to take anticipatory measures and preparatory steps to fight swarms of locusts in case fresh outbreaks in the coming 20/21 cropping season, a senior plant crop disease expert has said.

[The Herald] One of the country's major tobacco contract companies, Ethical Leaf Tobacco, has unveiled a $660 million input facility called the Gold Class Scheme.

[The Herald] Fuel dealers allowed to charge in foreign currency are now competing on price, with most charging well below the legal maximums of US$1,28 a litre for petrol and US$1,09 for diesel.

[RFI] Imagine you're in a country standing on the brink of coronavirus. More than 1,000 confirmed cases. Twenty deaths. You know the full force of the pandemic is coming -- because it's already hit the country next door. Your hospitals are marginally better prepared than they were in March. But only marginally: still less than 100 ventilators for a country of 16 million people. And there's a bigger problem. If you are hospitalised, you'll find few nurses to care for you.

[New Era] Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) leader Mike Kavekotora says Covid-19 cases at Walvis Bay are getting out of hand, accusing government of only announcing new infections without taking decisive action to mitigate the impact of the virus.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia reiterated its position that the AU-led process is best suited to negotiate and resolve differences as the AU, AU Bureau Members and leaders of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are poised to reviewing the outcome of the 11-day negotiation.

[New Era] The National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) has deployed itss investigators to determine the veracity of details emerging from one of Namibia's biggest corruption scandals, dubbed Fishrot.

[GroundUp] The National Lotteries Commission is to be summonsed to appear before Parliament's Trade, Industry and Competition Portfolio Committee. Archive photo: Raymond Joseph

[Nation] National carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) has resumed local flights today.

[This Day] Abuja -- The Senate at an executive session wednesday mandated the leadership of the National Assembly to urgently meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the contentious issue of the employment of 774,000 public workers.

[Premium Times] The Senate on Wednesday urged the federal government to direct the Ministry of Labour and Employment to set up a committee to review the age limit for job seekers in the country, to allow competent applicants to be employed by the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government.

[Daily Trust] Lagos -- Pressure has continued to mount on the Federal Government to lift the ban on international flights less than a week after the reopening of airports for national flights.

[Daily Trust] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said, in line with international best practices and to avoid duplication of functions, it should retain exclusive right to the licensing of banks and the revocation of same when a bank goes distressed.