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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
6/25/2024 6:51:31 PM
The 2024 Pentathlon Junior World Championships is currently taking place in Alexandria, reports Inas Mazhar
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
6/25/2024 6:49:28 PM
The dates for the next Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco have been announced in what is becoming an increasingly crowded football schedule, reports Alaa Abdel-Ghani
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
6/25/2024 6:46:35 PM
At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, set to begin in just 30 days, Mohamed Shaaban will make history as the first Arab and African to serve as a technical delegate in taekwondo, reports Abeer Anwar
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World
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Africa
6/24/2024 7:06:21 PM
South Africa's weakened African National Congress (ANC) denounced on Monday "outrageous demands" for cabinet positions by its coalition partners in documents leaked to the press amid negotiations to form a government.
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World
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Africa
6/24/2024 1:08:27 PM
The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S. military officer meets with his counterparts this week at the Chiefs of Defence conference.
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World
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Africa
6/23/2024 8:52:53 PM
A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighbouring Benin, both as a result of last year’s coup that toppled the West African nation’s democratic government.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
6/23/2024 2:40:43 PM
Between April 20-27, 2024, Hangzhou, China, witnessed a convergence of Africa’s brightest entrepreneurial minds. The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, an initiative by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, played host to 40 participants, including top 10 Heroes, finalists and partners from across the continent.
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World
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Africa
6/22/2024 4:50:56 PM
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani called on West African countries to come together in the face of jihadism, in an interview with AFP ahead of the country's presidential vote.
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Sports
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Africa
6/21/2024 11:37:36 PM
The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Morocco from December 21 2025 to January 18 2026, Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said on Friday.
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Business
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Energy
6/21/2024 5:18:43 PM
Niger has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world's biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France and the African country's ruling junta.
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Sports
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National Teams
6/20/2024 4:25:00 PM
Egypt have climbed one place in FIFA's June rankings released on Thursday and moved to third place among African countries.
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World
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Africa
6/19/2024 5:15:14 PM
Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a new report said Wednesday, the latest trend in the militants' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations.
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World
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Africa
6/19/2024 2:07:36 PM
South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second full term as president in Pretoria on Wednesday, after his weakened African National Congress (ANC) struck a government coalition deal.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2024 4:59:22 PM
Niger rebels fighting for the release of the country's democratically elected leader say they have disabled part of a crucial pipeline carrying crude oil to Benin.
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World
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Africa
6/17/2024 5:27:42 PM
The African Union on Monday condemned "massacres" in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo that killed 150 people in June.
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Business
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Economy
6/16/2024 12:35:10 PM
Afreximbank, a pan-African multilateral financial institution, has raised $38 billion in funding since 2014 through its central bank deposit programme, according to vice-president Denys Denya.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
6/15/2024 6:44:47 PM
In a bar in Gabon's capital Libreville, revellers get up and dance as soon as the DJ plays N'Tcham -- a local rhythmic genre born out of the city's prisons.
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World
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Africa
6/15/2024 12:56:39 PM
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected for a second term after his humbled ANC cobbled together an unprecedented coalition government.
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Business
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Economy
6/14/2024 2:47:48 PM
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) launched its latest economic reports – African Trade Report 2024 and African Trade and Economic Outlook Report 2024 – at the Afreximbank Annual Meetings (AAM) 2024 held on Friday in Nassau, The Bahamas.
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Opinion
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6/14/2024 2:44:03 PM
The task is immense, because Africa’s challenges are great. Nearly 500 million Africans live in poverty, while conflict, climate change, unsustainable debt burdens, and other crises cast a shadow over the continent’s economic outlook.
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