NAIROBI, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- State-owned Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) and Chinese firm, Huawei said Friday they have partnered in order to scale up cyber security skills in the east African nation.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The South African mining sector said Thursday the strike by transport utility Transnet is costing the country, businesses, and the mining sector billions of rands, damaging an already fragile economy.
NAIROBI, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Thursday said that Chinese manufacturers are playing a positive role in the country's industrialization agenda.
Anthony Mwangi, the chief executive officer of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), said in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that Chinese industrialists have raised the standards of competition in the country, which has led to the development of more local innovations.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The government said Wednesday that the continuing strike by workers of Transnet, the national port and freight-rail operator in South Africa, is harming the economic growth prospects.
LAGOS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- More than 500 people have been killed and 1,546 others injured this year in Nigeria due to heavy rains and floods, an official said Tuesday.
Floods have so far wreaked havoc in 31 states and the Federal Capital Territory, affecting over 1.4 million people and dislocating 790,254, said Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
YAOUNDE, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- At least four civilians were killed after the terror group Boko Haram raided a community in Cameroon's Far North region, according to locals and security sources.
The attack took place Monday night in Moutaz village of Tourou district of the region.
An army official who asked not to be named told Xinhua that the terrorists raided the civilian community after accusing them of collaborating with the army.
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania's Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has called for reinforcement toward the protection of wildlife corridors to lessen human-wildlife conflicts, the ministry said in a statement late Saturday.
The statement said the call was made by the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Juma Mkomi, in a meeting with wildlife conservation stakeholders in the northern city of Arusha.
MOGADISHU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers have killed 14 al-Shabab militants, including a senior al-Shabab leader in charge of the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia, a military commander confirmed Saturday.
A commander of Unit 66 of the 14 October brigade who led the operation told SNA Radio that Mohamed Nur Shire was killed in a sting operation conducted in the Janale area Friday night.
"SNA killed Mohamed Nur Shire who was in charge of terrorism in the Lower Shabelle region and 13 conspirators in the Janale area," the military radio reported.
ACCRA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat based in Accra, the capital of Ghana, late Friday launched a guided trade initiative for seven member countries.
These seven countries which have signaled their readiness to start trading under AfCFTA were Tanzania, Mauritania, Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon, Rwanda, and Ghana.
NIAMEY, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from heavy downpours in Niger since June has risen to 192, said the country's General Directorate of Civil Protection in a briefing to the press Friday.
Apart from the 192 fatalities, 263,671 people were adversely affected, including 200 injuries, due to torrential rains, said Niger's General Directorate of Civil Protection in the briefing in Niamey, the capital of Niger.
The tragedies occurred as a result of drowning or the collapse of their habitats, mostly built from clay.
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