Ongoing tensions over the Nile waters have heightened after Sudan’s Minister for Irrigation and Water Resources Yasser Abbas warned that any unilateral move by Ethiopia to fill its Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) “would threaten Sudan’s national security.” His comments come at a time when both countries have accused each other’s security forces of attacking civilians…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has excluded Burundi and Tanzania from the list of African countries set to receive COVID-19 vaccines through its COVAX scheme. The global health body aims to start shipping about 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa in February, and the list of countries that will receive them, together with their…
Ghana has signed an interim trade agreement with the U.K., one of the last bilateral deals hanging in the balance following Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. The signed agreement restores the duty-free and quota-free access Ghanaian exporters had to the U.K. market pre-Brexit, according to a joint statement posted on the U.K. government website….