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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a significant development for the African continent and presents a tremendous opportunity for Nigeria to increase its trade volume, encourage tourism and boost its economy, Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, has said.

Mr Adebayo disclosed this while delivering his speech during the National Tourism Transportation Summit (NTTS) and Expo recently held in Abuja.

The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu Province that began in October, is officially over, national health authorities announced this Thursday.  

Washington.- The United States will support the Dominican Republic with pilot programs that will determine best practices for future interagency cooperation.

The country was mentioned in the United States’ Anti-Corruption Strategy, in which it is established as a fundamental interest for American national security.

The document, dated December 2021 and signed by the White House, defines corruption

that “corrodes” public trust and fuels “popular cynicism” towards effective governance.

Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc yet again, reaffirms its leadership position across Africa, as the bank has been globally recognised as the African Bank of the year 2021 by the Banker Magazine, a leading global finance news published by the Financial Times of London.

A resurgence of Bubonic plague in Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is putting young lives at risk, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday. 

NEW YORK, USA, 25 August 2021-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Poverty, conflict and displacement are contributing to the return of the centuries-old illness for the first time in more than a decade, and new research supported by the agency revealed children are especially vulnerable.   

The vaccination against Ebola of high-risk populations began on Monday in Côte d’Ivoire following the discovery of an outbreak in the country three days ago. The swift response came after vaccines manufactured by Merck, which the World Health Organization (WHO) helped to secure to fight a four-month long outbreak in neighbouring Guinea, were quickly sent to the country. 

By Alois Vinga

UNITED KINGDOM-based Zimbabwean business magnate, Strive Masiyiwa’s firm, Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with Facebook in a landmark fibre network expansion project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The project will also connect the East and West Africa regions, and in the process improve internet access to over 30 million people in that part of the continent.

Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy near the eastern Congolese city of Goma.
 
The UN World Food Program says at least two other people were killed and several more injured in the attack Monday that killed Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio.  

A UN spokesman told VOA the other two fatalities were an Italian national and a Congolese WFP driver. The spokesman says the attack targeted two WFP vehicles travelling about 25 kilometres northeast of Goma.

Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Luca Attanasio, has been killed in an attack on a United Nation’s convoy. Two other people in the convoy also died from the attack.

The convoy was attacked around 10:15 a.m. Monday in eastern Congo, Al Jazeera reported.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack as there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has embarked on a four-day journey to some Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to discuss issues around crude oil production cut.

A statement by his special Adviser on Media, Garba Deen Muhammad, on Friday, said the countries include Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville and South Sudan.