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Kenya and the United States formally launched negotiations on Wednesday for a bilateral trade pact that the two economies hope could serve as a model for additional agreements across the African continent. In a joint statement, trade…

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday announced a “phased reopening” of the country, with the resumption of international flights from August 1 as well as the lifting of internal travel restrictions. The move comes as pressure mounts…

Desert locusts continue to threaten Kenya’s food supply after invading the north-western part of the country by the millions. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations works with Kenyan logisticians to search for…

To equip youth and users with digital skills to navigate the digital space, Technology firm, Facebook Monday starts to train 20,000 in Nigeria and other six sub-Saharan African countries in a new initiative called "My Digital World".  …

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says its COVID-19 emergency packages have reached five geographic regions in Africa. The AfDB’s Communications and External Relations Department made this known in a statement on Saturday. The bank…

The Nigerian government has granted Spanish Digital Signature company Lleida.net, a 20-year patent, and the first on electronic notification and certification. Ramon Pedrosa, the media contact said the patent, granted by the Intellectual…

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Saturday that the country’s coronavirus measures would be extended and its borders with Tanzania and Somalia closed. The East African nation will stop the movement of people and vehicles —…

Kenya and Uganda were hit by a power blackout on Saturday, and Kenya Power said the outage on Kenya’s grid was caused by a fault on a high voltage line. The neighbouring countries’ grids are interconnected. In January 2018, both suffered…

The number of coronavirus cases in Africa rose to 6,470 on Thursday, the Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has reported. The figure rose from the 5,940 cases reported on April 1 in 49 African countries where coronavirus cases have…

South Africa braced for a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown Thursday, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus across the continent. Some 57 million…