Belgium and Egypt drew 1-1 of their World Cup opener on Monday after a second-half Belgian equalizer spoiled Mohamed Salah’s thirty fourth birthday. Emam Ashour opened the scoring early within the first half in Seattle, earlier than Romelu Lukaku got here off the bench after the hour to pressure Egypt’s Mohamed Hany into an personal…
Ghana will face Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia and Somalia in Group C of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The draw was held on Tuesday in Cairo, the place African nations realized their routes to the continental event. Two groups will qualify from every of the 12 teams of 4 for the finals. The…
LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) – British police arrested a person after two folks have been stabbed in an space of north London with a big Jewish inhabitants, a neighborhood organisation stated on Wednesday, amid a current spate of anti-semitic assaults within the capital. The Jewish organisation, Shomrim, stated on X {that a} man was seen…
Ecobank Transnational Integrated (BRVM: ETIT) is getting ready to boost $500 million via a subordinated debt challenge because it strikes to refinance a part of its stability sheet forward of a regulatory deadline in June 2026. The Lomé-based lender plans to make use of the proceeds to train a name choice on about $350 million…
H.E. Ambassador Selma Malika Haddadi, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Fee, is main the African Union delegation to the 2026 World Financial institution Group Spring Conferences in Washington, D.C., the place she is enterprise a sequence of high-level engagements to advance Africa’s improvement priorities and reinforce the strategic partnership between the African Union and…
MTN Group has introduced a big overhaul of its board of administrators, appointing 5 unbiased non-executive administrators as a part of what it described as complete succession planning. The appointments, efficient 31 March 2026, embrace Herman Bosman, Adv Ouma Rasethaba, Stephane Richard, Ignatius Sehoole and Saf Yeboah-Amankwah. Bosman is the chairman of MTN Group Fintech…
Johannesburg – APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the pan-African communications consultancy integrating advisory, execution, and proprietary information distribution, has received gold within the Northern Africa class on the 2026 Africa SABRE Awards for its marketing campaign, GITEX Africa Morocco 2025: A Media-Fuelled Journey for Tech Excellence. Delivered for GITEX Africa, the marketing campaign generated greater than 3,600…
NSIA Group is restructuring its monetary companies enterprise with the creation of NSIA Holding Financière, a brand new entity designed to centralize its banking and monetary actions. The transfer follows a strategic reorganization launched in 2025 aimed toward enhancing operational coordination and supporting enlargement throughout African monetary markets. The group stated the brand new construction…
UNITED NATIONS, New York – On 12 March, the of the Group of Mates for the Elimination of Violence towards Ladies and Women marked its fifth anniversary on the sidelines of the seventieth session of the Fee on the Standing of Ladies (CSW70). ‘5 Years On: Securing Achievements and Making certain Sturdy Impression’ introduced collectively…
A senior Hamas official advised AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist motion was within the remaining part of choosing a brand new chief, with two outstanding figures competing for the place. Hamas not too long ago accomplished the formation of a brand new Shura Council of greater than 80 members, a consultative physique largely…