GABORONE: Botswana is facing renewed pressure on its diamond-driven economy after S&P Global Ratings lowered the country’s long-term sovereign rating to BBB- from BBB and its short-term rating to A-3 from A-2, while keeping a negative outlook....
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The European Union has unveiled a €1.87 billion budget for 2025 to address global crises, focusing on emergencies in Gaza, Syria, Ukraine, and other critical regions worldwide....
The OPEC Fund has committed $30M to co-finance Africa’s largest onshore wind power project in Egypt’s Gulf of Suez, expected to power 1M homes and cut emissions by 2.5M tons annually....
Egypt’s food exports reached $5.5 billion by November 2024, marking a 17% growth over 2023, with key markets including Arab nations, Europe, Africa, and the United States....
MENA Newswire expands across Asia, Africa, and Europe, now covering 4,000 individual media endpoints....
MENA Newswire expands across Asia, Africa, and Europe, now covering 4,000 individual media endpoints....
Twelve African nations are poised to receive an allocation of 18 million doses of the inaugural malaria vaccine in a remarkable step towards combating one of the continent’s deadliest diseases. Over the next two years,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced it will launch a $1.5 billion campaign to eliminate outbreaks of bacterial meningitis across Africa by 2030. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 50 million...
Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football, will announce the African Super League on Wednesday with $100 million in prize money. The project has been in the pipeline since it was first proposed...