Anzisha Prize Announces Their Top 20 Young African Entrepreneurs For 2019

Meet Africa’s youngest entrepreneurs whose ideas are reimagining the future of the continent JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 16th, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- After months of...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

– Largest ever debut Samurai Loan for an African Issuer – The facility raised US$ 233 million and JPY 1 billion – Advances AFC’s objective of...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

South Africa: Punish Xenophobic Violence

At least 12 Dead, Thousands Displaced JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 13, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The South African police should take swift action to end xenophobic attacks targeting...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

Ending AIDS is everyone’s business

By Gunilla Carlsson, UNAIDS Executive Director, a.i. and Nancy Wildfeir-Field, President of GBCHealth GENEVA, Switzerland, September 13, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Over the past three decades,...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

ECOWAS Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross to...

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 11, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The ECOWAS Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are strengthening their cooperation on...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

Nigeria: Military Holding Children as Boko Haram Suspects

Thousands Have Been Held in Deplorable Conditions ABUJA, Nigeria, September 11, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Nigerian military has arbitrarily detained thousands of children in degrading and inhuman...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

Launching of 2020 Mandela Washington Fellowship For Young African Leaders Application

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, September 12, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The 2020 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders application will be opened on September...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council to meet on Terrorism in the...

ABUJA, Nigeria, September 11, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Mediation and Security Council of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

Mali : un expert de l’ONU plaide pour la révision de...

L’Expert indépendant des Nations Unies sur la situation des droits de l’homme au Mali a invité,  mardi à Genève, les autorités maliennes à...

Republic of Mauritius becomes Africa Finance Corporation’s 23rd Member State

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, September 11th 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Republic of Mauritius (“Mauritius”) has become the twenty-third (23rd) member state of Africa Finance Corporation...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

More funds needed to counter ‘persistent and multi-faceted humanitarian problems’ in...

Ethiopia is beset by “persistent and multi-faceted humanitarian problems”, the United Nations relief chief said on Tuesday, calling for more international funding as well...
AFC closes Debut Dual Currency Samurai Term Loan Facility

Signing of MOU between the AU, government of Rwanda and UNHCR

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, September 10, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA WHAT: Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the...