Abidjan, Cote d rsquo;Ivoire, 27 June 2017 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced the appointment of Ms. Oley Lucretia Clara Dibba-Wadda as Director of Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development with effect from July 1, 2017. A citizen of the Republic of The Gambia, Ms. Dibba-Wadda is a social development executive and strat ...

Brazzaville, 27 June 2017 ndash; Partnerships and stronger collaboration are critical for better access to quality, affordable healthcare for everyone in Africa. This was a key message at the first Africa Health Forum launched by the World Health Organization in Africa and the Government of Rwanda in Kigali today. In his opening remarks, ...

BBC Swahili launched on 27th June 1957 and will be celebrating its Diamond Jubilee this week. Special programming will be available throughout the week to recognise this impressive milestone. Celebration editions of AMKA na BBC (radio) and Dira ya Dunia (TV and radio) will look at how far BBC Swahili has come over its long history. This ...

Ostrava (Czech Republic) (AFP) - South African track sensation Wayde van Niekerk vowed to get ridiculous when he competes in the little-run 300m at Wednesday's Golden Spike meet in Ostrava. The world and Olympic 400m champion, who broke Michael Johnson's long-standing world record when winning gold in Rio, said he would do everything to break ...

Paris (AFP) - Former British mercenary Simon Mann, who led a failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea, has accused US billionaire George Soros of since plotting to overthrow its president, in testimony at a high-profile trial in Paris. He also accused William Bourdon, a lawyer for the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International, of being part of ...

Madrid (AFP) - A boy travelled at least 230 kilometres from Morocco to Spain hanging underneath a bus, officials said on Monday, in another example of desperate measures taken by migrants to get to Europe. Emergency services in the southern Spanish city of Seville tweeted a video of the boy being led away from a bus they said came from Tangier, ...

Niamey (AFP) - Twenty-four West African migrants were rescued and dozens more feared dead after traffickers deserted them in Niger's northern desert without food or water, a senior local official said. The migrants rescued on Sunday were part of a group of 70 people who had left in three vehicles from Agadez for Libya, Fatoumi Boudou, the pref ...