Africa Business Radio

  • Author: Vários
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We provide insights and analysis of the Africa Business Landscape across the 55 AU member states.

Episodes

  • EU, UK Fail To Agree Post-Brexit Fishing Quotas

    15/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    The EU and Britain failed to reach an agreement on how to divvy up post-Brexit fish quotas in shared waters from next year meaning provisional quotas will apply. EU fishing commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius says despite their best efforts to conclude in a timely manner, consultations with the UK on fishing opportunities for 2022 are still ongoing. He announced that the European Union fishing ministers had approved quotas from January 1, 2022, in EU waters extending into the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Black Sea. Slovenian Fishing Minister Joze Podgorsek says they haven’t reached an agreement with the UK and remain optimistic that it will be possible to reach it by the 20th of December. He says that provisional quotas with the UK on shared fishing stocks would remain in force until a new agreement was hammered out.

  • Tunisia President Announces Elections In 2022

    15/12/2021 Duration: 52s

    Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced that parliament will remain suspended until fresh elections are held a year from now. Mr Saied also laid out plans for a referendum on the constitution next year. Tunisian President Kais Saied has continued to cement his hold on power while stressing that his actions have been necessary to shake a corrupt political status quo and reinvigorate the failing economy. The president has set the date for a referendum on the constitution to take place next 25 July a year from the day he staged his dramatic seizure of full executive power.

  • Ethiopia Rejects Planned UN Human Rights Meeting

    15/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    Ethiopia has rejected a plan by the UN's top human rights body to hold a special session on Friday to discuss the human rights situation in the country. Ethiopia's foreign ministry says that it was perplexing and saddened by the UN Human Rights Council's decision to hold the session at the request of the European Union. The Ethiopian government called on member states of the UN rights body to reject and vote against the special session. The government says carrying out an investigation into the violations of human rights and atrocities committed by the TPLF terrorist group in Afar and Amhara regional states should be the priority at the moment. The UN rights council says the session will discuss the grave human rights situation in Ethiopia.

  • Kenyan Court Suspends Mandatory Vaccination Order

    15/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    A Kenyan court suspended a government order to prevent those who are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from accessing services and entering public places such as national parks, bars and restaurants. High Court judge Antony Mrima however suspended the order pending a hearing of the case filed by a businessman who termed the directive tyrannical and a gross violation of the constitution. Campaigners including Human Rights Watch have criticised the directive as discriminatory and urged the government to abandon the plan, which also requires visitors from Europe to provide proof of full vaccination. The health minister Mutahi Kagwe however defended the order saying it was the government’s duty to protect the rights of the vaccinated from exposure to infection.

  • US Impose Visa Restrictions On Congolese Over Wildlife Trafficking

    15/12/2021 Duration: 52s

    The US State Department says the United States has targeted eight people from the Democratic Republic of Congo with visa restrictions for their suspected role in illegal wildlife or timber trafficking. The State Department says the eight Congolese nationals had been sanctioned under Washington’s Immigration and Nationality Act, which means they could be barred entry to the United States. It says the act targets wildlife and timber traffickers who are believed to be, or have been, complicit in or involved in trafficking in wildlife, wildlife parts, or products.

  • Nigeria To Receive $210 Million Loan For Agricultural Sector

    15/12/2021 Duration: 54s

    The African Development Bank says it will lend Nigeria $210 million to support smallholder farmers producing strategic crops and livestock. AfDB says the funding is the first loan under an AfDB programme designed to reduce logistics costs. The programme is targeting seven states in Nigeria initially before being extended to 17 other African nations. The bank says the project will support Nigeria’s efforts to raise agricultural productivity, promote investment, create wealth and jobs and transform rural areas into corridors of economic prosperity.

  • Nigerian Lawmakers Approve Buhari’s Request For $5.8billion Loan

    15/12/2021 Duration: 47s

    The House of Representatives has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s loan request of 5.8 billion dollars and grant of $10 million. The loans are to be sourced from the World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, China Exim bank, Chinese Africa Development Fund, and International Fund for Agricultural Development. The House asked that the terms and conditions of the loan from the funding agencies be forwarded to the National Assembly for proper execution and commendation.

  • Nigeria’s Security Adviser Names Groups Supporting Terrorist Organisations

    15/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    The National Security Adviser, Retired Major-General Babagana Monguno, has named some groups supporting terrorist organisations in the Sahel region. Monguno says terrorism and the rapid escalation of violent activities by militant Islamist groups in the Sahel since 2016 have been primarily driven by the Islamic State in Greater Sahara which mainly operates in Mali and extends to the Niger Republic and Burkina Faso. He says It is bolstered by activities of groups such as Jama’at Nasr al-Islam Wal Muslimin, the Islamic and Muslim Support Group and ISGS, which have continued to pose an imminent threat to the stability of the region. He added that there is a need to reassess and reset foreign and regional government strategies towards the Sahel and set aside faulty assumptions.

  • UK Government Removes Nigeria From Covid Red List

    15/12/2021 Duration: 49s

    The UK government has removed Nigeria and 10 other countries from a red list in the wake of the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19.  The red list was reintroduced in late November as a precaution after the emergence of the Omicron variant. The ministers however have cited the further spread of the variant as a reason for reviewing travel rules. All UK arrivals from red list countries must take COVID tests within 48 hours of setting off for the UK and PCR tests within two days of their arrival.

  • UK Steps Up Efforts To Combat Omicron Spread

    13/12/2021 Duration: 54s

    Britain announced additional measures to stop the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, including the extension of booster jabs to people over 30. The Department of Health and Social Care says Fully vaccinated contacts of people who test positive for Covid-19 will be required to take daily lateral flow tests for seven days from Tuesday. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the Omicron variant is quickly gaining ground in the UK and is expected to become the dominant strain by mid-December. Javid says anyone eligible for a booster should get it as soon as possible.

  • WHO Say Omicron Spreads Faster Than Delta Variant

    13/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    The World Health Organization says the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the Delta strain and reduces vaccine efficacy but causes less severe symptoms according to early data. The WHO says Omicron had spread to 63 countries as of December 9. The faster transmission was noted in South Africa, where Delta is less prevalent, and in Britain, where Delta is the dominant strain. It however stressed that a lack of data meant it could not say if Omicron’s rate of transmission was because it was less prone to immune responses, higher transmissibility or a combination of both. The WHO says early evidence suggests Omicron causes a reduction in vaccine efficacy against infection and transmission.

  • Australia, South Korea Sign $717m Defence Deal

    13/12/2021 Duration: 59s

    Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have signed a $717m defence deal. The new defence deal allows South Korean defence company Hanwha to provide the Australian army with artillery weapons, supply vehicles and radars. It is the largest defence contract struck between Australia and an Asian nation and comes at a time of heightened tensions between Australia and China. Morrison says the new defence contract would create about 300 jobs in Australia, where a division of Hanwha operates. He says the contract signed speaks volumes about what they believe are the capabilities of the Korean defence industry.

  • G7 Warns Of Massive Consequences If Russia Invades Ukraine

    13/12/2021 Duration: 51s

    British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says Russia faces massive consequences if it invades Ukraine at a meeting of top diplomats from the G7 group of leading industrialised nations. Truss says there was a very much a united voice from the G7 nations being very clear that there will be massive consequences for Russia in the case of an incursion into Ukraine. US intelligence assesses that Russia could be planning a multi-front offensive on Ukraine as early as next year, involving up to 175,000 troops.

  • US Imposes Visa Restrictions On Africa's Richest Woman

    13/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    The US has imposed visa restrictions on Isabel dos Santos, often described as Africa's richest woman, for her involvement in significant corruption by misappropriating public funds for her personal benefit. A statement from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says her name appears among a list of other people from across the globe accused of corruption who are facing US sanctions. Mr Blinken's statement does not go into details about what Ms Dos Santos is accused of having done. The documents showed how she and her husband were allowed to buy valuable state assets in a series of suspicious deals. Ms Dos Santos said the allegations against her were entirely false and that there was a politically motivated witch-hunt by the Angolan government.

  • France Opens Algerian War Archives In Goodwill Gesture

    13/12/2021 Duration: 52s

    French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot has announced her country will soon allow access to archive records related to criminal investigations during the Algerian War. The classified documents are deemed to contain state secrets and it is hoped will help historians and researchers unravel a lot of cases of missing people and killings of Algerians under the French colonial administration. The North African country had recalled its ambassador to Paris and closed its airspace to French military flights in October over comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron.

  • Tigray Rebels Recapture Ethiopian Heritage Town

    13/12/2021 Duration: 48s

    Reuters and the AFP news agency has reported that Tigray rebels have recaptured the north Ethiopian town of Lalibela less than two weeks after government forces and their allies took control of the UNESCO World Heritage town. Residents say Tigrayan fighters are in the town centre, there’s no fighting adding that they appeared to have come from the east, in the direction of Waldia. They said the population are scared adding that most of the people already left because there might be an act of revenge.

  • West African Leaders Call For Mali Polls In February

    13/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    West African leaders called for military-ruled Mali to hold elections in February and threatened further sanctions in January if Bamako fails to make any commitment towards returning to democracy. President of the West African ECOWAS bloc Jean-Claude Brou says the heads of state decided to keep the deadline of February 27, 2022, for elections in Mali adding sanctions would be imposed in January if Mali did not move to stage polls. The head of Mali’s transitional government, Colonel Assimi Goita justified postponing the election and holding a national consultation which he said would be indispensable for peace and stability. Goita emerged as Mali’s strongman leader after a coup that toppled former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020

  • Western Leaders Urged to Declare Insurgents As Terrorists

    13/12/2021 Duration: 53s

    The federal government says that it was continuing to put pressure on its western allies to proscribe bandits, Boko Haram and the Indigenous People of Biafra as terrorists. The government says that doing so would severely reduce the funding for the groups, noting that it was doing all within its powers to ensure that a stop is put to the killings throughout the country. The presidential spokesman says the economic instability that the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked has further proven an effective recruitment tool for bandits and terrorists across the nation in particular and the African continent as a whole.

  • US Cancer Experts Reveals New Clinical Approaches to Patient Care

    13/12/2021 Duration: 54s

    The United States Embassy has revealed that over the past two weeks it had helped connect oncology specialists from the US and Nigeria to help strengthen the capacity of cancer treatment and care in Nigeria. A statement by Prof. Cindy O’Bryant of the University of Colorado and Prof. Donald Harvey of Emory University conducted training and shared best practices with their Nigerian counterparts in both Abuja and Lagos. They also discussed early detection and prevention, enhanced delivery of care, and strengthening institutional support for patient-centred care models.

  • Nigerian National Petroleum Company Records ₦141.96bn Trading Surplus

    13/12/2021 Duration: 01min

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has announced a huge leap in trading surplus of ₦141.96billion recorded in June 2021 compared to a deficit of ₦37.46billion in May 2021. The June 2021 figures of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report shows operating revenue as compared to May 2021, decreased by 9.07% or N89.27billion to stand at N894.64billion. Similarly, expenditure for the month decreased by 29.32% or N299.44billion to stand at N721.93billion. The report also noted that the increase in trading surplus was due mainly to the increased sales of crude oil and gas by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company and the increased gas sales and depreciation postings by the Nigerian Gas Company.

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