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TANZANIA Tourist Board (TTB) and the Embassy of China in Tanzania have signed the postcards that will be used to promote Tanzanian tourism in China. TTB Chairman, Justice Thomas Mihayo said the aim of using the postcards was to symbolize the love and kindness of the Chinese people when they could not travel abroad due to the Covid-19 outbreak. "I would...

After over a month of closure, commercial traffic on the road between Cameroon's port city of Douala and the Central African Republic (CAR)'s capital Bangui resumed on Tuesday. The decision came after a meeting on Monday between CAR government officials and the UN peacekeeping mission which agreed to accompany convoys transporting goods from Cameroon into the war-torn country. "In agreement with...

The last batch of twenty-eight newly made advanced drilling rigs that is under an R2 billion multiple-year contracts with Rosond, a mining services company, is being transported to Kumba iron ore located at the Northern Cape. It is expected that the new range will become operational in 2021. Rsond secured a tender that will see it develop and implement a...

The Director-General of the Nigeria Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Kashifu Abdullahi, believes that Nigerian start-ups on Information Technology can generate $30 billion in 10 years. He projected this at the Africa Investment Forum, at the ongoing Gulf Innovation and Technology Exhibition (GITEX) 2020, holding in the UAE, at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC). Speaking on the situation,...

In reacting to the second influx of Covid-19 pandemic, Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called upon all African nations to adopt best practices, systems, strategies and recommendations to handle the Covid-19 pandemic. In an emergency response and preparedness meeting, the Africa CDC says the measures that will be taken should take a balance between sparing lives...