An ancient statue which was pulled from the mud in Cairo is not the Pharaoh Ramses II, but could be another king, Egypt's antiquities minister has said.
Egypt's general prosecution has referred Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou to the country's Economic Court on charges of violating local anti-monopoly rules.
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has pardoned 203 jailed protesters who have been sentenced for violating the abrogated protest law issued in November 2013.
This pardon...
Hard currency curbs imposed by Nigeria's central bank have helped boost local food production, central bank governor Godwin Emefiele was quoted as saying by two newspapers on Sunday.
Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
Egypt needs to implement economic reforms aimed at encouraging more private investment and moving away from subsidies towards targeted transfers for the poor, a senior World Bank official said on Wednesday.
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
