Retail and dining premises will have to shut by 21:00 each night for the next month to conserve power.

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that it will hold its 33rd Annual Meetings (AAM2026) at El Alamein in Egypt, from 21 to 24 June 2026. ......

Gulf tensions are sharpening the risks for African health systems already reliant on imported medicines, as disrupted shipping routes, higher freight bills and delayed emergency supplies expose how vulnerable the continent remains to external shocks while governments push to expand local drug production. The strain has moved beyond theory. Aid officials said this week that cholera supplies for countries including Chad and South Sudan were being held up because stocks stored in Dubai were caught in a logistics backlog linked to the conflict around Iran. The World Health Organization and relief agencies said alternative routes were proving more expensive, with some shipping costs rising by...

United States Congressman, Riley Moore, has reiterated his call for decentralisation of Nigeria's police force to allow state governments to take more responsibility for local security. ......

The government also asked all federal civil servants working at the federal secretariat complex to work from home on Friday. ......