Algeria, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa last week announced the formation of Group of Four Nations (G4) aiming to deal with various issues confronting Africa.

This is according to the recently released StartupBlink Ecosystem Index Report 2021, a global startup ecosystem map with tens of thousands of registered startups, co-working spaces, and accelerators.

As in the rest of the world, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 is casting a long shadow across Africa.

Palestinian Authority had urged union to withdraw Jewish state’s accreditation; diplomats say committee will be established to ‘study the issue’

Chairperson of the African Union Moussa Faki says restrictions must be imposed on those who are disturbing peace in South Sudan following a nearly four-year civil war in the African country.

The United Nations says poverty and state violence, not religion, are driving young Africans to join militant groups as a number of Takfiri extremist groups are wreaking havoc across the continent.

Voices reverberated across Africa in solidarity for Palestine on the annual International Al-Quds Day. With one-third of the world’s Muslim population in Africa, hundreds of thousands on the continent added their voices to global efforts towards Palestine’s liberation.
Al-Quds Day, initiated in 1979 and held on the last Friday of every Ramadan, inspires a humanitarian unity against Israel’s oppression of Palestine, according to Achmad Cassiem, a former South African political prisoner.
“Africa does not localize an important demonstration of such nature, but we share in it, as the pain is one all of Africa can identify with,” he told Anadolu Agency.

African leaders have endorsed a proposal by Kenya to push for withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Only dialogue can lead to a lasting solution, says African Union Commission chairwoman.

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The number of people believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus has surpassed 15,300, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Leaders of the world's most powerful economies have committed to provide all essential services to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The African Union (AU), African Development Bank, and the continent's top business leaders have established a crisis fund of more than $28 million aimed at helping nations hit by the deadly Ebola virus.

The World Health Organization has announced that two experimental vaccines to cure the fatal Ebola virus will be ready by 2015.

A prominent American health organization has issued a report predicting that up to 1.4 million people could be infected by the Ebola virus by next January if preventive measures do not prove effective soon.

UK government has announced plans to dispatch military and humanitarian experts to Sierra Leone to set up medical treatment centers in areas affected by the Ebola outbreak.

Medical charity group Doctors Without Borders has warned that the Ebola outbreak is moving faster than aid organizations can handle.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on governments to avoid panic and fear in the face of the threat posed by Ebola virus, which has so far killed more than 1,000 people.

Doctors without Borders (MSF) says risk-aversion and bureaucracy are increasingly preventing international aid agencies from helping the world’s most desperate people in emergency situations.

Colonialist governments are spreading war across the African continent under the cover of battling terrorism, an analyst writes for Press TV.