African Initiative – news agency

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed on 14 August in El Alamein the possibility of establishing a Turkish industrial zone in Egypt and prospects for resuming maritime links between the two countries, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry press service s...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, which make up the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), have agreed to create a common mechanism for managing natural resources. Energy, mining and petroleum ministers from the three countries discussed its development at a meeting in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso government press service

Uganda’s Minister of State for Urban Development Margaret Muhanga Mugisa has proposed reviving the idea of moving the capital from Kampala to Nakasongola, where the authorities could build a new city from scratch, NTV Uganda reported on 13 August, citing the minister’s remarks at a meeting of the par...

Togolese bloggers who recently visited Moscow as part of the Russia–Africa: New Media Meanings blog tour told residents of the capital Lomé about their trip, an African Initiative correspondent reports.

The meeting took place on 12 August at the office of the Association russo-to...

Russian Ambassador to South Africa Roman Ambarov met with South African filmmaker and traveller Johan Badenhorst, who travelled across Russia with his son in off-road vehicles over 70 days, from Murmansk to Magadan, the Russian Embassy said on 13 August.

The travellers used four-...