International

Maputo — The French oil and gas company Total has announced that it is suspending resumption of work on building natural gas liquefaction plants in the Afungi Peninsula, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Total heads a consortium exploiting the offshore natural gas resources in Area One of the Rovuma Basin. The project,…

It's estimated that 90% of the world's trade is transported by sea. As consumers, we rarely give much thought to how the things we buy make their way across the planet and into our homes. That is, until an incident like the recent grounding of a huge container ship, the Ever Given, in the Suez…

The Executive Committee of the CAF, meeting today in Yaounde, has made dark hours to President Ahmad Ahmad, recently re-installed at the head of CAF after the decision of the CAS. Indeed, the members of the executive committee insistently requested and obtained the withdrawal of Ahmad Ahmad for the remaining three quarters of the executive committee meeting. Discussions were very …

When President-Elect Joe Biden takes office next month, the @POTUS Twitter account will be wiped of its followers, The Verge reports. As Biden’s digital director Rob Flaherty revealed on Twitter, the social media platform has informed Biden’s team that the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts will start with zero followers. By contrast, the Trump administration’s official accounts “absorbed” all of Obama’s followers when he took office roughly four years ago, …

A new strain of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom (UK) and has forced several countries to suspend flights to Britain. Scientists are studying the mutation pattern of the virus to know the new variant better. Here is what we know so far about the new fast-spreading variant: Britian’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while announcing a strict …