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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- There on a stint of six-month holdup, citizens of Rwanda of all epochs showed into boulevards across Kigali as the Car Free Day eventually put back on Sunday, September 20th 2020 obeying the Ministry of Sports’ announcement a week before. The bi-monthly bodily group sports exercise was among sports workouts which were rescinded in March to restrict the spread of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic ( Covid-19) after the first case was recorded in Rwanda in March 2020. Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju – Rwanda’s Sports Minister and the Rwandan City Mayor – Pudence Rubingisa were among the participants of Sunday’s Car Free Day, as a segment of people cheerily retired from Amahoro National...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Kenyan Government through the Ministry of Energy (MOE) launched the Kenya National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (KNEECS or The Strategy), placing Kenya firmly on track toward sustainable consumption and production including renewable energy generation. The Strategy was developed in collaboration with key stakeholders including Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) with support from World Bank and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). To date, Kenya has made significant progress in energy efficiency and conservation. In 2006, MOE and KAM signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Centre for Energy Efficiency and Conservation (CEEC). Its activities include undertaking energy audits of...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- South Africa has pledged 10.5 billion rand ($650 million) to South African Airways (SAA), one of the administrators of the ailing state-owned airline said on Friday. The administrators took control of SAA in December after almost a decade of financial losses and have been trying to keep it alive as the coronavirus pandemic compounds its longstanding problems. Administrators published a restructuring plan in June, more than 10 billion rand required to work has not materialized since the airline’s creditors approved it in July. Siviwe Dongwana told a creditor meeting called to discuss the funding issue on Friday: “We have since received a further communication from government with the support of the National Treasury that...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- It left with a dance of two African competitors – Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Kenya’s Amina C. Mohamed that tossed it to the record of five hopefuls that will progress to the succeeding level of assigning the successive Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Egypt’s Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh, didn’t make it to the following stride. David Walker – the General Council Chair of New Zealand and his two co-facilitators in the nomination procedure divulged a list of five members who will move forward in the successive level, bringing the list down from eight aspirants. Aloof from the two Africans, others who maintained the largest and deepest reinforcement from the WTO membership comprise Yoo...