LAGOS, Nigeria (MNTV) – On a narrow stretch of Lagos coastline, Nigerian conservationist Chinedu Mogbo is leading a determined community effort to save endangered sea turtles threatened by pollution, poaching, and rapid urban growth. Through his organization, the Greenfingers Wildlife Conservation Initiative, Mogbo has rescued and rehabilitate...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (MNTV) – Sudan and Egypt have agreed to expand cooperation in healthcare as Sudan’s conflict-driven humanitarian crisis deepens. Sudan’s Health Minister Haitham Ibrahim Awadallah met his Egyptian counterpart Khaled Abdel Ghaffar in Cairo to discuss emergency support, epidemic control, and capacity-building in Sudan’s health sec...
NAIROBI, Kenya (MNTV) — Kenya is positioning itself as a continental leader in artificial intelligence (AI) education through its AI Skilling Initiative (AINSI), a government-backed program designed to strengthen digital capabilities and prepare the workforce for Africa’s rapidly expanding tech-driven economy. With AI projected to create up to...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (MNTV) — Somali leaders, researchers, and humanitarian experts have urged the development of locally driven, research-backed strategies to tackle the country’s escalating climate and disaster challenges, emphasizing national self-reliance as global aid declines. The appeal was made during the ongoing Somali Resilience Confer...
ASWAN, Egypt (MNTV) — Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty met with his Somali counterpart Abdusalam Abdi Ali to discuss strengthening bilateral relations and advancing plans for the deployment of Egyptian troops to the African Union’s Support and Stability Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). The meeting took place on the sidelines of the fifth A...
MAPUTO, Mozambique (MNTV) — Mozambique and Algeria have agreed to expand cooperation across the energy, gas, and renewable sectors, following high-level talks between Mozambique’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Estevão Tomás Rafael Pale, and Algeria’s Minister of Energy and Renewable Energies, Mourad Adjal, in Maputo. The meeting fo...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (MNTV) — Sudan’s Defense Industries System has signed a new $230 million defense agreement with Pakistan, reviving a deal that was suspended earlier this year due to political and technical hurdles, officials confirmed. The Sudanese delegation, led by General Mirghani Idris, director of the Defense Industries System, who remain...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (MNTV) — Burkina Faso’s military government announced the arrest of eight members of a humanitarian organization, including three Europeans, on charges of “spying and treason.” Security Minister Mahamadou Sana said those detained were part of the Netherlands-based International NGO Safety Organization (INSO), which su...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (MNTV) — Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms, volunteer networks risking their lives to feed and protect civilians caught in war and famine, have been awarded Norway’s Rafto Prize for human rights work. The award was announced as Sudan endures a devastating conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that e...
PRETORIA, South Africa (MNTV) — Nigeria and South Africa are working to reshape their economic ties by moving beyond oil and gas, identifying non-oil sectors as key to correcting trade imbalances between Africa’s two largest economies. Speaking in Pretoria to fellows of the MTN Media Innovation Programme, Nigeria’s Acting High Commissioner Ale...
