‘Game changer’ e-moped batteries spread from Taiwan across Asia
Taipei – Every day, Aiden Lee joins the hundreds of thousands of people getting around Taipei on two wheels.... Read more
24 Jan, 2022
Mali travellers stranded as West African sanctions bite
Bamako – A bus station in Mali’s capital stands unusually quiet, with foreign passengers left in limbo after West... Read more
12 Jan, 2022
Record cargo shipped through Egypt’s Suez Canal last year
Cairo – Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority said the key waterway netted record revenues last year, despite the coronavirus pandemic... Read more
3 Jan, 2022
Senegal railway opening overshadowed by compensation protest
Dakar – After five years’ work and at a cost of more than a billion dollars, Senegal’s capital city... Read more
24 Dec, 2021
Ivory Coast dockers end strike at Abidjan port
Abidjan – A strike by dockers paralysed the main port in Abidjan on Friday before their union suspended the... Read more
18 Dec, 2021
Ivory Coast dockers stike paralyses Abidjan port
Abidjan – A strike by dockers paralysed the port of Abidjan on Friday, the main facility through which Ivory Coast’s... Read more
17 Dec, 2021
Thousands of Ghanaians left stranded after commercial transport drivers go on strike over high fuel costs
Accra – Thousands of Ghanaian commuters, students and workers were stranded at bus stations across the country on Monday after... Read more
6 Dec, 2021
Senegal transport workers end strike
Dakar – Senegalese transport unions ended a strike overnight from Friday to Saturday that had paralysed capital Dakar and... Read more
5 Dec, 2021
Senegal streets empty as transport workers extend strike
Dakar – Senegal’s transport unions went on open-ended strike on Friday over alleged police harassment and illicit competition, paralysing the... Read more
3 Dec, 2021
Libya ferry on first passenger trip to Turkey in decades
Misratah – A ferry set sail on Wednesday from the Libyan port of Misrata to Turkey’s coastal city of Izmir,... Read more
2 Dec, 2021
