March, 2022

• 28 March

  What you should know about the new terminal at Lagos airport

  

  President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the new Terminal 2 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on 22 March. The new building is expected to make travelling through the airport much more a delightful experience as it promises enhanced passenger comfort. Terminal 2 has 5 baggage collection carousels/Photo: ChannelsTV Here’s what you should know about the international Terminal 2: It …

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• 28 March

  Ethiopian appoints head of Togo-based airline its new CEO

  

  Ethiopian Airlines has named its chief operating officer, Mesfin Tasew, as the successor to CEO Tewolde Gebremariam, who is retiring early for health reasons. The carrier’s board Chairman, Girma Wake, told a news conference that Mesfin had been chosen to lead the group , effective 23 March 2022, after serving in his present post for 10 years on Thursday. He …

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• 25 March

  Applications Open for 2022 Africa’s Business Heroes Prize Competition

  

  ABH annually awards 10 outstanding entrepreneurs from across Africa with a share of a US$1.5 million grant

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• 25 March

  Support group for Africans from Ukraine launches in Germany

  

  Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, about 4 million Ukrainians and people of other nationalities resident in the country have been seeking refuge in European countries, according to the UN refugee agency. Among the refugees are Africans and Asians, many of whom are students, who are resident in Ukraine. Non-Ukrainians fleeing the war have …

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• 23 March

  Musa’s Return to The Gambia after Seven Years in Europe

  

  A migrant’s personal story of return, resolution and resilience Tübingen – It’s a warm summer day in 2021. Musa Coker sits in the office of his return counsellor. He has visited the small office in Southwest Germany multiple times this year, seeking information, advice and counsel and discussing his return to The Gambia, his country of origin. Today, Musa will …

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• 22 March

  Nigeria scraps pre-departure COVID-19 tests for vaccinated travellers

  

  Fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Nigeria will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR COVID-19 test, the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, announced on Monday. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Federal Government, made the comment during a press briefing of the PSC in Abuja at which he announced a …

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• 21 March

  Google invites Black start-ups in Europe for grant funding

  

  Black founders in Europe disproportionately lack access to the networks and capital needed to grow their businesses. In 2020, with less than 0.5% of venture capital (VC) funding going to Black-led startups

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• 20 March

  Germany: COVID rules relaxed despite high infection rate

  

  The amended Infection Protection Act was passed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat on Friday, opening a new phase in the management of the coronavirus pandemic after two years. The previous protective measures will be replaced with effect from Sunday with significantly fewer regulations: no more masks in schools, shops and restaurants. They will only remain compulsory in nursing homes, clinics …

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• 18 March

  Germany launches information portal for refugees from Ukraine

  The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs (BMI) has launched a portal to provide information and orientation support to people seeking refuge in Germany from fleeing the war in Ukraine. “Germany4Ukraine.de is an information service for refugees from Ukraine. It provides them with a trustworthy, secure, digital contact point with the most important initial information after their arrival …

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• 17 March

  Germany-based African wins architecture’s global prize

  

  "There is still a feeling that everything that's local is primitive"

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