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"Lifting up successful models" of democracy in Africa encourages more democracy on the continent, President Barack Obama told AllAfrica Thursday, explaining why he chose the West African nation of Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African country he would visit next week as President of the United States.
No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.
A day ahead of this year’s African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town of Sirte. Reports emerging from those who attended threw up few surprises and some lingering concerns.
African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Africa.
Gayle Smith, a senior foreign policy adviser to President Obama and senior director for relief, stabilization and development at the National Security Council, addressed the closing plenary of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria's annual conference in Washington DC. Excerpts from her speech: Thank you so much for inviting me here. I want to start off by saying ...
The current global financial crisis exposed governance crisis among financial institutions whose board rooms had been politicized to some extent that, board independence had been compromised.
African leaders reached a compromise early Friday on the powers of a new regional Authority that will coordinate key policies but have little power to act without a mandate from member states.
This morning, family members, friends, comrades, colleagues and admirers of the late pan-African icon, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, will gather in Abuja to mark the 40th day of his death with a variety of events wound around a symposium on the theme, 'Don't Agonise, Organise! The life of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 1961-2009, and Pan-Africanism.
It was J.F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America that said, "Children are the most valuable resource and the best hope for the future." Little wonder that this century, which started with no right for the African child is winding up on the note of recognition and appreciation of children rights and concerted efforts to see such rights not only respected but also protected.
The arrival in Africa of the President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev last June 22, 2009 soon after that of the President of the Untied States of America strikes a significant note for the continent.
Late, late last Thursday night as we were about to leave the newsroom, after "putting to bed" the next day's issue of The Herald, Deputy Chief Sub Editor Rungano Gwanzura, sitting next to me, jerked in his chair in a way that only something least unexpected had caught his attention.
Michael Jackson's memorial service will hold Tuesday morning, in the Staples Centre, the 20,000-seat coliseum in downtown Los Angeles where Jackson rehearsed his show the night before he died.
AN EAST AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
Two years ago, in an interview with Ebony Magazine to mark the silver jubilee of "Thriller," the world's most successful music album, Michael Jackson declared: "I always want to do music that influences and inspires each generation. Let's face it, who wants mortality? You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live."
Barack Obama makes his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president of the United States next week, following a trip to Russia as well as to Italy, where he will participate in a meeting of industrialized nations known as the G8. AllAfrica's Charles Cobb, Jr., Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman went to the White House to explore President Obama's views on Africa in advance of his visit. The interview ...
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has reiterated that he supports the idea of regional political federation before an African political union.
As an African Union summit on agricultural investments opens in Libya, donors and non-profits are calling participants' attention to the role smallholder farmers - mostly women - can have in feeding their communities.
Under a new initiative international donors are backing Africa-based policy research to improve local decision-making on complex global issues with potentially enormous humanitarian consequences like food security and climate change.
Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reduce the subsidies that contribute to this catastrophe.
Researchers are launching a clinical trial with 1,500 people infected with onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Liberia, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo to test a remedy that could help stop transmission, according to drug manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and the World Health Organization (WHO).
With knowledge being an essential element in Africa's development process, a United Nations librarian has called on African governments to help narrow the digital divide.
RUNAWAY FOOD PRICES GAVE the world a wake-up call last year. Two weeks ago, another alarm went off: UN food agencies reported that the world's hungry have surpassed one billion in number. At least 265 million of these are in sub-Saharan Africa - an increase of almost 12 per cent over last year.
Starting July 3, you are invited to send a text message to President Barack Obama with your questions and comments in advance of his visit to Africa.
For every generation there are leading lights: men and women, who through sheer vision, consummate professionalism and exemplary character stand head and shoulders above their peers. And as beacon bearers they point the way forward to a society whose values have been darkened by timidity, deprivation and bigotry.
A drug normally used in animals will be tested for its ability to control river blindness transmission in clinical trials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana and Liberia.
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