WASHINGTON DC, November 6, 2009 ( CISA)- Botswana has been ranked the most peaceful nation in Sub-Saharan Africa followed by Malawi during a Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations in Washington DC, USA.
African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless information dissemination on the continent.
POLITICAL events happening over the past two weeks have been so quick it took some time to understand them.
Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region.
Charles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo on the country, and of using him as a scapegoat by falsely accusing him of responsibility for the flow of arms into the country. Mr. Taylor also denied widespread press and investigative reports that the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, traded diamonds with Sierra Leonean rebels under ...
IT appeared that I was one of the last persons to hear about it in my neighbourhood. It could also be that I had heard it before only that I paid it no attention at all apparently as part of an acquired defence mechanism against being 419ned.
A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps."
Maina Njenga yesterday warned that he may not be in full control of the sect as a new leader might emerge to replace him.
Efforts to boost rail transport and reduce the burden on Nigerian roads got underway yesterday as Federal Government signed a N12.3 billion contracts agreement with China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the rehabilitation of Lagos-Jebba rail line project.
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mrs. Farida Waziri has accused America of "creating a safe haven for looted funds."
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) last night ended its boycott of the new unity government but will give President Robert Mugabe a month to fully implement a power- sharing deal, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said.
Even when Guinea is not facing political crisis and reeling from a massacre, daily life is gruelling for many and instability is never far away.
The United Kingdom Border Agency has suspended scheduled deportation flights for failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers, following strong protestations by the MDC-UK.
Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has once again threatened an "incendiary revolution", because of the alleged "theft of votes" in last week's general elections.
Africans "should dare to imagine an African world not defined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund but one that comes out of Africa". This is necessary for Africans to grow out of dependence and become the agents of their own development.
